Just a warning to myself and others. If you want to run a Windows x86 Virtual Machine on a Macbook using VMWare Fusion or similar virtualization products. Buy a Macbook with an x86 Processor. The Apple M1 is an ARM archictectured processor and while there will...
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Cloudready on VMWare Fusion on MacOS
Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...
Switching PHP version on MacOS with brew
Writing a web application and using the some new bells and whistles in PHP such as $var = $var ?? $othervar; only supported in 7.4 php -v # php7.3 brew unlink [email protected] brew install [email protected]
Mounting a folder shared from VMWare Workstation of Fusion Host inside a Fedora 30 through 33 Guest
Inside the Fedora Guest Install open-vm-tools In the Virtual Machine Guest Settings Enable shared folders VMWare Workstation Pro on Fedora 33 - Shared Folders Settings VMWare Fusion on MacOS - Shared Folder Settings Reboot the guest after doing the above Commands to...
https connection to Cups NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED on MacOS Catalina
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED <= This is an error I got when connecting to the Cups Admin page see the heading below "How to fix NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED" Work-a-round: You can just use Safari and add the cert to the local trust list or see the heading below "How to fix...
Bash alias to copy ssh public key
If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy. It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen # put this into ~/.bash_profile alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee...
Setting AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE on Storage Explorer MacOS Client
The problem this is solving is failed azcopy uploads on slow internet connections. Firstly locate the AzCopyClient.js file and open it in editor vim "/Applications/Microsoft Azure Storage...
MacOS Azure Storage Explorer using azcopy indicates 100% then continues trying failed PUT’s and never completes the copy
Slow Australian NBN can't handle the expectation azcopy has about your bandwidth I have been trying to copy a 1.7GB file to Azure blob storage container and it's been failing. I've changed from Azure account login to a SAS URL and have started to investigate what is...
Warning!: MacOS Catalina will not run i386 32bit code
Just a reminder to myself to be very careful with the new update of MacOS Catalina It sounds like a number of things are going to break... I just hope I don't forget this and blindly click update when it comes out. (As of 8 Oct 2019 MacOS Catalina is released) I think...
MAC Address Changer for MacOS
If you have the need to change your MAC Address on you MacBook Pro. You can use macchanger which is a command line utility installed using home brew. brew install macchanger Then to show your current MAC address macchanger -s en0 Then to change it to something random...
MacOS Scanning – Now working with IPv6
I had problems printing and scanning from my MacOS laptop to a HP Officejet Pro 8620. I ended up fixing it by turning off IPv6 on the printer and the MacBook. But it appears that you can have IPv6 turned on and it still work. Please see below...
MacOS Mojave Application Upgrade Tweaks
Docker Community Edition Docker Community Edition runs and you can start a container from the command line, so the native virtualization layer seems to be functioning, but the Kitematic application complains of missing a 'native setup'. But after several reboots this...
Example Curl POST request for XML document from CakePHP
This is an example of using the curl command to request a CakePHP URL and post form data to it. It uses xmllint to format the output and highlight (under MacOS) to colorize the output #!/bin/sh # save as curlIt.sh curl -s \ -d...
Brew Wine on MacOS Ugly Fonts
Wine 3.0.1 MacOS 10.13.5 If you have recently done a brew install wine and found that suddenly your fonts are ugly. A work-a-round is: to remove the current version of XQuartz (2.7.11) and downgrade to XQuartz-2.7.9.dmg install the wine stable version...
Installing Mod Perl on the macOS Sierra Homebrew Version of Apache 2.4.xx
Do this svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/trunk/ mod_perl-2.0 cd mod_perl-2.0 perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.25/bin/apxs # this doesn't do anything but it tells you where # apxs will put mod_perl.so...
MacOS doesn’t need Cups-PDF because of this
I recently tried to install Cups-PDF on macOS Sierra but it failed. However because macOS pretty much prints PDF native you just have to go fishing in /private/var/spool/cups and fish out the PDF data files and rename them and you have a copy of the file you want....
[SOLVED] MacOS Sierra Scanning Fail
Fixed It! Update: So I just made a change to the printer configuration NOT the Mac Sierra software and the scanner is now working. Log into the OfficeJet Pro 8620 Printer using the web interface and do the following change to the General Network Protocol Settings...
VMWare Fusion conflicts with encfs on MacOS Sierra
I had a work-a-round for osxfuse not working https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/mac-osxfuseencfs-conflicts-with-vmware-fusion-7-1-2-so-try-safe-1-4 but http://www.getsafe.org no longer works since the update to MacOS Sierra EncFS Password: the OSXFUSE file system is not...