VirtualBox enjoys great popularity where it is required to virtualize common operating systems for conventional use-cases at no cost. In comparison with other hypervisors such as VMware Workstation, VirtualBox only offers basic graphics acceleration – … Read more
An advantage of using Kerberos along with SSH is that it makes entering passwords obsolete when establishing connections. Unfortunately this is not working out of the box under OS X in the first place: $ kinit cstan@STANKOWIC.LOC cstan@STANKOWIC.LOC’s … Read more
The middle mouse button offers extended functionality in the most software – e.g. it can be used in web browsers to open or close tabs. When using the integrated trackpad of a MacBook or the Apple Magic … Read more
Attentive readers of my blog or Twitter feed might have seen that I’m also spending my time on OS X relevant topics for two months. The reason for this is that I switched the operating … Read more
The Apple App Store is not the only way to installation additional applications under OS X – another way is to install .pkg files (which have been created by the Apple Installer Framework). Unfortunately not … Read more
Files can be easily transfered from an Android device to Windows computer using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Unfortunately this protocol is not supported in Finder which means that you need to connect your smartphone as … Read more
OpenVPN connections can be established under Mac OS X using the free software Tunnelblick – I kept in mind. Using the most recent OS X version Mavericks this is a problem. The stable version of … Read more
By default, OS X installation media isn’t shipped with Macintosh computers – there is also no information about purchasing installation media. It seems that Apple wants to prevent that “homebrew macs” are built. This is … Read more
Auch Freunde der Kommandozeile benötigen irgendwann mal eine grafische Oberfläche. Während man unter Windows zur Weiterleitung von X auf XMing zurückgreift, benötigt man unter Mac OS X hingegen X11. X11 kann entweder seperat oder zusammen … Read more
Ja – ich bin immer noch unerfahren im Umgang mit Mac OS X. Und so bin ich heute erstmal in ein Fettnäpfchen getreten, als ich ein ISO-Abbild auf eine CD brennen wollte. Ein Rechtsklick auf … Read more
