Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Booting a MacOSX machine from the network provides for an easy way to install and re-install the operating system. On MacOSX server, this feature can be enabled from a GUI, but the same effect can be achieved using open-source tools. One of the essential elements is a properly configured DHCP server.
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Some time ago I noticed that the console.log on my PowerMac desktop never seemed to got rotated, resulting in an overly large file. Reading up on the topic I discovered that rotation of the console.log is supposedly performed by loginwindow.app and not by the regular cron based rotation scripts, but this somehow seemed to fail.
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
It turns out rolling your own Firefox (and/or Thunderbird) really isn't that complicated, once you have the prerequisites in place. The biggest challenge is in creating your mozconfig, especially if you want an optimized universal build that can be run on both G5 and Mactel machines. Since I am always in for the extra challenge I also used distributed compiling, using distcc.
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If you are geek enough to actually format you MacOSX hard-disk using a case-sensitive file-system, then you will not be able to use the Facebook plugin. This is easily fixed:
open a terminal and execute the following commands:
$ cd /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/PlugIns
$ ln -sfn ../Plugins/Facebook.iPhotoExporter .
The plugin should now show up as a tab in Export...
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Traditionally Unix uses a passwd file to lookup user information. More recent versions use a separate shadow file for password storage. Although the passwords are not stored in cleartext, both methods do perform a security risk. On a reasonably large network this also provides a maintenance burden since all accounts need to be defined and maintained on each system.
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