tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212485142024-02-19T09:36:15.972+03:00DimiG OwnBlogThat's my OWN Blog I use for OWN purposes (but maybe it helps others)<br>
All info here based on my OWN experience for UNIX based systems.DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-27634372038815062202016-07-19T23:08:00.000+03:002017-08-18T12:46:27.920+03:00My Blog is forked (UPDATED)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you probably noted my Blog posts here are very rare. Approximately one post per year. Some people say that the Blogging is for old age people or for people who over 35 years old. The young generation use social networks as replacement. Sure, it is already the old form to say something to the world. In addition the new technologies in WEB development are growing fast. I wouldn't say I'm going to close this blog completely. Some users subscribed this address in their RSS aggregators. So, I'll give the address of my new forked Blog <a href="http://dgtekmate.ga/">HERE</a>.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-blog-is-forked.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-25172609240524197492014-10-02T12:40:00.002+04:002014-10-05T15:04:35.019+04:00BootStrap for Synology® DS114 NAS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPJPBwLdiEKeKkJ7R6K3BrTMCUosTxc_L_hPbYgakRMYMIDl18LFg9SiuEIpzHNil-I3IR3HbVSl04axOh5I77Qa33WErJoktY6k44o5p2OToic_ZWApcs_wm3ZxErE7_iORR/s1600/NAS_128x128.png"></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently I have received ability to check out NAS and have been very impressed by “Synology®” products. It is not only NAS storage. It is really small computer with power of NAS. First, I had experience with DS414 model. The second one is DS114 model. They have different microprocessors and power. In this article I try to describe how to add BootStrap on DS114 model.</span><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2014/10/bootstrap-for-synology-ds114-nas.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-43130394256293847232014-09-30T21:35:00.002+04:002014-10-05T14:57:49.852+04:00Back to my Blog 2.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivR7UZ1oHwrJJREJEZhBopHXVR4qcWVdqxvUvSdLZoRJ1rssi-klFp9bI0P1FQfwesHB0B3MEgZDzSR3u7HMdxgXWu73LBVOwGBlxwsn3nKZXf0d2GTz6TFH4CacpvRAly9-1H/s1600/blog_128x128.png"></a></div>Back to my Blog. I try to recreate my blog activity after of more than year of inactivity. In spite of it I see not bad activity in visits for my old articles. The social media are killing the `Blog' forms. Somewhere I’ve found that Bloggers are people whose age above 35 y.o. Hmm… Anyway, the Blog form allow to systematise the common interests in topics and present it for future use to others.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2014/09/back-to-my-blog-20.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-52612341365385234152013-01-01T16:00:00.000+04:002013-01-05T01:14:13.998+04:00Happy New 2013 Year!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Happy New 2013 year for everyone!</b> Believe it will be better than previous one. <b>Health and prosperity to all.</b> Lets do the things together and bring the bright future on the planet become reality.<br>
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Regarding my blog. <i>I ask excuse me </i>that I haven't posts the long time. I have a new position (<i>job</i>) and it eats all my time. This blog is not profitable. So, future for this is really unclean. Cause I have a free site hosting (my special thanks to Google) I plan to publish here the things I really interested in and hope It will be interesting for others. Windows, Mac OS or Linux I prefer study they all to feel comfortable in modern world. Maybe I will post something about programming, but not sure yet.<br>
</div></div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-new-2013-year.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-84964085939313614832011-12-28T12:05:00.004+04:002014-10-05T15:00:47.780+04:00My first article in PowerShell Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqz5b4x_GzB3ZncW11063_JH9MfAbk_u97y0XN7unbrfnBKaZkRI9L4zY5E2fImYbhU_7WAQ2LKIZHPjeFGSN8Wy7SL-s5A7kt_cv-SRzGzSaWKqxbT5REr3aQAAYBWwNrKvkF/s1600/PShellx128.png" /></a></div>Quick news. Just have a note. My <b>first</b> <a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/">PowerShell Magazine</a> article is <a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2011/12/27/powershell-linux-to-windows-integration-encoding-problem/">HERE</a>. My special thanks for the support to <a href="http://twitter.com/ShayLevy">@ShayLevy</a> and Douglas Finke. The “PowerShell Magazine” was started with a thought of serving exclusive PowerShell content free of cost to the readers. This magazine is a monthly magazine and is available as an online edition and as downloadable PDF (and ePub/Mobi formats in future). The majority of content contribution is done through guest authors and the community.DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-36031366872251489652011-11-14T00:45:00.009+04:002011-11-14T17:40:16.702+04:00Link shortening by Curl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsyVYWdgKp8zgkjXLwBF2i88UMkayPtdo_nRx-6Yulo1Am5MSo5cEmGtZ7ihgPtHce-AqQ_49crszA45W5huMF0xAD0vssd1XJgbfpbc3era_zNzf4Yx7ewX8rj_sOSqPIK5CZ/s1600/Google-AppEngine-128.png"></a></div>I'm a big fan of link shortening. Everywhere I want to share any interesting link with others I use short links. Other side I hate when anyone send me too long links.<br>
There are many link shortening services exist. YouTube® for example use own shortening link service. For other resources I use only Google® service for this.<br>
There are plugins for browsers to do that. '<i>Firefox</i>' has plugin for it, '<i>Safari</i>' has too. But any plugin can lead to security risk. That is why it it is not a good idea to use it.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/11/link-shortening-by-curl.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-77673622220748389562011-08-23T15:10:00.006+04:002011-11-14T00:53:39.798+04:00Disk Utility administrator permissions on Mac OS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZ77jeboDXt8IembZAx-6SVfHZz_iTTKJr0_xlX0AHeiyhBoZGTdv7uSRN8rLpQBmZj8uhYKX13Qbd6z3rxdW8bckeVreNF_SFDAgYogRWvz4ehSGJyAVDBoi0zRy8oOLGDR_/s200/users.png" width="128"></a></div>If you have the public Mac computer and many people use it the best practice make an user account with user permissions and grant it to public users. By default, the main user on Mac OS has the administrative permissions. If you have an empty password for it, this user can destroy system data and bring your computer to `unbootable` state. The Mac OS 10.7 Lion has same security problems as 10.6 That is why the user account with user rights is best for such situations.<br>
There is one little psychological problem for user. If user see that he is not an administrator he falls into depression ;) This article shows how make things better.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/08/disk-utility-administrator-permissions.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-40705551212103342032011-08-12T12:33:00.009+04:002011-08-15T12:58:24.901+04:00Handy Terminal download in Mac OS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYf1N1U_emNKWXoexIUcXWcCpwH0iVBZITB3a7XrWQJLbNTWTF_6HbX5QNEUqv1OMrf2EnNzL72i-A1dY45b_48NRJ_wI3IN8nCYdqs8qyKPJuP_aRgERfLlGykiXim_q2V2yP/s1600/Terminal.png"></a></div>For <b>'Console geeks'</b> as me there is a handy way to download any files from Internet by any CLI util. Linux has <b>'wget'</b> pre installed.<br>
On <i>Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7</i> there is no pre installed utils like above. And if you have the guest computer, setup there anything is not a good idea. Lucky in <i>Mac OS</i> there is a <b>'curl'</b> installed. So this short tip will show you how to do it on Mac OS.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/08/handy-terminal-download-in-mac-os.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-7980801710024697572011-03-21T11:29:00.000+03:002011-03-21T11:29:56.212+03:00File Systems Vs Transfer speed for USB drives<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpmaymF60GO-0T9BdBQhNM_ts3I30a69DGoU-nfqppFKg99LVxFbn6X972dDhFc6fzsdyh-bZk4LhX5Ii8pD4nXQHIydXjlwA49jiNvXUWqOtzLYtb3ayOJ7EjFXQlCrL7ee5G/s1600/Usb-128.png"></a></div>My last visit to computer store was for USB backup hard drive. There are many models and sizes there. Some of them have USB3.0/2.0 interface. But actually I don't understand why need to make the USB3.0 interface with slow and small 2,5'' SATA drive. I believe it is a marketing lead. My choice was SAMSUNG G2 Portable Cobalt-Black 640Gb External Hard Drive (model: HX-MU064DC/GB2)<br>
In this article I'm going to test it with MacOS 10.6.6 and check the transfer speed for it with different file systems (exFAT, Mac OS Extended and Mac OS Extended Journaled) For my tests I'll use the free utilities. One of them is UNIX `dd` the other one is `<a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/17804/mbbench">MMBench</a>` which displays the speed of you hard drives and recording devices. OK, Lets do it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/03/file-systems-vs-transfer-speed-for-usb.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-13326948036355982002011-02-14T00:41:00.015+03:002011-02-14T00:58:13.932+03:00iPhone/iPod Touch video encoding by Mac OS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyxVehh2oL4EFKR4O6bU5QPA3_L224VBtYAM9PGkWT0_iQ1_ENxZgwsqbAH5nSDTp26vw7DG9AlrSt4u4F7J3Bzm9U-ZN_gnUMhyphenhyphenypesnmIgfbPBt3ySJWSD4NN0flU3YvlJYN/s1600/Video-128.png"></a></div>Have you ever had an idea to upload your video to <i>iPhone/iPod Touch</i> from your system in native <i>iPhone/iPod Touch</i> format? If yes, this article is for you.<br>
In <i>Mac OS SL</i> system there is a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/quicktime.html">QuickTime X</a> player which can convert video to some formats. Just load it and Save as iPhone/iPod format or even <i>AppleTV</i>, or share it with <i>iTunes</i> and <i>YouTube</i>. But there is a problem - the <i>QuickTime X</i> player should accept the format you plan to convert. If not you have to use third party software. I always search the free solution at begin and as CLI geek prefer the CLI based UNIX software. <i>HandBrake</i> is a good remedy for such '<i>QuickTime unsupported</i>' formats. Lets have a look.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/02/iphoneipod-touch-video-encoding-by-mac.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-89528221530664334722011-01-08T23:47:00.005+03:002011-02-16T22:26:19.541+03:00New Year Beginning<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIhUH-RaOQd0517AT-G9enfweeNRTcd_r_FSvE5PUBfNHIoIPO3sassAFrl1itK0KAjB7gwmGWakXQvCTZgT4oTDVDOasLER7Gcxvh3JDFh2Esa-mOxz0G_YBo3qDPs1_gC4_N/s1600/New-Year-Tree-128.png"></a></div>The New <b>2011</b> Year start and hope it brings happiness, emergency free and prosperity time. <b>Thanks to everyone who was with me and with this site last year.</b> We should look forward and hope for better time in the world. At begin of this <b>2011</b> year <b>Apple</b> introduced the <b>Apple Store for Mac OS </b>(MAS). Hope this systemize the mess with program installation routine in Mac OS world. But sure we will look forward regarding this.</div></div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-year-beginning.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-58835432582349034172010-12-06T16:13:00.010+03:002010-12-06T16:22:00.318+03:00Mac OS login screen capture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyTI0znD23oVKbRHheYj1kmrttXR0bD3FGSLi4ivQpw3f7A2esPH3txjk3eXDCIyStV-SCM5Iu0eG9qtL0phw9tCQAjJm0NpDtJEjYmFw2DssbVo21U3LNOZbLiQJ11vCnNdJ/s1600/iGlory-128.png"></a></div>This article is actual useful for 'Bloggers'. Some times you may wish to get the screen shot of your login screen for your Mac. You can do it by photo camera with weak quality ;) or use the software method. On systems below 10.5 you could write a script with screen shot delay procedure, run it, and do Log Out. Then your script get the screen shot of your login screen and write it on your disk. Unfortunately or fortunately ;) the Leopard system 10.5 or even SL 10.6 has a protection from such tricks. Yes, any 'spy trojan' can't do this trick by this and send your screen shot to owner. We can't do screen shot also. There is a more complicated method which will allow you to do that. Here is how.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/12/mac-os-login-screen-capture.