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I do most of my work on Macs because I like having a full Unix operating system, I like having well-integrated graphical tools, I like having hardware that's highly integrated with the software, and I like having other people worry about the system administration. | I do most of my work on Macs because I like having a full Unix operating system, I like having well-integrated graphical tools, I like having hardware that's highly integrated with the software, and I like having other people worry about the system administration. | ||
From here you might find the following useful: | |||
* [[Notes on Setting up a Macintosh]] | |||
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Other places to look for cool Mac stuff: | Other places to look for cool Mac stuff: | ||
Revision as of 20:50, 4 March 2011
Notes on the Macintosh
I do most of my work on Macs because I like having a full Unix operating system, I like having well-integrated graphical tools, I like having hardware that's highly integrated with the software, and I like having other people worry about the system administration.
From here you might find the following useful:
Other places to look for cool Mac stuff:
- Hawk Wings' list of MacOS Plug-ins
- PHP5 for Mac
LaTeX on the Mac
Option #1: teTeX through MacPorts
sudo port install teTeX
Option #2: TUG's MacTex install
http://tug.org/mactex/
Other things you may want:
Fixing a corrupt cache
If your mac prints this:
dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
Try this:
sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force
Backing up a Mac
Although there are some nice programs like Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! for backing up Macs, here is an easy way to clone /dev/disk0s2 to /dev/disk1s2:
#!/bin/sh asr --source /dev/disk0s2 --target /dev/disk1s2 --erase --noprompt disktool -n disk1s2 backup
Changing the UID of a user
dscl . -change /Users/bob UniqueID 501 1000 chown -R 1000 /Users/bob
Create and mount an image on the mac
hdiutil create -size 1m foo.dmg -fs HFS+ -volname NIST1 -attach -plist hdiutil detach /Volumes/NIST1/
Disable a MacOS Service
Briefly, to turn a service off (in this case com.apple.wikid)
- sudo launchctl (you will get a prompt - launchd%)
- list (gets a list of all the services)
- stop com.apple.wikid (stops the wikid service)
- unload com.apple.wikid (removes the wikid service from launchd)
