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Why is a java application causing 100% CPU usage in Mac OS X Dock? [migrated]
I develop java applications using the Glassfish application server and when I deploy/undeploy applications the CPU usage of the Dock in Mac OS X shoots up to >100% and the system becomes unresponsive ...
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Do Mac OS X servers have a security mechanism that blocks a user if they log in from two different IPs?
A trusted friend and I had ssh'ed into a Mac OS X Web Server (either snow leopard or lion) from two different locations. Then my password stopped working when trying to log in.
I can safely rule out ...
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Bigbluebutton vs opennetmeetings [closed]
Which is better for my situation(i have a 30+ mac users , and for they i must provide the videoconferencing , desktop share,desktop control and mostly user using adsl )?
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Mac keeps on asking for password to delete files [migrated]
I have renamed my Mac username from root login. It was done successfully and I can see the new name of my home directory but certain folders in Mac HD have a red dot with a - symbol.
I tried to ...
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Setting up single sign-on between Mac client & OS X Server
I'm not "single sign-on" is the right terminology for what I'm trying to accomplish, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
We have a Mac OS X Server and Mac clients. Kerberos and Open Directory are ...
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Forward Http Request to different machine
I am working on a MAC machine and expected to use some of the Webservices which are present on a different network. The general way to access these webservices is through VPN to that network and then ...
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Creating a 'nix server to remote desktop from a Mac [closed]
For the last couple of months I've been using a Windows server with AWS to remote desktop into when I need a high-speed connection (big FTP transfers, connecting when Virgin Media fail in the UK) etc ...
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How to Set Up Network Profile Sharing/Single Sign On
I guess this would be the appropriate place to ask this sort of question. At university, our IT staff has set up network profiles, where you can use the same login credentials to gain access to any ...
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Can the MAC address(es) of a Windows XP machine be found in a backup of C:\Documents and Settings\ [migrated]
I recently had a Windows XP laptop stolen
I do not know its MAC addresses (wired or wireless)
I have managed to retrieve its wireless MAC from the WiFi router it was attached to, but I have no ...
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RDP with Mac and Server Essentials
Using Windows Server Essentials 2011, can a Mac connect through the remote web portal and (possibly using a third-party tool, if necessary), create a remote desktop connection to their work machine? ...
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Mac terminal command returns permission denied, ran again and it worked fine [migrated]
I ran the following command in the terminal of a Mac Pro running Mac OSX 10.6.8.
rm -rd /Users/Shared/SomeFolder
This command resulted in
rm: /Users/Shared/SomeFolder: Permission denied
Without ...
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Auto-Update Office for Mac using Apple Remote Desktop
We have approximately 20 Mac desktops in a Windows Server 2008 environment - that are managed with Apple Remote Desktop. These desktops have a variety of Office for Mac installations - Office 2008, ...
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Error when trying to install arm-elf-binutils using MacPorts
I'm trying to install arm-elf-binutils on my Mac using MacPorts.
I get the following error:
---> Computing dependencies for arm-elf-gcc
---> Dependencies to be installed: arm-elf-binutils
---> ...
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php.ini is not loading on my local machine mac os x
I have a localhost running on my mac osx machine, everything works fine apart from I get this error when running some applications:
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely ...
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Manually transfer MySQL databases
I have an external hard drive that has a non-bootable clone of an old machine (that I no longer have). One of the things that was present on that machine was a MySQL installation (v 5.5.19) with ...
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cisco: get mac address from cdp neighbors
I need to find out the MAC addresses and ports of devices connected directly to a Cisco switch, preferably via SNMP. the best way i found is with CDP neighbors, but i don't find the MAC addresses, ...
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Setting MTU Per Destination Host
I'd like to change the MTU per host as I have a mixed infrastructure where not all devices support the same MTU. I'm on OS X 10.7 and like to set some MTU per destination host and a default one.
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Trying to SCP from Local Mac to Amazon AWS Linux Machine
I am trying to copy a file from my local Mac to my Linux instance running on the Amazon EC2 / AWS Cloud.
I am able to connect to the server via Terminal, but am unable to get my file up to the ...
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Mac terminal login via SSH key without entering password.
I am trying to log into SSH using the terminal:
ssh root@example.com -p54 -i ~/.ssh/ssh_key
Custom port number 45.
Chmod 600 ssh_key.
I know that the SSH key works correctly because I can connect ...
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Polycom HDX7000 & Mac Lync 2010: Video call invitation was not accepted
We have a Lync 2010 server set up along side a Polycom HDX7000 which acts as a Lync endpoint. This works well for Windows Lync users who can dial and have video conferences with the device.
When a ...
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how to remove password from pdf documents? [closed]
I recently bought membership to a online course. It has hundreds of PDFs, and each PDF has a password, a DIFFERENT password at that. It is too late to get a refund, and I plan to use that knowledge ...
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Alternative to PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, possibly via USB?
Are there any decent ways to accomplish PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini (Core i5)? I need to be able to boot into CloneZilla over the network (as I want to image the Mac Mini's hard drive, and ...
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How do we get our Mac to stop generating lots of failed login attempts?
We have an Mac on our network which connects into our SBS 2008 server to get email through Exchange 2007 (SP2). Just recently this Mac has been logging up thousands of failed login attempts ...
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convert a machine from vmware esxi to vmware server?
I have a vmware esxi server, with various vm's.
I want to clone one of the vm's so I can run it locally on my macbook (either using Paralells or vmware player)
Is this possible?
