Archives: 'Field-tested'

Problem: Google Drive asks to perform a update. When clicking update there is no prompt or action. Solution: Quit running Google Drive processes Open Terminal.app and execute the following command (replace 10.9.2 by your currently running OSX version, you can find it in the „About this Mac“ menu): /Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive –overlays_enabled_finder_versions=“10.9.2″ Google Drive will […]

In Mac OSX 10.8 developer preview, Apple added a long desired feature to the calender.app for business use: calender weeks. Problem: However, the displayed calender week is one week ahead the real calender week. Typically calender weeks starts with the first full week of the year. But, calender.app starts calender week one in the week […]

After the yesterday’s java update for MAC OS X 10.7.3, my Eclipse stopped working this morning after a clean reboot. Eclipse hangs in the launch screen and no CPU activity can be measured. How to detect the current java version: $ java -version java version „1.6.0_31“ Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04-414-11M3626) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit […]

Start with options disk.auto_assign off on both partners FAS1, FAS2. fas1> disk assign -s unowned 0a.23 – remove ownership on system that owns the disk (FAS1). fas2> disk show -n – the disk shows up as unowned with the physical address it has on FAS2 fas2> disk assign 0b.23 – take ownership of the unowned […]

Problem: Debian release 6, wordpress installed from testing via „aptitude install wordpress -t testing“. This worked fine for years, however with upgrading to 3.1.2 users noticed that the visual tab does no longer display any text and no toolbar was loaded. Similar problems were noticed earlier, e.g. here, here or here. However, deactivating plugins was […]

Problem: When typing via an UMTS connection or bad remote line via remote console, it is even impossible to login since credentials will by cryptically repeated. A single key stroke results in multiple characters printed. Solution: Power off the virtual machine. Add the following line to the end of the machine’s VMX file. This specifies […]

After some crashes of mail.app you will finally end in some items shown in only in the client app. Obviously, this happens only when using IMAP or Exchange accounts. However, the traditional solution was to remove the account and recreate them. Since the sync depends on the size of items to synchronize, I was frustrated […]

Problem: Accidently, some friends of mine changed the display resolution of the Mac Book Air’s external display to an unsupported resolution. Everytime you close the lid, the screen went blank. Solution: Starting in safe mode (holding shift during startup) and third-party tools did not work. Therefore try the following: login without the external screen attached […]

I look for this great tool all few month, but cannot remember its name. It automatically creates iptable entries by screening auth/logon logs to drop attackers and spammers. Recommended to download.

If you want to clone logical partitions or entire HDDs blockwise the linux tool dd comes often into play. This is perfect, but after hours of consumed CPU time the question arise: „How to detect the progress of dd?“ dd responses to the USR1 kill signal with a statistic output without interrupting its operation. Therefore, […]