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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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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 ---> Building arm-elf-binutils Error: Target…
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Windows XP cannot execute binary file on Network Share

I'm having a Network Share provided by a Mac OS X Lion Server on a recent Mac Mini Server (CIFS / SMB); mounting the share in Windows (XP) is no problem, reading and writing neither. But when ever I try to execute an executable .exe, Windows…
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Installing MySQL 5.5.19 with Macports

The MySQL packages currently available on Macports are up to date for branch 5.1, but for 5.5 they are quite old (the latest one available is 5.5.2). Is there some way to install the latest one at this moment (5.5.19)? Why is the package so old?
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Java class path completely ignored (OS X)

I'm trying to run a jar that is located at /Library/Java/jack.jar, this works: java -jar /Library/Java/jack.jar However, I want to run it without the path, relying on the class path. The default class path includes /Library/Java, but this fails…
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Sending emails to nobody (OS X)

For some reason I want to be able to send emails to literally nobody. I mean that if I use mail nobody and send something, I want the email to be immediately discarded. Completely ignored. How can I do that? I tried making symlink in…
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OSX Lion SFTP Chroot

I am looking to allow my SFTP users on my OSX Lion box to be chrooted so they cannot see anything else. I know about the usual changes in the sshd_config that match the user and set the chroot directory. My issue is that the users cannot write to…
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Command: mysql --print-defaults not recognized?

I am trying to set some defaults in my.cnf and when I tried to check MySQL's current defaults I got an error! Using Zend Server CE 5.5 on OSX 10.6.8 And here is the command and subsequent error: $ mysql…
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How to monitor a network device which is on it's own local network attached to a publicly reachable machine

I would like to monitor a network device (a disarray) which is attached to a server with its own local network (10.0.0.x). The server is reachable from another private space (172.16.x.x). I can do snmpwalk between my monitoring server and the…
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Apache / PHP server delaying for a minute before responding

Am having the strangest issue with an apache/PHP instance (PHP 5.2 in this case), where it will take over a minute to respond to a request. The PHP profiling is saying it's taking less than a second to actually generate the response, there just…
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Is ._ (dot underscore) from Mac OS X?

I'm cleaning up some files that have been handled by Mac OS X. This is also the destination for FTP transfers. I know about .DS_Store files. However I'm seeing some ._XXXX files, ie. files that are prefixed with a dot and an underscore. Is that some…
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VPN/AFP server for centralized TimeMachine backups

I am a sysadmin for a small group of about 7 people who prefer Apple machines for their work. These machines are currently either a) not backed up at all, or b) backed up using Retrospect(Which I'm not very fond of). I don't really have the budget…
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Mac OSX VNC server - Can I see if anyone else is logged in?

I'm trying to VNC into a Mac OSX machine. I can SSH in fine. The VNC server is misbehaving, and I'm tempted to restart it. However I don't want to do that if someone is using it now. Is there any way to see from the command line if anyone else is…
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Using OSX home directories from linux

I'm running an OSX (Snow Leopard) Server with OpenDirectory, which is nothing else than a modified OpenLDAP with some Apple-specific schemas. However, I want to reuse this directory on some of my Linux (Debian Squeeze) boxes. It's no problem to…
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mongo shell / readline / osx

I would like to get the mongo shell to work with readline under osx lion so it picks up my inputrc and I can get all my funky vim bindings. I tried: scons -j 16 --64 --extralib=readline --libpath=/usr/local/lib --cpppath=/usr/local/include…
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How to determine whether opendiff is installed?

As the title says, I want to determine whether the opendiff wrapper for FileMerge.app is present. I know of at least two places it can be located: /usr/bin/opendiff /Developer/usr/bin/opendiff Is there a foolproof way to determine whether it's…
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