glaikit: n., chiefly Scottish
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
that’ll teach me to mess around with photo booth and Catherine’s iMac.
Posts Tagged ‘mac’
so, why would anyone buy a Mac now?
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
seq for OS X
Friday, February 8th, 2008It has always irked me that OS X doesn’t have the seq command (I am easily irked). Brian Peterson’s old e-mail Re: seq from core utils has it, but the link to sh-utils doesn’t work any more, since the project has been archived. Here’s the new link: http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/sh-utils/. Compile it as Brian suggested, and all will be well.
$ seq 1 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Joy!
(at least 99% of you will be mystified why anyone would want this.)
a small form of happiness is
Sunday, March 25th, 2007… a USB key with the irritating U3 software uninstalled.
Seriously, U3 is a major annoyance if you:
- use Mac
- use Linux
- work on a PC with locked-down permissions
- work on a PC with a one-letter drive gap (like having
D:andF:, but noE:); U3’s read-only system will appear in the gap, but your data won’t be accessible.
(It’s not really U3’s fault. The fact that Windows still has drive letters amazes me; why don’t they go for the whole 70s thing and have punch cards and gargantuan 5MB hard disk packs?)
All four of the above apply to me, so u3 uninstall.exe is my friend.
When you really haven’t chosen not to trust: Citrix, Mac OS X, and Entrust certificates
Thursday, December 14th, 2006This is one that the support desk of my employer really should’ve answered, but they gave their usual, “You mentioned Macintosh in your e-mail, so this conversation stops here” response.
Anyway, they’ve just upgraded their Citrix access, and what used to work now gives the rather cruddy response:
Just what SSL Error 0: You have not chosen to trust “Entrust.net Secure Server Certification Authority”,the issuer of the server’s security certificate. Error number: 183 is supposed to mean to anyone, I don’t know. (Well, actually, I do know, but in rants like this it’s customary to feign ignorance in a huffy manner. Work with me here, people.)
So, to fix this:
- Make sure that Citrix ICA Client is installed
- Go to entrust.net/developer and click on Download Root Certificates
- Select Personal Use, and click on Download Certificates
- Download entrust_ssl_ca.cer and entrust_ssl_ca.der to your desktop
- Open a terminal (it’s in Applications/Utilities), and enter the following:
cd /Applications/Citrix\ ICA\ Client/keystore/cacerts/
cp -p ~/Desktop/entrust_ssl_ca.* .
ln -s entrust_ssl_ca.cer entrust_ssl_ca.crt - Exit the terminal, and try your Citrix session again.
There might be some unnecessary steps there, and this might all be fixed by downloading the latest release of the ICA client, but this works for me now.
