TLDL: You appear to need BOTH samba and avahi installed with just the right magic in your config files or MacOS freaks out and finder stops responding till you do a hard shutdown of the machine. Shame on Apple big time for the way finder handles it! Config file info is below! When Since at …
TL;DR: You need to boot the vm then run sudo nvram boot-args=”-nehalem_error_disable” to disable the ECC memory check, then you can edit the .vmx file and add the hw.model, board-id and serialNumber to it. The Apple Xserve is already end of life, but as anyone that still has one will tell you it is still …
TL;DR: You need to pass the location of the local folder as a repository and then make sure you set the “–prefer-dist” value to “@dev”. Just replace everything in caps below and you are good to go! composer create-project –prefer-dist SOURCE_SCOPE/SOURCE_NAME=”@dev” NEW_PROJECT_NAME –repository ‘{“type”: “path”, “url”: “/PATH/TO/THE/SOURCE/PROJECT”, “options”: {“symlink”: false}}’ I was recently working on …
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TD;DL The stand for an similar iMac such as a Late 2009 iMac 27-Inch A1312 will attach to and work with a Mini Displayport Cinema Display ( A1316 ) or Thunderbolt Cinema Display ( A1407 ) Although Apple now offers the XDR Pro display many are still using and opting for the old 27″ 2K …
If you have ever compressed a folder on Mac and then opened it on another machine with a different operating system like Windows you have no doubt seen that there are 2 files you didn’t expect in the final folder. The .DS_Store and __MACOS files are used by MacOS, but don’t do anything on other …
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For specifics related to the Apple Xserve click here and look under Power Policy Although there is no new version of network shutdown for Mac if you have a Mac and want to be able to have it shut down and come back on this article is for you. In my initial testing I was …
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If you are using AWS Lightsail or running a Bitnami instance somewhere else for WordPress and want to use the REST API chances are you will have issues. In my case it manifested in not being able to authenticate even though I knew the credentials were correct. Then thanks to some help from the Gravity …
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TL:DR You need to become create a CA cert and then use that to sign your self signed cert. You can then add the CA cert to your system which will cause your other cert to be trusted. First some background. For years now I have had servers here at the house that are only …
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TL;DR The lights on the older Apple Xserve Server line won’t work if you install anything newer than 10.7 on them. Using a program that connects to the lights USB controller you can restore their function. It isn’t quite as good as HWmond was, but it does pretty well. If you are using Macports ( …
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TL;DR: Google WiFi pucks can’t take heat at all. If everything is setup right and the WiFi sucks make sure a puck isn’t hot. The other night as I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep I heard my wife grumbling about the internet. I rolled over to find her staring at the …