UPDATE FOR SIERRA 10.12.4 AND UP This only works on macOS versions prior to macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195) as starting from this version it is necessary to disable the System Integrity Protection – this is not covered in...
Author - Gábor Hargitai
Running lengthy operations (such as remote sync, video compression) is preferred to be done in a screen session: among other things, it enables you to do something else while your commands run in the background. For the most part...
Being on the road (or just away from your Time Capsule) for longer periods of time may cause a surprising dent on your free disk space counter. As time marches on, those who have Time Machine enabled will soon realize...
Doing automated backups is a must for every sysadmin worth its’ salt. If you happen to administer a smaller pool of servers/hosts it is more than likely that you have your backups tarballed and stored somewhere relatively...
There comes a time in every sysadmin’s life when a second Virtual Machine Center is added to the inventory of awesomeness and soon You’ll find yourself reevaluating your current setup from a load balancing poing of...
Having undelivered mails due to numerous errors is not nice – having all of our sent emails rejected by a particular host is nothing short of a nightmare. Google has a strict policy on deciding whether it would allow a mail...
After a recent upgrade to the Veertu virtualization software, many users – including myself – have been surprised to find out that the Shared Folder with the Mac OS X host has all but disappeared into oblivion...
There are times when we do not want our scripts or programs to outputy any kind of message to the standard output – like for instance if we have multiple scripts in our crontabs. If you didn’t have your crontab...
Building your very own Ubuntu Server from Scratch is as great way to get a grasp at how things work under the hood, not to mention you’ll end up with a router that does what it is told to do and nothing more. I’m...
It is always good to know just how much TCP / UDP packets can we squeeze out from our network interfaces. Be it that we are building our very own router or just plain testing out our network environment. Usually there comes a...