After tutorials Part 1 & Part 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic OSX Lion 10.7 build and then introducing a user account and clearing the set up assistants, time to tweak some preferences on OSX 10.7 for the first time boot to include elements such as computer name, network, time zone and set …
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Create an updated image of OS X Lion 10.7 with a Local User Account using InstaDMG
InstaDMG Part 2[/caption] Part 2 – Tutorial of the basics of using InstaDMG with OSX Lion 10.7. Please refer to Part 1 to get familiar with the basics of creating a simple ‘out of the box’ InstaDMG image of OSX 10.7. Moving on from the initial image created with InstaDMG which will boot the Mac …
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Make a Bootable USB Drive from OS X Lion Using the Recovery Partition
On every OS X Lion installation a hidden partition is created to enable a method for Lion to be reinstalled on the machine, it is known as the recovery partition or drive and is 650mb in size. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.7 already installed – but no …
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How to make a bootable OSX 10.7 Lion Disc or Drive from the downloaded Lion.app
I know Apple are going away from optical media, pushing it the same way as the old floppy disk but heck it’s still nice to have a bootable OSX disk or drive in times of need. After downloading the Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Lion”, control click it to bring …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 7.22 on Mac OS X 10.7 , 10.6
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Lion or Snow Leopard provides. This tutorial assumes a certain degree of comfort in …
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Back up a VPS Web Host using SSH and SCP on Mac OSX 10.6
Using SSH and SCP you can copy your remote web VPS backups to your local machine in a secure manner and then by creating a back up script you can either run the script adhoc or schedule the process with a user launch agent. The first step is to create a SSH passwordless connection between …
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Scripting OS X Launchd Agent to run a Backup Command
In OS X 10.7 the launchd process is the process that kicks off all processes and launches launch daemons and launch agents. This effectively is what cron and cronjobs are to the general Unix/Linux environment Launch Daemons are typically system process whereas Launch Agents are processes that can be run by users. Launch Daemons are …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 6 on Mac OS X
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 6 version on Mac OS X This assumes the web sharing method is the standard OS X user web sharing service as shared from ~/Sites, the shared drupal directory will be called “drupal“. The mysql database is called drupal and the mysql user is root, the password for …
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