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Enable the OSX Lion FTP server

Jon Hibbins — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:04:31 +0000

Apple have dropped the FTP Server support in Mac OX Lion.However the FTP Server can be activated via the command line.

You can still enable it with the command line. To start it type the Terminal command:

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

To stop it:

sudo -s launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

Jon Hibbins — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:10:49 +0000

UK Holiday’s are provided by Apple servers so that you can add them to your calendar:

Just subscribe to : webcal://ical.mac.com/ical/UK32Holidays.ics

Jon Hibbins — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:20:09 +0000

find . -iname ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r

Jon Hibbins — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:11:02 +0000

Jon Hibbins — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:02:34 +0000

You can kill all the PHP processes in Unix with the following command :

killall php

Jon Hibbins — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:06:51 +0000

Jon Hibbins — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:45:14 +0000

Your hardware and software has changed my life and is a big part of who I am

Jon Hibbins — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:45:59 +0000

In Mac OSX 10.5+ (Leapard and Lion)

To clear DNS cache in Leopard, open up a terminal window and use the following command:

dscacheutil -flushcache

In Mac Mac OSX 10.4 and below

lookupd -flushcache

Jon Hibbins — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:21:09 +0000

1) Open a Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal).
2) Edit the hosts file (Type your user password when asked).

$ sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

3) Press press control-o to save the file.
4) Press enter on the filename prompt.
5) Press control-x to exit the editor.

Jon Hibbins — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:59:15 +0000

Create a Normal Playlist Called “All Music”
Goto your library, Select all your Music and Drag it to the “All Music” Playlist
Create a Smart Playlist Called “Missing Music” where Playlist is not “All Music” (it’s usefull to exempt Video and Podcasts too)
Congratulations you can now go find your missing tracks, Delete the files or Re-Import your data