• Uncategorized

    Put wget On OS X

    To install wget on a Mac, first make sure you have Xcode installed. Then, create a place to do your installation from: mkdir ~/Desktop/wgetinstall; cd ~/Desktop/wgetinstall Then, curl it down from the gnu.org ftp servers: curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz Next, extract the tar file: tar xvf ~/Desktop/wgetinstall/wget-1.14.tar.gz Then cd into the wget directory: cd wget-1.14 And then let’s config: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl Then a standard make: make Then a typical make install: make install Now let’s make sure we know where it went: type -a wget And now let’s test wget —version And to test downloading: wget http://www.apple.com Then, clean up after your installer: rm -rf ~/Desktop/wgetinstall

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Install Fonts Using Apple Configurator

    I guess someone asked for it, although it wasn’t me… But you can install fonts on Apple devices, using Apple Configurator. To do so, first open Apple Configurator and click on an existing profile or create a new profile for the font installation. Scroll down in the list along the left sidebar until you see Font. Click on Font and then click on Configure. You are then presented with a dialog box to select a font file. Browse to the font you’d like to deploy and then click on Select. Click on the plus sign (+) in the upper right corner of the screen if you’d like to deploy more…

  • Microsoft Exchange Server

    Migrating Symantec Enterprise Vault SQL Tables

    If you use Symantec’s Enterprise Vault solution and you need to migrate the SQL tables for Enterprise Vault to another server, you might have noticed that it’s not as simple as dumping tables from one host, restoring tables to another and changing some information on the Enterprise Vault server. This process takes a lot of time and is a relatively painful endeavor. But now Symantec has made the process much simpler, releasing a migration tool just for the database, available here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support//index?page=content&id=TECH214373 I guess they were listening to customers who complained about the process. Good for them!

  • VMware

    vSphere: The Datastore Browser

    When you’re moving virtual machines around, you’ll frequently use a tool such as vMotion. But what happens when you’re trying to load new virtual machines into VMware from the .vmdks on a client system or trying to archive a virtual machine that isn’t actually destined for another host? You can use nfs or ssh to access an ESX host, but there’s an even simpler way: the Datastore Browser. To use the Datastore Browser, first login to the vSphere Client. If you’ll be archiving a virtual machine, from there, I would stop the virtual machine. Then click on the virtual machine in the sidebar and click on Summary to see the…

  • Home Automation

    Change Subtitle Language In Netflix On AppleTV

    My daughter is always finding features I’d never heard of. I’m sitting there, watching the Katy Perry movie with her. She hits some random buttons on the Apple TV remote and a screen comes up and then disappears as quickly as it appeared. A screen I’ve never noticed… Flash forward to later in the day and suddenly the subtitles for Lillyhammer are in Spanish. Now, my Spanish just isn’t as good as it used to be. So here I’m wanting to switch it to English. But, where’s the setting? I finally found it by browsing to Settings, then Audio & Video. Then browse to Closed Captioning and switch it to…

  • personal

    Productivity, Productivity, Productivity, SQUIRREL!

    I was working on an article, doing really well, getting some nice research done, then BAM, Notification Center tells me that a friend was having a beer down the street that happened to look totally nommers on Untappd. So I had to check it out for myself. How I feel about Notification Center today:

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  Network Infrastructure,  Ubuntu,  Unix,  VMware

    Quick nmap Hacks

    The nmap application is a pretty easy-to-use tool that can be used to port scan objects in a network environment. To obtain mmap in an easy-to-use package installer, for OS X check out the download page at http://nmap.org/download.html#macosx (use the same page to grab it for Windows or *nix as well). Once downloaded run the package/rpm/whatever. Before I scan a system, I like to pull the routing table and eth info to determine how scans are being run, which can be run by using the mmap command anong with the —iflist option: nmap —iflist Basic Scanning To then scan a computer, just use the mmap command followed by the host…