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Restarting A Remote Mac Via Terminal

Publican — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:01:36 +0000

1. On the Mac that you want to control via remote, launch System Preferences and choose Sharing. Click the lock icon and enter your Admin password to unlock the preference.

2. Within that preference enable the Remote Login option. In this window you’ll see the command for accessing your remote Mac, for example: ssh username@127.0.0.1 (The address with be different). Close System Preferences.

3. On the local Mac (which is running on the same local network as the remote Mac) launch the Terminal and enter ssh username@127.0.0.1.

4. After a short delay enter your password for the remote Mac.
5. Enter:

sudo shutdown -r now

The remote Mac will restart immediately.

Legends of Eisenwald – Kickstarter

Publican — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:01:25 +0000

Legends of Eisenwald is an original mix of RPG and strategy, with tactical turn based battles and a simple economic model. Rich possibilities of gameplay mechanics allow a player to feel being a hero of different stories ranging from treasure hunt to fighting for the throne. You can follow your game path as a Knight, Mystic or a Baroness and in each case gameplay and story will be partially different.

Aaron Sorkin To Pen Steve Jobs’ Biopic For Sony

Publican — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:01:26 +0000

If anything could counter my disappointment in the choice of Ashton Kutcher play Steve Jobs in an independent release later this year. Is the wonderful news that Aaron Sorkin is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures biopic on Jobs. He is a gifted writer, and his work on The Social Network, shows he can take on Walter Isaacson’s biopic of Jobs.

Star Wars Stamps – Intergalactic Postal Service

Publican — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:01:28 +0000

Once again old has combine with the future. Stefan Van Zoggle, release a series of stamps base on the Star Wars Universe.

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Classic Monster Movie Posters

Publican — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:01:15 +0000

A selection of Classic Movie Monster posters done by MondoTees.

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Disable Elastic (Rubber Band) Scrolling In Mac OS X Lion (10.7)

Publican — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:01:01 +0000

With every great OS comes great disappointment. Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion for the masses that don’t understand numbers), had many improvements and changes. Some were not so accepted. One such change was the elastic over-scrolling that exists in the iOS world. Commonly called “rubberband scrolling”, it activates as an overscrolling effect that runs out of the scrollable region revealing the linen background before snapping back into the scrollable region. Scroll up quickly in virtually any window since 10.7 to see the effect in action. Rubber-banding to me is strictly eye candy but it does make the Mac feel familiar to those coming from the iOS world. This has been an area of contention for many of us regular users (some of us enjoy a file system) some users are annoyed with it and will appreciate the ability to disable the scroll elasticity completely.

Launch Terminal enter the following defaults write command:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

Apps will need to relaunch for the changes to take effect, though disabling rubber band scrolling does not work in every app.

To undo the change and get rubberband scrolling back, use the following defaults command:

defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding

Thanks for those that found this default change. Via: MacWorld

How To Delete The Dock Delay

Publican — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:45:38 +0000

If you hide the Dock you may have noticed that when you then move your cursor to the edge of the screen to make it reveal itself, there’s a slight delay before the Dock slides back into view. The delay may not be that long, maybe half a second, but if change can be had why not do it.

In the Terminal there is a command can make the Dock appear instantly. From the Terminal, run the following command:

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock

That will change the setting and relaunch the Dock all in one fell swoop. When you move your cursor to the edge of your screen now, the Dock should appear immediately.

If you ever want to restore the default delay, open the Terminal and enter the command:

defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay && killall Dock.

RIP Automotive Legend Carroll Shelby

Publican — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:42:53 +0000

On May 11th, 2012, Carroll Shelby passed away at the age of 89 after hospitalised for pneumonia.

Every automotive enthusiast knows about Carroll Shelby and about his colossal contribution to the automotive industry. He began his racing career in 1959 as an amateur, winning Europe’s prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1962, he tested his first Ford-powered AC 260 Roadster – the car that would become the Shelby Cobra. This was the beginning of an impressive career.

“Today, we have lost a legend in Ford Motor Company’s history, and my family and I have lost a dear friend. Carroll Shelby is one of the most recognized names in performance car history, and he’s been successful at everything he’s done. Whether helping Ford dominate the 1960s racing scene or building some of the most famous Mustangs, his enthusiasm and passion for great automobiles over six decades has truly inspired everyone who worked with him. He was a great innovator whose legend at Ford never will be forgotten. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends,” said Edsel B. Ford II, member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company and great-grandson of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

You will be missed.

Generate Random Passwords from the Command Line

Publican — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:27:17 +0000

The most secure passwords used, are those that are randomly generated. From the command line, you can randomize potential passwords in multiple ways.

First method uses openssl, in the terminal type:

openssl rand -base64 6

The output of this command will be random, and as an example look like: cG/ah3+9

Adjustments to the length of the password can be done by changing the number on the end of the string. If abnormal characters are not wanted like ^ and *, generation can be done via hex too:

openssl rand -hex 4

For more random options, pipe the randomized output of openssl through md5 and trim the md5 hash of the randomized output down to a set number of characters:

openssl rand -base64 8 |md5 |head -c8;echo

Other options are to take random input from other commands, such as date, and trim 8 characters from the current dates md5 hash:

date |md5 | head -c8; echo

Or even ping:

ping -c 1 google.com |md5 | head -c8; echo

Using the md5 method, the output of any command, or file, can be used to create a secure password.

Enable Root User In OS X Lion 10.7

Publican — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:19 +0000

WARNING: Severe damage can be done while working in the root account!

The root user is a super user account with high level system-wide access privileges intended for system administration, monitoring, and in depth troubleshooting purposes. By default, root user is disabled in Mac OS X for security purposes. If you do not have a specific need to enable root, you should leave it disabled.

Enable Root User in OS X Lion

This process also sets a password for the root account.

From the Mac OS X Desktop, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder and enter the following path:

/System/Library/CoreServices/

Inside CoreServices folder, locate and launch “Directory Utility”.
Unlock “Directory Utility” by clicking the padlock icon and entering the administrator password.
Pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Enable Root User”.

Enter and confirm a password to set the root users password and to enable the account.

With root now enabled, the account can be used freely. It will not appear in the Users & Groups preference pane.

The root account can access, read, and write to all files on a system, even if they belong to someone else. Additionally, root can also remove or replace system files. This is why it’s a potential security risk to leave the account enabled aimlessly, or to use a weak password with the account.

The Directory Utility control panel can also be used to change a set root password through the Edit menu, or that can be done through the command line using sudo passwd, similar to changing the root password in iOS devices.