Safari – Open jnlp Files Not Download Them
KB ID 0001148 Problem Next to the rise of Nazism, war, hunger, and pestilence Java is the worst hing to happen to humankind! But because people keep using it for management consoles and things we are stuck with it. I’m particularly a big fan of the way they (Oracle) upgrade it because it’s got some huge security flaw in it, then all my remote iLO, DRAC and Cisco ASDM sessions don’t work anymore. It’s even...
VMware Fusion – Change IP Addresses
KB ID 0001147 Problem I use Fusion a lot, and it does what I want and never gives me any problems. I was working for a client this week and had to VPN onto their network (172.16.0.0/16 but all the servers were on 172.16.48.x). When connected I could not RDP to any of their servers? I asked a colleague to try on his laptop and it worked fine? I asked another colleague who also uses a mac, his worked as well. Solution I wondered if I...
Apple Mac OSX – Send a ‘Function Key’ Keystroke
KB ID 0001131 Problem I was remotely connected to one of My Dell servers via a DRAC. I needed to enter the ‘boot sequence’ at startup and that meant pressing F11 at the server boot seen. However F11 on the mac shows the desktop. Solution To Send a ‘function keystroke’ you need to press Fn+cmd+{function key} Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA
MAC OSX – Setting File Associations
KB ID 0001046 Problem This started out as an article on simply ‘how to set file associations’ but when I tried to associate .jpg files with Photoshop it refused to work, (they stayed associated with the MAC Preview application). Solution 1. Right click a file of the type you want to associate, (or cmd click if you don’t have right click enabled). 2. With the right click menu still on the screen press and hold the...
MAC OSX Outlook – Open Multiple POP Email Accounts in Their Own Folders
KB ID 0001044 Problem I’ve been slowly migrating from a Windows Laptop to a MacBook Pro. And Office 15 for Mac is great, I had my work Exchange Email up in no time, then I configured my POP email accounts. The problem is Outlook puts all POP mail in one folder called ‘on my computer’. I have a quite a few POP email accounts, and I like to keep them all separate. Solution I will assume you already have your POP email...
MAC OSX – Managing ESXi Hosts
KB ID 0001054 Problem I have made the transition to a MAC laptop pretty easily, but theres one thing thats still a pain, VMware ESXi servers! I know these days vCenter has a nice shiny web management portal, but ESXi does not. When I’m working on the test bench I usually connect using the VI client from a virtual machine running inside VMware fusion. Which works, but the performance is not brilliant, things wont move where I...