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Let me start by saying that VMWare does not officially support this and as far as I can tell they don’t necessarily want you to do it. So don’t expect to get support from them on this. However, with the fact that vSphere 6.5 is now old news chances are if you are here that […]
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 […]
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 able to get the Mac to shutdown fine, but when the UPS would cycle […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ( […]
Well a few days after the Apple released of El Capitan and unfortunately this time the update broke much more than you would expect. In the 2 days I have been running it on two of systems here are just some of the more annoying issues I have dealt with. Turning on Filevault caused my […]
So my programming pet project at the moment is a CRM-ish type application. I am writing it using primarily JavaScript/Jquery and PHP. I have never really been a huge fan of javascript, but if you want a dynamic front end with PHP power you need run PHP via ajax. So now comes the headache part. […]
