The latest Java
update
from Apple broke JMeter... not sure why but JMeter needs Java 1.5. Add
this line near the top of your jakarta-jmeter-2.X.X/bin/jmeter file
using your handy dandy text editor. I like
TextWrangler.
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5"
If you use any of the other jmeter run scripts you may need to add this to them as well.
| macosxhints.com - Customize the iDVD background Apple Logo | As you may know, iDVD includes (by default) the Apple logo watermark on your DVD. You can disable this in the General section of iDVD's preferences. In my case, however, I wanted the watermark, but I didn't want it to be the Apple logo. Here's how to change it (you'll need the Developer Tools installed to do this):
| 1. Quit iDVD if it's running, then make a backup of the iDVD.app program. | 2. Control-click on iDVD.app in the Finder, and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. | 3. Navigate into Contents/Resources. | 4. Edit the file watermark.tif to your satisfaction, retaining the pretty translucency. | 5. Open Watermark.qtz by double-clicking on the file; it should open in Quartz Composer. | 6. Click on the patch that says Watermark. | 7. Click on Patch Inspector in the Toolbar, then choose Settings. | 8. Import the watermark.tif file you just edited. | 9. Save the file and restart iDVD.
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AFP548 - Best Practices: Operations
The Mac OS X Server community tends to be an odd one in the larger IT world. It isn't because of the relative scarcity of our OS, or the strange hardware, it's because the sysadmins are often not sysadmins. The people tasked with Mac OS X Server are often educators, video editors, or bus drivers who have been pressed into service as the Mac OS X Server sysadmin; often for no reason more than they were reading MacAddict at lunch. Because of this sysadmin conscription I often find that the people waging the good fight lack training in the practices of IT administration. Furthermore they are often not required to conform to the practices of the organization as a whole since they are running "Those MAC servers..." and are excluded.
all in the head - Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X
At home we have a Windows 2003 Server running as a domain controller and file server. Whilst this does its job pretty nicely for Windows clients, I've never been able to connect to it successfully with my Mac running OS X 10.3 Panther. Browsing the network I have always been able to see the server, but any attempt to authenticate simply returned a error along the lines of "the original item cannot be found". Frustrating.
macosxhints - Create a hard-drive based OS X installer
A recent post reminded me of a trick I've been using for the past year or so with great success, so I figured I'd share. Being a Mac specialist, I find myself having to do OS installs on a pretty regular basis. I carry around a couple of 2.5" FireWire hard drives loaded with installers, diagnostics, and other goodies.
I wanted to be able to install the OS from one of my hard drives, like in the old days of OS 9, instead of having to boot the the machine from a CD or DVD. So here's what I did:
| macosxhints - Modify Remote Login server to block scripted attacks | If you run a machine that is open to the public internet, and you open up SSH then you've seen these entries in your system logs.
eb 10 07:07:36 localhost sshd[1078]: Illegal user matt from 210.127.248.158 Feb 10 07:07:38 localhost sshd[1080]: Illegal user test from 210.127.248.158 Feb 10 07:07:40 sshd[1082]: Illegal user operator from 210.127.248.158 Feb 10 07:07:42 sshd[1084]: Illegal user wwwrun from 210.127.248.158 Feb 10 07:07:52 sshd[1096]: Illegal user apache from 210.127.248.158 Feb 10 07:07:59 sshd[1104]: Failed password for root from 210.127.248.158 port 58752 ssh2 Feb 10 07:08:01 sshd[1106]: Failed password for root from 210.127.248.158 port 59136 ssh2 Feb 10 07:08:03 sshd[1108]: Failed password for root from 210.127.248.158 port 59176 ssh2 Feb 10 07:08:15 sshd[1122]: Failed password for root from 210.127.248.158 port 60606 ssh2 .…
From the good folks at macosxhints.com.
I always thought it might be helpful to use the OS X installation CD not only for the purpose of installing the OS, but to do some repairs which can't be done when running from the hard disk. Fortunately, Apple has made this very easy. The only thing you have to do is to add the application(s) of your choice to the /Applications -> Utilities folder of the installation CD/DVD. After that, boot from the copy of the DVD, and in addition to the usual utilities, (for instance) the Terminal will appear in the list of commands you can execute if you added it before. I find that really useful, because if something goes wrong, the underlying Unix commands are most times able to fix it.