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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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How do I access a local web server on my laptop from another computer?

I have an app running on my computer at 127.0.0.1:3000 I would like to access that app from an iPhone connected to the same network. I have done this before but blanking out on how I did it. Any ideas?
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How can I get CPU count and total RAM from the OS X command line?

How can I get CPU count and total RAM from the OS X command line?
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How to reclaim all/most free space from a sparsebundle on OS X

Is there a possibility to "defragmentize" a sparse bundle image and reclaim (most) of the free space? Here is the background: I am using sparse bundles and every now and then I want to reclaim space from them so I run: hdiutil compact…
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What does @ mean in -rw-r--r--@?

-rw-r--r--@ 1 abc staff 1088808 8 31 09:55 marcus_gow Anyone knows this, what's it for?
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Where are OS X man pages stored?

I have installed iftop on Mac OS X 10.7 from source but the installer didn't copy the man page to where it should be. I have no idea where it should be either. Does anyone know where I should cp it to? I found this thread…
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What is your list of programs to install to Mac OS X after a fresh install?

Similar to the Windows question, but for Mac OS X. I am looking for others' list of program that absolutely must be installed to a fresh install of Windows before going any further. I hope to compile a list here to use as reference for all new…
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Mac OS Web Sharing - where are the apache logs?

I've got web sharing enabled (System Preferences / Sharing / Web Sharing ) on my mac os x machine (10.6). I'd like to inspect the apache logs to look at the user agent string. Where are these logs kept? Answers on here appear to suggest…
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How can you determine the version of OS X on a machine that doesn't boot?

I have been given a Mac to repair after a failed update, and may not be able to get reliable information about which update was being applied, or, indeed, to which operating system. If the system would boot, it'd be obvious which OS it was running,…
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Good graphical HTTP trace program for OSX?

Does anyone have any good suggestions for a graphical HTTP trace program for OSX? I'm looking for something similar to Fiddler or HTTPWatch. I already use tcpdump for network traces, but that's far to much info for what I'm trying to accomplish,…
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Remove large file on Mountain Lion when disk is full

I ran a process that was writing stderr log messages to a file and didn't realize how fast the log file would grow. The result is that the log file filled up the entire rest of my hard drive and now when I try to remove the file using rm, the…
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Mac OS X install on PC Hard Drive?

I have a brand new desktop system that i'd like to put os x on. its a brand new system inside and out. i built it from scratch. its an intel p4 3.2 ghz. I also have a MacBook which is about a year old and I love os x. I have the os x disc that came…
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How to maintain a macports installation

I've used the apt family of package managers for some time and started using macports last year when I got a laptop. I'm at a bit of a loss at the best way to keep packages up-to-date though, and any other maintenance tasks I should be looking out…
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Does Darwin (MacOS kernel) do memory overcommit?

For example, Linux has vm.overcommit_memory which is on by default. Windows does not have memory overcommit. Does MacOS? Is it configurable? What's the default setting?
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MAC OS X - screencast

what can I use to record an screencast at os x leopard? Freeware are prefered. Regards
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Access rights issue in MAC

I have a Mac machine running Mac OS Version 10.6.6. I have added my mac machine to a domain controller (which runs Windows version of server) and allow users from domain controller to login. Because of our server migration, we removed the mac…
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