Firefox Won’t Open Profile Fix

This is caused sometimes when Firefox crashes. To fix open up terminal and type in:

find /pathtouserlibrary -name ".parentlock" -print

It should print out a list of .parentlock files that are keeping the profiles from being opened. If that list looks okay – go ahead and combine the find command with rm below:

find /pathtouserlibrary -name ".parentlock" -print -exec rm '{}' \;

In both cases replace /pathtouserlibrary with the path to the User's Library – usually ~/Library

Star Wars on your terminal

This is one of the funniest things I've found on the web in a while…  Classic…  Click on the link below or open a terminal window and type:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl 

Source: MacWorld

My favorite mysql app: YourSQL

Check out this open source GUI app to access and modify mysql databases:
http://yoursql.ludit.it/

If you are trying to manage a mysql database on Mac OS X Server – read this first:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302936

Setting up AFP access on Linux

Here is how I set it up on Fedora Core 5:

1. yum install netatalk
2. vi /etc/atalk/afpd.conf
   Comment out last line and add this one:
   - -noddp -uamlist uams_dhx.so
3. vi /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default
   Add shares to the end of the file ie:
   /home home
4. Change this:
   ATALKD_RUN=yes
   PAPD_RUN=yes
   to:
   ATALKD_RUN=no
   PAPD_RUN=no
   and
   Comment out this line:
   ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}|cut -d. -f1`
5. chkconfig atalk on
6. service atalk start

Then add users your users:
useradd username -g groupname
passwd username