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-77757049072011305442010-10-11T01:25:00.009+04:002010-10-16T16:05:25.515+04:00EXIF data JPEG extractor for MacOSX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAXVtk_UI4SIM_z0tHvSAy1epd9uL11N8DtF5Vxf9EaI9wGklWCdR1_OtMMBihg1pewB31V17oWEMGzqer01EcSQUAU_iSPfedR18J2VyeZBSslj2t3plapdJXDZFtzCZuNZVd/s1600/RedScriptAlt-128.png"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes there is a task to remove all EXIF data from JPEG photos you did by your photo camera. This could be useful if you're going to publish them in the net. As many knows there are professional software solutions for that. It could be Adobe® Lightroom or something else. Sure, professional solutions always costs money. Now I'm going to explain the way by which you can do the same action for free. But as in our life you have to pay for it anyway by your time to study Mac OS system. The information below is for advanced users. Current action and droplet AppleScript was tested by me on Mac OS 10.6.4 Here is how.</div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/10/exif-data-jpeg-extractor.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-7465459654697898132010-08-31T23:07:00.018+04:002010-08-31T23:40:34.252+04:003Dlock script<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWg59LBd73umBJv1tMjsD2RorehbUvJA1SWKmBjGzUoTnDsRcnvWLsY53ZbHKitJkF_Mn6nPKcICoYFx0LBm_pDx5HgWV6gzgWsq6TkOEsqGt9CNDJYIBCAS3BeZS2cFdS2n_/s320/AppleScript-128.png"></a></div>I have an idea to start publish the little programming code for Mac OS which could be useful in real life. There is no necessary to be a programmer to replicate it, just copy and paste the code. It maybe not interesting for everyone, but maybe for some experienced users.<br>
The first code I'd like to present is <i>3Dlock</i>. This funny 3D effect is well known in the internet, but could be useful in the office job when you leave the computer alone and would like to lock it from others. Any programs stay working in background while it is activated. Well, look on it.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/08/3dlock-script.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-56368592765993470492010-08-25T22:27:00.018+04:002010-08-25T22:59:00.765+04:00Safari Extensions Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3rB10UAYl6A-w3yAIKe6fWV1-TixyIhWPJgXuW1Z6unJUoPX0dIVdn227UyzpDdaCpAKp72q8YJm12ok3RBYSNHdY8Xx7iTFFq-uiBH4ii_hA1za1Ia-sqNs21ciKSfx1M-m/s320/Simpsons-Safari-128.png"></a></div>Recently I have noted in my Safari 5 the Safari Extensions Gallery option in 'File' menu of program. Yeah, The official Extensions Gallery was opened, but I didn't note it in spite of I follow Apple news in the net. Probably this happened because I was in vacation. When you chose this option you come to official site and can chose many Extensions which improve your Safari. If I compare Safari with Firefox I think Safari now the best browser for Mac OS. I liked to see Extensions installing without Safari restart and you're able to disable them "on the fly".<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADZFnmmMZSlnft2sXMsg2CgY20w7RgNF8C0EwjKEcZZrjOk0TkhjCZMmDE5-Xkf8mtX41e2klDZJRwmFT0dOTSbEqxMSK5RXgYGL_OYhwkBOWII2wzQdGnxu2oPMrFlmY50RR/s1600/Alpha+SafariMenu.png"></a></div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/08/safari-extensions-gallery.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-67062648206704768042010-08-25T20:46:00.000+04:002010-08-25T20:46:39.198+04:00Continue my blog...Hey, I'm back. Going to continue by blog writing and sorry my long absence. I had a long vacation due to extremal situation in the country, hard load and real vacation I had in this period of time.<br />
The begin of August was a real catastrophe for the country. Fires, high temperature 105F (+40C), CO gas. I have never seen such in my life before. Is it repetition for end of times in 2012? We'll see. So, back to work and my blog.DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-81560473192170648392010-04-18T21:59:00.012+04:002010-04-18T22:15:53.941+04:00Get 'Saved Photos' from iPod Touch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAwpmf72B_8mzWwhM2ICzJlBDvk0vFG79S-d2dDhh-XuVucLMzUKXQQFvArHWZDsluX0QTnLSLtr53FNQGHssqPPQe2DWM63sH-KISUCV1AOcDGfrYVzqtBVeusylqOzsslS4X/s320/Preview_128.png"></a></div>Once upon a time I had an idea to get screen shots I did on iPod Touch to Mac OS computer. The iTunes don't give any opportunity to do this - import iPod Touch saved photos from Photo Albums. I had to spend my time to dig about it in the Internet and found with some difficulties the legal way to do this.<br>