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How stop a second apache server running on a local environment? [closed]
I've been using mamp for a while now and everything has been working great. Then today I go to start it up and mamp alert tells me that apache is already running on that port and to pick another one. ...
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Connect my mac to my external local asp server
In our office we have several PC's that network to a Windows 2003 Server so we can run local sites for testing etc and so we all have access to rather than have them on individual PC's.
We have a ...
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Copy Mac Server LDAP contents to OpenLDAP
Is it possible to copy all content from a Mac LDAP server (which is proprietary modified OpenLDAP). Doesn't matter if I have to do it by replication (which I think is even harder) or copying the ...
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What needs to be done/added on Apple MacBook Air in order to join domain and be managed?
We are a fully windows active directory company.
I now have a MacBook Air (first in company) - that needs to be connected. What are the things I need to install/set in order for me to be able to ...
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Corrupted Data when Transferring Files over Network from Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server to Windows 7 Server
Two servers. Mac OSX Snow Leopard, and a PC with Windows 7 as Server.
Either way, when the Mac attempts to add files to a shared windows folder, the data is sometimes corrupted and can't be read. ...
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Converting iptables command to ipfw
I am trying to convert code I made on ubuntu work with osx.
I do not know how to convert the iptables commands to ipfw commands.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ubuntu Code:
echo 1 > ...
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Network Time Machine backup server requirements
A significant portion of the users in our company use Macs, mostly MacBook Pros with a few iMacs and Airs thrown in for good measure. We're running a mixture of 10.6 and 10.7. So far we've been ...
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Remote printing with OS X Lion server
I am setting up small company network in combination with Apple's Open Directory. The server (Mac mini with OS X Server 10.7 installed) is hosted in a datacenter.
The company has 3 locations with ...
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How to configure a CISCO ASA to support the OS X VPN Client
Given that OS X now supports (natively) CISCO IPSec VPN connections I am wondering what the requirements for the VPN configuration are on the remote end?
I have evaluated a number of CISCO devices ...
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Mac clients intermittently wait minutes to connect to SMB shares
My Mac OS X (10.6 & 10.7) clients all intermittently but frequently experience extremely slow connection times to my Windows 2008R2 shares. From the Go To Server menu, they can enter an smb:// ...
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Running any version of OS X on a PC [closed]
A common problem for a lot of people I would think, I need to run OS X on my Windows PC virtually because I need to use the VPN client 'Apple Connect' that is only supported on Macs. It does not ...
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Apache mod_perl
I've tried to use mod_perl in apache that comes with Mac OS X 10.6.
To do that I add the following line in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so
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Browsing by DNS name not working, everything else is [closed]
Running on a Snow Leopard MacBook air, can't browse the web (in any browser, tried FF,Chrome,Safari) using DNS names that are either already cached in DNS or not. Browsing to google.com or ...
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ssh connection refused only from my mac, my linux box connects without issue
I am having a strange issue. I have an EC2 server (Arch Linux) that I am able to access (via ssh) from my local linux server without issue, however when I try to ssh into my EC2 server from my ...
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how to install mac os in compaq cq40 144tu? [closed]
Currently I have installed Windows 7 in my laptop.
I tried some of the options in internet but i failed.
I want to install mac os on a vmware inside win 7.
Please guide me achieve this!
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ssh public/private key login on mac server
i have configured /etc/sshd_config on mac server with these options
PermitRootLogin without-password
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
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Easiest way to sync two folders
What's the easiest way to sync the contents of a folder on a Mac OSX machine with another folder on a Linux server?
You can use scp:
scp -r /path/to/folder/ username@IP_ADDRESS:/path/to/sync/with
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Connect 2 computers to create nodes
I have PC and Mac. On both of them I've installed Apache. Is it possible to connect them, so Mac will be able to connect to PC(and vice versa), and get file from Apache(so ie. ...
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mac client on webdav server iis 7.5 - ntlm problem
I'm setting up a webdav file server on a windows 2008 r2 (IIS 7.5).
I can use http only, as https is already in use by a specific software running on it proprietary web server that will not 'share' ...
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How to get rid of a phantom folder in Mac Os?
I have a weird folder in my home directory. It's called "..Copied!" This name probably comes from an unfortunate period of time when I had overridden pwd in my bash profile. I learned my lesson and ...
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Why is this Python process running on my Mac OS X Server?
Any way to see what started this process and why?
$ ps -e
PID TTY TIME CMD
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41 ?? 0:00.55 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.
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MySQL running but not connecting to Drupal Database.
Our School Drupal site died after upgrade. MySQL is running but cannot connect to database. MyphpAdmin returns Error 2002.![Screenshot of MySQL activity.][1] Drupal 6.22 (after attempted upgrade) with ...
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What is the industry standard solution for linux web server and mac file server failover systems?
I am a web developer at my company and am therefore qualified to be an IT guy, apparently. I have a single Ubuntu web and file server currently, but I want to break up the server tasks onto two ...
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Best way to get the MAC of eth0?
Is there a more efficient way to retrieve the MAC address of a NIC in Linux?
This works:
ip link show dev eth0 | awk ' /link\/ether/ { print $2 }'
but can it be found via something like:
cat ...
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“Server preferences” Infinite loading on Snow leopard server
Workgroup Manager & all other services are OK.
But could not access users & groups on Server Preferences panel with infinite loading. (please see below URL)
http://twitpic.com/6dh1s7
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Hosts file map localhost to existing domain not subdirectory* updated
I am locally developing a website via MAMP and rather than messing with the changing all of my links and etc later on I opened up etc/hosts and added this line 127.0.0.1 localhost mysite.com so ...
