Tag Archives: mac os x

Fixing Mountain Lion Runaway parentalcontrolsd

Posted on 22 February 2013 by James Reuben Knowles

How to correct parentalcontrolsd running with a high CPU load under Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). Continue reading →

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Using MySQL Administrator Over a Secure (ssh) Connection

Posted on 20 January 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

MySQL Administrator is not designed to work over a secure connection like ssh. By using ssh tunneling, you can connect to your remote MySQL servers from your workstation. MySQL Tools Download the MySQL Tools package. Install the MySQL Tools package. … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Subversion on OS X

Posted on 12 January 2009 by James Reuben Knowles

The default Subversion on the Mac is 1.4. How to upgrade to 1.5. Continue reading →

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How to Unfreeze the OS X Desktop

Posted on 19 December 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

Occasionally the OS X desktop freezes with enough abuse. This is how to get it working again. Continue reading →

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Workaround for FreeMind OutOfMemory Exception (Mac OS X)

Posted on 15 December 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

FreeMind on OS X has not been working. Rather, it’s been giving me an out of memory exception. Here is a workaround. Continue reading →

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Getting nmap to Work on Mac OS X

Posted on 4 December 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

This is how to get nmap to work on OS X. Continue reading →

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How to delete all photos off of an iPhone

Posted on 24 October 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

Colin published a great article on how to delete all photos off of an iPhone. Continue reading →

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Improve Mac OS X performance under load by disabling spindump.

Posted on 14 October 2008 by James Reuben Knowles

When the Mac is being pushed hard and the disk is trashing, try disabling spindump to reduce the load on the system. Continue reading →

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