Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Balazs
OS X developers do not need to use a virtual machine any longer to be able to run DB2 in their favorite development environment. The latest version of DB2 9.5 available for download works on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).
Tags: DB2 9.5, IBM, OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard
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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Balazs
Problem
How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux?
Solution
First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps.
Next, in the WMWare configuration menu of the guest, set up the desired shared folders. There might be already a default shared folder [...]
Tags: CentOS, OS X 10.6, RHEL, Shared Folders, VMWare, VMWare Fusion
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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Balazs
To solve the problem, the easiest way is to flush the routes by rebooting. The elegant way however is to shut down the interface connecting the Mac to the Internet, flush the routing table, and bring the interface back up.
Tags: OpenVPN, OS X 10.6, Tunnelblick
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Posted on Sunday, 29th November 2009 by Balazs
Problem
It is necessary for some users to have all their traffic directed through the OpenVPN concentrator. The number one reason for such a configuration is to protect the HTTP traffic over unsecured WiFi (a.k.a. hotspots).
Solution
Add to the bottom of the connecting client’s configuration file (typically under /etc/openvpn/clients.d the following line:
push “redirect-gateway”
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Tags: OpenVPN, Schimo, Tunnelblick, VPN
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Posted on Sunday, 1st November 2009 by Balazs
Overview
Have you ever got tired of plugging in 5-8 cables each time you move your Mac from one desk to another? If you tried to buy a docking station from Apple, you noticed that they do not offer one. I found the following sites that have some solutions.
Docking station vendors for MacBook and [...]
Tags: Apple, Dock, Docking Station, MacBook, MacBook Pro
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Posted on Thursday, 29th October 2009 by Balazs
Overview
One of the neat aspects of OSX is that it has all the classic Unix tools available. Linux users know that dd is the command line tool to flash a CF card or a USB drive on Linux. Here is how to use dd on the Mac.
Steps
Open a command line tool (terminal or [...]
Tags: CF, USB
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Posted on Friday, 29th May 2009 by Balazs
To clear the DNS cache on Mac OS X (10.5), open a terminal window and type: dscacheutil -flushcache
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Tags: DNS
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs
Everyone knows the Shift+PrtScr trick to take a screen shot with a PC. I had to take a snapshot from RDP within and OS X session and I did not have a PC keyboard attached. That led me to discover that the Mac is way more powerful than the PC for screen shots right out [...]
Tags: Mac, os x, OSX, screen shot
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