Here I show how to do it by Mac OS 10.6.3 Snow Leopard.<br>
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<div>What I've <a href="http://dougitdesign.com/blog/2009/12/mac-clicking-hdd-hard-drive-noise-hdapm-html/">found</a>: "This “clicking” is part of a 'power management system' that functions to save energy and reduce temperatures. For every 'click' what’s happening is the heads of the HDD are parking, and the disk platters begin to stop spinning. But then the HDD’s heads quickly unpark, and then park again, and then unpark, and sometimes this happens every couple of seconds and becomes very annoying. It is most especially annoying when using a notebook computer in a very quiet setting. The click(s) can sound just like a ping pong ball being dropped on a hard surface."<br>
</div><a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/04/mouse-inside-notebook-hard-drive.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-67706752079164715402010-02-07T23:44:00.014+03:002010-02-15T14:12:34.333+03:00How to hide Volume from user on Mac OS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-f52cxW-u4BuN2dG2t9apW75Wf_mnkrESXzNi9wim56dvh3bbc-huZP0yXR6lwbut3sXBLXPiPzQN8xPX6Co3YPaD5PyHJs75JKUncvXAUz5xqweJx_yESyYK72IN7mMXZKx/s320/imac-fun-128x128.png"></a></div>This theme is not new for Mac OS staff. Have a look on such situation - you have a public Mac with two or more hard drive volumes on it and you wanna reserve one of them for technical purposes. That means you want to rename one hard drive volume to BackUP and use it for backups only. The problem is that if you do this it will be visible for any user on this Mac and sure they definitely will write own files there.<br>
There is a way to protect it by permissions, but clear that better don't show it at all. No drive - no questions.<br>
Let use <i>Mac way</i> for it.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-hide-volume-from-user-on-mac-os.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-41511547888924369542010-01-18T00:27:00.015+03:002010-02-21T19:37:09.341+03:00File Sharing setup on Mac OS SL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBKjt5_2VQKY5fLkFWPRBFH7g0eJ012jGcy1dhWOfqEB6ANIaAib7Fd7tQCdmdiVz6ZouqMlkzhpNWxRrfspN-3KosLpy-ZpB9lo9YsQXBG4Nnrnn9W_D7VF2HpIe81SKadRW/s320/Shared-hdd-64-alpha-shadow.png"></a></div>I can't publish posts here as frequent as I like that is why I'm in deep respect to <a href="https://twitter.com/ctrld">who</a> do this. Back to sharing theme ;)<br>
Any system administrator knows that share files on local computer is a bad idea for security reasons. To transfer files better use external file servers which usually better secured. But if you have small home computer network without file servers and DNS server you have to share files somewhere. Windows 7 "home network" realization is awful (complicated unclear stuff). I always disable it. I would say it is large hole for hackers.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/01/file-sharing-setup-on-mac-os-sl.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-56899758941939770622010-01-05T21:54:00.019+03:002010-02-21T19:40:01.546+03:00Temporary disable user on Mac OS<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuaeK2QO2xMuTaZ7S_eRhklUYhEgEJ_6heqIh4zd78EuwhBb4NTox4Q7d5j6QS5f5sa_wAMQg8PvAwXIRWzzUfmwVb3pXpAu-tyr8eBoGv7WiutjEHxkoQd8232mBT3_8-F4H/s320/Finder_128x128.png"></div>This is my first post in this year. Sometimes the Mac computers located in public places. And many people coming there and do their job. But some of them may access administrator password, create own accounts, drop large files on desktop etc. Sure, the computer owner don't like it and ask trusted person to change administrator password and temporary disable such account. You ca ask - Why not simple delete it? The answer - we may not sure is there important files on user desktop. The good strategy to wait a little and if nobody ask - delete it permanently. There is one trick how to do it.<br>
