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...
Category - OS X
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...
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...
By default, Apple decided to ship version 2.6.9 of rsync with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. For the most part it gets the job done, however, not so long ago I came across the problem of having to sync directories between remote...
Oftentimes we find ourselves in dire need of some extra disk space. Given the chance that you do a lot of iOS / Mac OS / WatchOS development some temporary junk can pile up over time – and given the size of your projects...
Open up a Terminal and paste in the following commands to enable or disable the built-in FTP server. To turn on the FTP server, paste this into the command prompt: sudo -s launchctl load -w...
We’ll pretend you have ffmpeg up and running, with the necessary build options – for more info on that, refer to the FFmpeg Compilation Guide. To convert to an iPod nano with a max screen size of 320×180, issue...
Suppose that we have our brew up and running and we’d like to do some video conversion, namely something to x265. To do this, first it is advisable to install ffmpeg using brew by issuing the following command: brew install...