Category: Operating Systems

• February 11, 2014

To start VNC viewer access you would need to execute: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -clientopts -setvncpw -vncpw mypasswd -restart -agent -privs -all To stop VNC viewer access you would need to execute: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -configure -access -off Both of these commands can be accessed from the terminal window. […]

• August 30, 2013

As a linux administrator I utilize cron jobs whenever possible to automate periodic tasks. This is a great tool to handle backups, data pulls, etc but I don’t like that the results of these jobs are locked up in the local account of my system. Luckily, there is an easy way to handle forwarding these […]

• June 22, 2013

The other day I found an old Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder and thought that it could be useful.  The first thing I did was put some new batteries in it and connect it to my desktop (running Ubuntu 12.4).  Nothing…!  A quick Google and I found this page and installed the software from the odvr […]

• April 19, 2013

I have used my Asus ux31 Ultrabook for over a year and I really enjoy the form factor, especially when I am traveling.  I work with a lot of Linux servers and have traditionally used Windows on my client machines and I use a lot of Adobe products but here recently I have been working […]

• September 28, 2012

Service Name: postfix Config File: /etc/postfix/main.cf Add the following at the beginning of the config file and set appropriately: myhostname = [hostname].[domain] mydomain = [domain] myorigin = $myhostname inet_interfaces = $myhostname To add a relay host add the following line under “INTERNET OR INTRANET” relayhost = [relay hostname].[domain] (example: mailx.domain.com) Source: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_an_RHEL_6_Postfix_Email_Server