Hi all. Welcome back to my (hopefully) popular Bash scripting series! In this batch I plan to go through some items which I learnt for a recent education project: modifying network locations via the command line, modifying proxy settings via
As a ServiceDesk and OS X engineer you often find that you need to benchmark your disk to see if the performance has deteriorated. There are a large number of disk benchmark applications out there, which are all effective at
Following on from John’s Gatekeeper Podcast. I thought I would blog about something that I’ve been asked about a few times whilst teaching Apple’s Support Essentials course which is, how to remotely manage Gatekeeper using Command Line. As John mentioned
As most of you will know Mac OS X is a UNIX-based Operating System based upon the Mach Kernel (see here). As such a lot of the functionality found in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, and BSD for that matter,
While teaching a 10.7 Support Essentials course today, one of the delegates asked if it was possible to make the recovery partition visible in Disk Utility in case of any corruption that may need to be repaired. If you are
By Richard Mallion In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), the Library folder in your home folder is now hidden. There are a couple of ways gain access to it. To quickly browse your Library folder, open a Finder window and