<a href="http://dimig.blogspot.com/2010/01/temporary-disable-user-on-mac-os.html#more">Read more »</a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-34820116109308075342009-12-27T23:11:00.005+03:002010-02-21T19:42:28.395+03:00Split large files on Mac OSAs I wrote before I publish tips here based on my experience and tasks I have in real life. Recently I had a problem to write large file (~8Gb) onto small (~7Gb) flash stick ;) So I had to split the file onto two parts and join it later. As a console UNIX geek I chose the UNIX way on my Mac OS system.<div>The `split' command will help with it. If you need split the file do in console:</div><div class="solid-blue">$ split -b 7168m filename.dmg filename.dmg.</div><div><b>-b</b> is a new parts size in Megabytes (7168m=7Gb)</div><div>Have a note on last point letter. It is just to remember the extensions after file transfer. The extensions for parts will be: filename.dmg.aa filename.dmg.ab ...</div><div>When you plan to join files back do in console:</div><div class="solid-blue">$ cat filename.dmg.* > filename.dmg</div><div>This method is more effective and faster compare to create the segmented dmg files</div>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-84248577306458352942009-11-05T12:38:00.018+03:002010-03-18T16:13:51.216+03:00Backup copy of Mac OS installation diskThe method I explain only for personal use and not for distribution. Everyone know that DVD disks are not reliable media and there is a big chance to get the problem with drive laser or disk. So, it is a very good idea to protect the data on Mac OS installation disk. The structure there little complicated. There are some partitions on it I want to save too. If you try do it by `Disk Utility' program and create <span style="font-weight: bold;">dmg</span> image you'll lose all partitions except main one. But there is one trick to do it by CLI utility. Lets see how. This may be one stage or two stages procedure. First of one we will create <span style="font-weight: bold;">cdr</span> master image by this simple command:<br />
<div class="solid-blue">$ hdiutil create -srcdevice /dev/disk1 -format UDTO ImageName</div>Note: /dev/disk1 is your DVD drive in system.<br />
The second command for those who prefer to have <span style="font-weight: bold;">dmg</span> image:<div class="solid-blue">$ hdiutil convert -format UDZO -o ImageNameForDMG ImageNameForCDR</div><span style="font-style: italic;">I want to highlight</span> that direct to <span style="font-weight: bold;">dmg</span> command save only one main partition, so it is not an exact copy of your disk.<br />
The BASH script examples are below:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">cdr2dmg.sh</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MvMztE4NCs1jFv7BZwM1x7sZj2KNnlVl13qcjW4YwoqDP-d2_9EOmc-cCbt4BEmJ-ZwCYJfY7JMVOYlmzyavxOKHwwBncpc7PpGxHo3x6FU6CqmutztA42yUyNmAzOYO436F/s1600-h/cdr2dmg.sh.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 90px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MvMztE4NCs1jFv7BZwM1x7sZj2KNnlVl13qcjW4YwoqDP-d2_9EOmc-cCbt4BEmJ-ZwCYJfY7JMVOYlmzyavxOKHwwBncpc7PpGxHo3x6FU6CqmutztA42yUyNmAzOYO436F/s1600/cdr2dmg.sh.png" alt="View" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400585574300905410" border="0" /></a>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-76007818502605866412009-11-05T12:24:00.005+03:002010-02-21T19:50:39.132+03:00Encrypted Sparse Image Mac OSHere is a short tip how to create the Image for privacy data protection from CLI. Let's make the `sparse' to save the space on hard disk. It is `growable' one.<div class="solid-blue">$ hdiutil create -type SPARSE -size 1g -fs HFS+ \<br />
-encryption -volname SecretPlace growableTo1g</div><br />
This command create the encrypted `sparse' image in the home directory with "SecretPlace" name. The limit of this image 1Gb.DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-53127776436885886322009-10-29T12:48:00.005+03:002009-10-29T13:13:58.869+03:00My `aliases' in `.profile'To make my work in Mac OS console more friendly I use shortcuts to call usable command. Because of `.bashrc' file is not usable in Mac OS, the `aliases' should be inside `.profile' file within user folder. Here is the example my own:<blockquote style="font-weight: bold;">alias h='history -c'<br />alias df='df -h'<br />alias md='mkdir -p'<br />alias rd='rmdir'<br />alias mv='mv -i'<br />alias slink='ln -s'<br />alias sed='sed -E'<br />alias l='ls -1'<br />alias la='ls -lhAF'<br />alias ll='ls -lhF'<br />alias lt='ls -lhtrF'<br />alias l.='ls -lhtrdF .*'<br />alias ..='cd ..'<br />alias ...='cd ../..'<br />alias ....='cd ../../..'</blockquote>DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.com0