I miss the startup chime on my MacBook Pro.
To enable it, open up terminal and type:
sudo nvram StartupMute=%00
To disable it, either reset your parameter RAM by pressing Command-Option-P-R at startup, or in terminal type:
sudo nvram StartupMute=%01
If you’re using MariaDB, you may be wondering why #mysql50#.rocksdb is listed with a “SHOW DATABASES;”
This database is associated with the rocksdb-storage-engine. I am investigating further.
Apple’s default settings for BASH are less than lovely — just shades of gray.
Here’s how to add color to BASH for your visual enjoyment. Continue reading
Using ‘sudo’ with NPM is a no-no, as it can cause all kinds of havoc with file permissions. You can specify a default directory for globally installed packages and thus absolve yourself of sudo chaos. Continue reading
As any Mac user knows, running Command and Conquer Generals (including Zero Hour) tends to crash on startup on a Mac running OS X. Here’s how to fix it. Continue reading
I recently needed to add a wildcard SSL certificate, purchased from Network Solutions, to an AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.04. Here’s the steps I followed for success:
I recently needed to delete the Backups.backupdb file via command line using the rm command. However, sudo user can’t do it, and neither can root. What’s a guy to do?
The method for clearing or flushing the local cache in Mac OS X has changed over the years. Clear your DNS cache on Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard and Leopard using the following Terminal commands:
I have various Internet services like email, web and messages running on a Mini server running OS X on a subdomain.
Often, I want services like Messages to appear to use our main dot-com address, yet actually run on our internal dot-net domain.
So, how do I configure Messages server to appear to virtually function on our dot-com, yet still reside on a sub-domain?
Sadly, I had this experience lately. Even though I had the firewall explicitly set to allow connections using Screen Sharing, for some reason my Mavericks OS X 10.9 server hiccuped and I couldn’t access it via screen sharing.
Here’s how I resolved my dilemma: