About MacResearch By joel at Sun, Dec 18 2005 2:06pm Mission MacResearch.org is an open and independent community for scientists using Mac OS X and related hardware in their research. It is the mission of this site to cultivate a knowledgeable and vibrant community of researchers to exchange ideas and information, build a community knowledge-base, and collectively escalate the prominence of Apple technologies in the scientific research community.
Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track.
Mac Imaging Software: clone a master disk image to a computer's hard disk while that disk image is hosted locally, on a network via AFP, NFS or multicast, or on the internet via HTTP.
CUPS-PDF is a backend module for CUPS (Mac OS X’s printing system) by Volker C. Behr that, rather than printing to a device, prints straight to PDF files.
On this page we want to instruct you on how to install and setup GnuPG (for Mac OS X) to encrypt your mail and textfiles. Detailed Instructions on GnuPG can be found on the projects website. Furthermore we will introduce you to some useful tools that ease your work with GnuPG.
DiscCloud demonstrates Virtual Mac "Desktop in the Cloud" running concurrent Flash, Quicktime, iTunes, Youtube, Keynote and Pages, and Safari applications. The realtime performance demo took place over an Internet connection spanning 800 miles, and 16 hops, accessed by an 8 year old iMac (PowerPC) with 512MB RAM.. See the live video on DiscCloud!
Many of the reasons I do not find .mac useful are the same reasons I encourage others to use it. My needs are different than the average computer user. This is not an "I hate .mac" article but rather an explanation of the motivation and methods I used to
inderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs
C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstallation,Setup requires 4 additional megabytes of free space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again.
OSX has what I would call an undocumented feature of the operating system- the portable home directory. Basically, it keeps a user's home directory sync'd up between a network share and the local pc. If you are not on the network you work on the local hom
In Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple introduced a new system startup program called launchd. The launchd daemon takes over many tasks from cron, xinetd, mach_init, and init, which are UNIX programs that traditionally have handled system initialization, called systems scripts, run startup items, and generally prepared the system for the user. And they still exist on Mac OS X Tiger, but launchd has superseded them in many instances. These venerable programs are widely used by system administrators, open source developers, managers of web services, even consumers who want to use cron to manage iCal scheduling, and they can still be called with launchd. The launchd daemon also provides a big performance boost to your system. At any given time, only those daemons that are actually used are launched
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server have been designed to fit into existing enterprise directory services. Appleâ„¢’s extensible Open Directory architecture integrates with standards-based LDAP directory services, including Sun JAVA Enterprise Directory Server and IBM Directory Server, as well as with proprietary ones such as Microsoftâ„¢s Active Directory.
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server have been designed to fit into existing enterprise directory services. Appleâ„¢’s extensible Open Directory architecture integrates with standards-based LDAP directory services, including Sun JAVA Enterprise Directory Server a
Similar in concept to group policies in Active Directory, Mac OS X Server's managed preferences allow administrators to define virtually the entire user experience and restrict user access to many types of local and remote resources. These include applica
Lithium is a single-application solution for network, server and appliance monitoring. With a stunning monitoring console for both Mac OS X and Windows, Lithium is an end-to-end solution for monitoring your network infrastructure.
The Boot Process From the moment a user turns on a Mac OS X system to beyond the time the login window appears, Mac OS X executes a boot sequence that readies the system for use. If you provide system services to all users, you might need to execute some code during this process. The following sections explain the basic boot sequence and the places where your code can tie into it.
The book "Mac OS X Internals" (ISBN 0321278542) describes the architecture and design of Apple's operating system. The book is targeted at anybody who is curious about Mac OS X and has a system-level interest in operating systems. At a very high (and simp
You don't have to spend a lot of money to build a useful Mac software library. I've grouped freeware and Open Source software into three categories. I call the first category Favorites. These are applications and utilities that I find I use frequently for
NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes. It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
Likewise Enterprise is an enterprise software solution that allows seamless integration of Linux®, UNIX® and Mac systems with Microsoft® Active Directory™. Organizations of all sizes running mixed networks and mixed identity management systems (such
The rEFIt Project rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.
rsync hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem. The destination system can be any OS and filesystem that supports rsync, so you can use rsync to archive Mac OS X files to servers running Linux, Solaris, et cetera.
Stefan Constantinescu of IntoMobile has written a lengthy piece dissecting the long, tortuous history of the Newton II/Apple Tablet/iTablet/Tablet Mac. It's a pretty comprehensive look at seven years worth of speculation, rumor, outlandish analyst claims, more speculation, more rumor, and event after event with no release of what's become Apple's most infamous vaporware product.