More and more I am encountering that i need to mount a network share (mainly my IT folder) from other peoples Mac’s. The user obviously doesn’t have read access to this folder and their username and password is saved in the keychain.
I have found a way to mount it avoiding using the users saved credentials. In the safari address bar type the following.
afp://username:password@server/share
This will mount the share using the credentials you supply.
I have had a mac that was looking for an old OSX Software update server that has been offline for the past Christ knows how long!
Needless to say anything i have tried (deleting preference files, The software update app) and a whole bunch of other stuff didn’t work!
Until i searched and found this - http://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-reset-the-software-update-url-in-os-x/
The Blog itself was something I had tried before. But – The comment by Jacob was a winner!
sudo find / -type f -name com.apple.SoftwareUpdate\* -exec rm -f {} \;
This worked for me, but if you try it yourself – please not it is at your own risk!
Is your Gmail displaying like this?
I tried to fix this a number of ways. Logging out of chrome, deleting my user, resync’ing chrome with everything. Eventually all of this worked. But i found out an easier way……
CMD & O Keys pushed together resets the zoom level back to default and fixed all my problems…
I found a few blogs and things telling people how to get AFP shares to work with Lion. The only one I found that worked however was an official apple one here
1) Open Terminal.
Execute the following commands:
2) sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
3) sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1
Make an AFP connection to another system so that the AFP Client preference file will be filled in with the default set of values. Note: You must connect as a registered user, not as a guest.
Execute the following command to see a list of the disabled User Authentication Methods (UAMs)
4) defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams
By default the disabled UAMs are “Cleartxt Passwrd”, “MS2.0″, “2-Way Randnum exchange”, and “DHCAST128″. Note: if you don’t see a list, restart your computer and repeat step 3.
To enable one of these UAMs, remove it from the list of disabled UAMs. For example, this command enables DHCAST128 by removing it from the list of disabled authentication methods:
5) sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array “Cleartxt Passwrd” “MS2.0″ “2-Way Randnum exchange”
After the desired changes have been made, restore the permissions on the Preferences folder with this command:
6) sudo chmod o-w /Library/Preferences
For #5 I used the below as the command. As I wasnt sure which UAM was the one I needed to disable. (However I know that this worked.)
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_disabled_uams -array
Today a Lady was emailing me, An at the end of every email there was a “J”. Her name did not start with a J. So i was a bit confused…..
It turns out that “J” is displayed when a Smiley gets lost in different email systems.
I thought I had it figured out, and so I went looking to see & I was right. Have you ever typed a smiley 
, and whatever program you were in automatically made it into a smiley? Well, sometimes the code that makes that happen gets lost as it goes through the various email programs and ends up as just a "J"
Update for precision:
- Office use MS Word as HTML e-mail editor
- The "smiley" is replaced by a Winding font character.
- The uppercase "J" is a smiley in the Winding character set.
- The "J" will appear each time the text is kept but the font info is lost.
Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_people_put_a_J_at_the_end_of_email
So there you have it. Its a smiley face, lost in translation!
Haha Quality!
