OSX

Just a quick note to remind myself how I fixed the problem installing VirtualBox 5.2.10 on a Mac laptop running 10.13.4. The installation seemed to go well until it reached the end and reported failing to install. I’ve had this issues for a few weeks already and Google for solution seems to have hit and missed until today. I finally found a solution posted here: https://github.com/docksal/docksal/issues/417. Basically, I need to go the System Preferences and tick the box to allow ‘System software from developer “Oracle America, Inc....

At work, we want to backup an external disk that’s connected to the Mac machine using rsnapshot. In order to do that, the external drive needs to be mounted, and this happens when a user logs in to the Mac. The problem is that when nobody logs in, the external drive is not mounted and rsnapshot will fail. The fix should be easy if there is away to mount the external drive without a user logs in....

Work recently acquired a few MacBook laptops to be used and shared by staff. Though the computing staff is not expected to have immense knowledge about OS X, when things break down we are the first point of contact. The last time I used a Mac machine extensively was around 2007. Then I switched to Debian and could never look back. Anyway, there must be lot of new things and I’ll try document or post snippets here as I learn new things....

So how do you transfer your photos from the iPhone 3G to your laptop running OS X if you don’t have iPhoto app? — Easy, just use the buit in app called Image Capture. The app can be run from: Finder -> Applications -> Image Capture Now, you can either download some or all photos by clicking on either one of the bottons as shown in the screenshot. Remember that you should have the iPhone connected to your copmuter, otherwise you would see the message saying the no device found or connected....