Written by Philipp on 2020-04-26
Fixing nix Setup on MacOS Catalina
Bash . CLI . Mac . PersonalWith MacOS Catalina (10.15), Apple decided to decrease the possibilities of system users to install software applications within the system. That means, that it is not possible anymore to install software at specific location in your system, since most system folder ware mounted read-only at boot to improve the overall system security. That leads to
Written by Philipp on 2017-05-04
solving Security Error while starting Java WebStart (e.g. IPMI Remote)
Mac . Security . ToolingMost of the IPMI Systems out there still using good old Java based Remote Applications to connect to the remote console. Sine Java 8 update 111, the MD5 singing algorithm was marked as insecure (aka disabled) by Oracale (see Relase Notes for that Release ” Restrict JARs signed with weak algorithms and keys”). You will
Written by Philipp on 2014-06-22
Writing Munin Plugins pt2: counting VPNd Connections
Mac . Network . Perl . ToolingPreamble Every Munin Plugin should have a preamble by default: #!/usr/bin/env perl # -*- perl -*- =head1 NAME dar_vpnd a Plugin for displaying VPN Stats for the Darwin (MacOS) vpnd Service. =head1 INTERPRETATION The Plugin displays the number of active VPN connections. =head1 CONFIGURATION No Configuration necessary! =head1 AUTHOR Philipp Haussleiter <philipp@haussleiter.de> (email) =head1 LICENSE
Written by Philipp on 2014-06-22
Writing Munin Plugins pt1: Overview
Bash . Mac . NetworkWriting your own Munin Plugins Around February this year, we at innoQ had the need for setting up a Mac OS based CI for a Project. Besides building of integrating some standard Java Software, we also had to setup an Test Environment with Solaris/Weblogic, Mac OS for doing a CI for an iOS Application and
Written by Philipp on 2014-02-09
Managing Mac OS Software with Munki and Subversion
Mac . TechAt the Lisa ’13, some folks from Google did a talk how they managing all their Desktop (and Server?) Macs at Google. Besides obvious things (like using Puppet), they mentioned another Tool, Munki, for rolling out Software and Software Updates to different Clients. Since i am using several Mac Machines (Laptop, Workstation and some VMs)
Written by Philipp on 2012-10-12
Dinge die bei einer MacOS Migration NICHT kopiert werden
Mac . ToolingMac:Office 2011 Lizenz iWork 09 Lizenz VPN Regeln to be continued …
Written by Philipp on 2012-09-15
Building Native MacOS Apps with Java
Hacking . Java . MacSome Time ago, Java and MacOS were friends. You could just open XCode choose “Java Application” and start coding your app. But since the last version of Xcode 3 and finally with the release of Xcode 4 all the nice Cocoa/Java Bindings were gone. The normal way of Apple to cleanup their System and make
Written by Philipp on 2010-06-21
MacOS update 10.6.4 and Macfusion
Mac . NASAfter the updating MacFusion to the latest Version, i got the known Snow Leopard Error again. Last time i found the solution here. Worked also perfect this time.
Written by Philipp on 2010-06-16
MacOS update 10.6.4 and GPGMail
Mac . Tech . TwitterSo the latest MacOS Update broke the gpg-mail Plugin again. But it seems that the old UUID Trick saves the show. First close Mail.app. Then you need to find out the new PluginCompatibilityUUIDs from Mail.app and the Message Framework. cat /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Resources/Info.plist | grep UUID -A 1 cat /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist |grep UUID -A 1 | grep UUID
Written by Philipp on 2009-09-06
system update :-/
Mac . PersonalWer meine vergangenen Kurzbeiträge verfolgt hat, hat mitbekommen, dass ich mein System auf MacOS 10.6 aktualisiert habe. Neben vielen Dingen die erstaunlich problemlos liefen, gibt es leider auch einige Probleme. Manche davon ließen sich sehr einfach lösen: Die fehlenden Java Versionen 1.4 bis 1.5 lassen sich einfach durch das manuelle Kopieren aus einem Backup wieder