Did it occur to you on MacOS that you could not delete a file in your home folder that obviously belongs to you? This is simply because of some flags. You can show them like this: ls -lO test.txt -rw-r–r– 1 christian staff uchg 7 Feb 2 10:11 test.txt When you try to delete it […]
To install dnsmasq, you need to have installed homebrew first. Have a look at this article if you haven't got brew yet. You can install dnsmasq like this: brew install dnsmasq Next up, copy the configuration files and start dnsmasq: cp $(brew list dnsmasq | grep /dnsmasq.conf.example$) /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf sudo cp $(brew list dnsmasq | grep […]
Just type the following command on a command line: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" The output should be similar to this: ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/… /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1 ==> The following directories will be made group writable: /usr/local/. /usr/local/bin /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /usr/local/share /usr/local/share/man /usr/local/share/man/man1 /usr/local/share/doc ==> The following directories will have their group […]
It took me some time to figure it out, perhaps I can save someone else's time: sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/VirtualBoxStartup.sh restart
You may need to remove an application from your launchpad from time to time – an installation that did not work correctly or whatever. Just open a terminal and execute the following commands: sudo sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db "DELETE from apps WHERE title='<appname>';" killall Dock Whereas you replace <appname> with the name of your application, for […]
Open a terminal and execute the following command: Until Mac OSX 10.4: lookupd -flushcache Mac OSX 10.5 and newer: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
Obviously there is a bug when trying to open JNLP files on Mac OS X using Chrome, Safari, Firefox or any other browser. In Chrome just let download the file once, then, in the download bar click on the small arrow and select "Always open files of this type" (it does not work if your […]
I found this tool and it's quite useful if you need to run VPN via SSH on Linux or Mac OS. You can download the tool from here via git or as a zip file. git clone https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle.git Then go to your sshuttle folder and start your proxy like this: ./sshuttle –dns -vvr <user>@<host> 0/0 <user> […]