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Tag: OS X

Install Leafnode on OS X

Install Leafnode on OS X

29th September, 201428th October, 2014 Marcel StörNo Comments

I never found an up-to-date and conclusive article on how to install Leafnode on OS X. So, I decided to publish one that is based on Configuring LeafNode on OSX by David Thole written in May 2010. He’s everywhere (GitHub, Twitter, YouTube, Stackoverflow, etc.) but his own site is often down and, therefore, the link […]

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iPhoto order language is wrong

15th May, 201315th May, 2013 Marcel StörNo Comments

For a very long time I was annoyed that the iPhoto order language is wrong for me each and every time I order print products from Apple. I live in Switzerland, speak mainly German and English, on my Mac I use English as the system language yet the iPhoto order language is always French (which […]

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Solving Maven install: “unzip: command not found”

23rd October, 201124th March, 2013 Marcel Stör2 Comments

With a newly set up Maven project I tried deploying the site using mvn site:deploy. The command kept failing with the following error Embedded error: Error performing commands for file transfer Exit code: 0 – bash: unzip: command not found for the longest time. I tried all kinds of funny things although I was 100% […]

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Mac hangs at blue screen (login window crash)

17th August, 201028th March, 2016 Marcel Stör10 Comments

I recently managed to mess up my Mac mini while resetting PRAM and NVRAM. I did reset them indeed but something got corrupted because the mini would hang at the blue screen with the spinning beach ball re-appearing time and time again. Strangely I could still connect to it with SSH and file sharing worked, […]

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Printing booklets on OS X

30th June, 201022nd October, 2018 Marcel StörNo Comments

On Windows machines I’m used to using FinePrint to pre-process every document before it’s actually sent to the printer (2 on 1 page, 4 on 1, booklet, watermark, template, etc). From that suite of features what I miss the most on OS X is the ability to print booklets. Turns out there are at least […]

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Modify the default i.e. “Standard” printer presets in OS X

28th February, 20104th July, 2011 Marcel Stör3 Comments

Looking for a way to modify the default printer presets i.e. the presets called “Standard” in OS X I came across a Mac OS X Hints article that talks about the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist file. However, what I found way more interesting is that apparently OS X provides a web interface for CUPS at http://localhost:631/ for the […]

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Swisscom Huwei E220 on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

18th November, 20092nd April, 2010 Marcel Stör3 Comments

On a new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard the Huwei E220 USB modem (from Swisscom in my case) didn’t work anymore. The USB dongle mounts and the files on the mounted drive were visible but the Unlimited Connection Manager (UCM) installer contained in the mounted drive crashed always. It’s obviously not compatible with 10.6. To […]

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Wake-On-Lan, WOL, not working in Snow Leopard

19th October, 200928th February, 2010 Marcel StörNo Comments

After upgrading my Mac mini from Leopard to Snow Leopard it did no longer wake from sleep when I sent the magic wake-on-lan package. So, I checked the network and energy settings and noticed that Snow Leopard’s new Wake-On-Demand (WOD ?) feature was disabled. I didn’t change that and started to wonder why WOL didn’t […]

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4×4 trail along the Kunene

18th July, 20091st March, 2010 Marcel StörNo Comments

I slept like a baby! The omnipresent rush of the Kunene river must have lulled my mind. As I get up at 7:10, being the last of the party, I plan to spend some “quality time” at the river alone. Impossible! Getting ready for the day, taking a quick shower, putting down the roof tent, […]

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