Zterm is a terminal emulation package for the Mac. You can use it to interface with all those damn serial ports.
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Mac OS X: Need Full Disk Encryption?
Check out Check Point FDE for the Mac!
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Mac OS X: Forensics Group on Yahoo! Groups
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/macos_forensics/
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Mac OS X: Preferred Virus Software?
I prefer ClamXav, easy-to-use, light, with a good detection rate, and detects Win and Mac OS X virus. Others: . avast . iAntiVirus (virus for Mac OS X only) . Intego X5 . Norton . Mcafee . Sophos . CA
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Mac OS X 10.5: Disable Glass Shelf in Dock
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal For early Leopard adopters that don’t like the new look and feel of the dock, here’s a command to disable that Glass shelf look in your dock: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock If you would like to revert the setting: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO killall Dock click on the code and choose run to activate or deactivate this setting
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Login & Logout Hooks
If you want to have a script run when a user logs in and/or logs out then you’ll likely want to look into using login and logout hooks. A hook is a script that runs as root (although you can execute as the user with su). Hooks are enabled in the /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow. You can do so using defaults, writing the path to the script into LoginHook as a string as follows: defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /scripts/script.sh If you only want to run the script once (ie – at first login) then you can end the script with a defaults command that will then reset the field. defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook…
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Mac OS X 10.5: The New Terminal
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Apple has been slowly winning over a lot of traditional Unix and Linux converts. This new breed of switcher is after a cool shell environment. In Leopard, Apple has upgraded Terminal.app to provide a whole slew of new features that are sure to continue winning new converts. Let’s just take a look at a few of them: Secure Keyboard Entry – Prevent other applications from detecting keystrokes used in terminal. Enable this using the Terminal menu. Tabbed Interface – I always have 3 shell windows open. That’s how I roll. But with the new tabbed interface (which you can access using the Command-T keystroke) I find…
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Mac OS X 10.5: Solidifying the Top Menu Bar
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal In Leopard the Top Menu Bar is fairly transparent and will overlay on top of the background image. For those who want to disable it the following command will do so: write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 1 If you later start to miss this menu bar then you can undo this change by using the following command: defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 0
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: Introduction to Ruby on Rails
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal So Ruby on Rails… What does this mean for me and what exactly is Ruby on Rails from a systems administration standpoint? Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a web-based project-management tool, by the company 37signals. Ruby on Rails was first released to the public in July 2004. Ruby on Rails is a web application framework designed to support the development of dynamic websites. To see some sites built using Ruby on Rails check out http://happycodr.com Ruby is an object-oriented program language that Rails is built on. To access rails, you can use the rails command. The Ruby…
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Mac OS X 10.5: Using Unsupported Disks with Time Machine
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to use an unsupported disk type for your Time Machine archives, running the following command on workstations will allow you to do so: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1