If you have been looking for a way to make the font in the sidebar of OSX Finder and Mail small and have been looking for a way to make that happen, here’s the easily overlooked setting in Preferences – General.
Make it happen!
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Change hidden flag in OSX
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There are four ways to hide a file in Mac OS X Finder.
1. It hides files that begin with .Fix: rename the file
2. If there is a .hidden file in a directory, it hides all the files in that directory that are listed in .hidden Fix: remove the file’s name from .hidden 3. It has the hidden flag set. Solution: (in the terminal) chflags nohidden /Path/to/file |
Reference from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=597097
General Lion Server Notes
Some general Lion server setup notes
Some notes on setting up Lion server and titbits of information related to it. Chronologically edited with latest tests and observations on top.
Setting up a transparent OSX Software update server
There has been many instructions on how to setup a software update server (SUS) on the mac using OSX Server. However, in closed environments, changing multiple clients using “defaults write” to point the SUS to the internal machine might not be feasible.
Recently, i came across a document by way of a colleague, on how to set up a transparent SUS making use of the same address as apple on the network and how to “reflect” the relevant paths to a server in the local network. Continue reading Setting up a transparent OSX Software update server