Joe-Ma Help with Unix, Apple, Web, Mikrotik and Cisco

Have you ever gotten a winmail.dat file in Entourage or Mail.app or even Thunderbird not to mention any other mail client? So you are wondering how do I open winmail.dat on an Apple OS X machine well here it is. Not that I get them often, but .... On the odd occasion i will get an email that is sent to me that has a winmail.dat attachment. This is a mail from Microsoft Outlook. Although there are ways of disabling the option to send TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) files. its generally easier to just convert the file yourself and leave the sender out of it. There are a few ways of dealing with these pesky files. 1. you can download and use TNEF Enough. 2. you can use my script although there is more work involved its probably a little easier once setup. (OSX Tiger Needed) The Requirements. 1. OSX Tiger or above with Apple Developer Tools Installed. 2. Automator 3. Darwin Ports installed 4. Install TNEF 5. Download my winmail script. The How To: 1. Installing XCode Tools. I...

A suggestions the first time you start it up make sure that the updates are not mirrored or enabled. In the Apple Server Admin tool select Software Update the select Settings you will see a general tab make sure that Automatically mirror updates from Apple and Automatically enable updates are not selected click save and then start the service. Once the service has started and everything seems fine and you have no errors in the software update log file select the updates tab and select the updates that you need or want to enable If you want to enable all of them that’s fin but only do a few at a time like 15 to 20 unless you have ample bandwidth available. As the server will go and download all the updates that are selected at the last glance I had that was about 4 GB Once you have setup and configured your Apple OS X Tiger server for Software Updates you can check out the below information If you have Apple Remote Desktop you can send a Unix command to change the software update URL. S...

So you have reinstalled or installed Apple OS X 10.4 server. And you have noticed that no matter what you do you can’t get the Apple OS X Server to talk to your Server Monitor application all that you see is “Waiting for response” where you should be seeing other info like the Drives Temperatures Fan Speeds etc. I have only noticed this on a 10.4 Server where I installed the Server in Target Disk Mode using Firewire. The Xserve is a G5 dual with no graphics card (also called a headless server) The server was installed via a G4 Powerbook. Anyway When the system installs it seems to check the hardware now because you have mounted the OS X Server Hard drive onto your other Mac (non Xserve) my guess is that it does not / can not probe the correct hardware, and since the Apple Powerbook is not a G5 Xserve it can not configure the hardware monitor properly. Anyway to get around this, first make sure that you are in fact connected to the IP address of the Apple Xserve and you don’t have and u...

This is something that I find pretty handy: I am often ssh'd inter different servers or connected to routers, I usually have 4 Terminal windows open. One of the big things is that by default they are not active / selected just by having my mouse over a specific window and you have to actually click on the Terminal window that you are actually using at that point in time. So if you are dragging and dropping text between 2 Terminal windows you have to copy from source window then select destination window then paste. Or you can enable the mouse over active stuff. You can do this by opening a terminal window and typing defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES to enable or defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string NO to disable This Hint could possibly be used for other applications too but I am not 100% sure about that. In theory you could do the same with multiple Safari windows if you don't use tabbed browsing or if you wanted it for so...