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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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What do the numbers in launchctl list's status column mean?

launchctl has a "Status" column in the launchctl list output. The manpage or any of the related launchd manpages do not mention this column or what it means.
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How do I configure freeSSHd on Windows Server 2008 so I can log in using ssh?

I've installed freeSSHd on a Windows Server 2008 box (following the instructions in How to install an SSH Server in Windows Server 2008), including: created a user named "dspitzer" with NTLM authorization opened an exception for port 22 in the…
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DNS Name lookup (was SSH) Not Working After Snow Leopard Upgrade

I think this started with the Snow Leopard update. Cleaned out the .ssh directory, still having the issue. ~: uname -a Darwin california-example-com.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009;…
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Blocking the Apple OS X App Store

Being the evil corporate IT overlords we need to block the new OS X App Store. As you may be aware the 10.6.6 update installs the App Store App which allows users to download and install apps without admin privileges. Some Suggestions: Don't…
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How to add Postgres support to PHP installed by Homebrew?

I have already installed and configured new version of PHP with Homebrew, including MySQL support and XDebug. That works fine. However, I need to install the support for PostgreSQL as well. How can I do it? I have figured out it is easy when…
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Set DNS server on OS X even when without internet connection

I have installed, configured DNS server(local instance of Dnsmasq) which resolves to localhost as I want, all OK. When I go offline, it stops working, because OS X empty content of resolv.conf and ignore attempt to reflect changes in this file. Any…
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How do I start Apache Tomcat at boot on Mac OS X?

I observed that there is no full guide for installing tomcat on OS X that will include setting it up to start at boot time. Here is the quick guide: install macports suport port upgrade sudo port upgrade outdated. sudo port install tomcat6, or if…
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Is there an equivalent command for 'init.d/networking restart' in OS X

From time to time, I've encountered issues with OS X clients' network connections (Wired and Wireless, Leopard/Snow Leopard) where nothing will fix the issue, until you reboot. Is there a particular 'network service/process' I should be watching…
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VNC viewer not connecting to Mac from Windows

I have a VNC server running on a Mac. When I try to use a VNC viewer, it says "no matching security types". Is there any other software which can connect to a Mac like RDP? If iI use screen sharing from another Mac, then it works but not from…
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Fix for bash line-wrapping & backspace display bugs on Mac OS X?

When I open up Terminal (on Mac OS X 10.5.8) and type a long command line: ...the text doesn't go to the next line when it wraps around: Also, sometimes when I type a command and then backspace (or up-arrow or ^U): ...the entire line isn't…
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ssh hangs without password prompt -- works in root or other accounts

I had ssh key based login working fine. Then, I changed the hostname on my computer, and the key based login stopped working. Seemed to make sense. the keys probably relied on my old hostname. So, I deleted all of my keys and all the files in…
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DNS Server Responses and Timeouts

We're experiencing a frustrating problem on our LAN. Periodically, DNS queries to our ISP nameservers timeout forcing a 5 second delay. Even if I bypass /etc/resolv.conf by using a direct dig to one of our DNS servers, I still encounter the…
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What does @ mean in -rw-r--r--@?

-rw-r--r--@ 1 abc staff 1088808 8 31 09:55 marcus_gow Anyone knows this, what's it for?
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Mount an VHD on Mac OS X

Is it possible (how) to mount an VHD file created by Windows 7 in OS X? I found some information about how to do this on linux. There is a fuse fs "vdfuse" which uses virtualbox libs to mount filesystems supported by virtualbox. However I was unable…
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How to change Document Root for Apache2 in Mac OS X

The default location of Document root as per httpd.conf is /Library/WebServer/Documents. I want this location to be /webcontent. So to do that, I created a webcontent folder in root(/). Then in the httpd.conf: Changed the Document root line to…
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