There are times when you need to get a terminal window during system start up but the system must not be booted into a user environment. That is to say, that you want it to be in the root “x windows” session similar to the one that is launched when you just installed the Mac. Continue reading Getting a Terminal window on start up (X with root permissions)
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Snow Leopard Server with Round Cube
The new Lion Server makes use of round cube as a web front end.. but i didn’t really want to update my Snow Leopard Server. So i just installed round cube instead. Using the instructions from http://diymacserver.com/mail/snow-leopard/install-roundcube-webmail/, managed to get it up in a jiffy.
A nicely written HOWTO worth checking out.
Disable Dashboard to save RAM
I personally don’t really like and use Dashboard, so in effort to conserve RAM, i turn it off. Here is how i did it in Lion
$ defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
$ killall Dock
Unhide your Library folder in Lion
If you want to unhide your Library folder in Lion, here is what you do… (it comes hidden by default).