The Macintosh or Mac is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.
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ssh-keygen does not create RSA private key
I'm trying to create a private key and having an issue.
When I use ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com", I get a private key in the following format.
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE…

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How to restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
I just installed Nginx on Mac OS X (thanks http://www.kevinworthington.com/nginx-mac-os-snow-leopard-2-minutes/), but how do I restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
Thanks!

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What are useful Command-line Commands on Mac OS X?
Per the Windows and Linux threads, what commands do you find most useful in Mac OS X Server (or Client)?

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Mac OS X multi-user thin client server (terminal server)?
Is there any solution out there to turn a Mac into a true multi-user thin client server?
I'd like to set up a few cheap PCs with access to a couple accounts using something like VNC, but it isn't economical to buy a new server for each user or a new…

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Backup strategy for developer-focused Apple environments?
It's interesting to see the technological split between structured corporate environments and more developer-driven/startup environments. Some of the Microsoft technologies I take for granted (VSS, Folder Redirection, etc.) simply are not available…

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Best way to get the MAC of eth0?
Is there a more efficient way to retrieve the MAC address of a NIC in Linux?
This works:
ip link show dev eth0 | awk ' /link\/ether/ { print $2 }'
but can it be found via something like:
cat /sys/net/something

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VNC viewer not connecting to Mac from Windows
I have a VNC server running on a Mac.
When I try to use a VNC viewer, it says "no matching security types".
Is there any other software which can connect to a Mac like RDP?
If iI use screen sharing from another Mac, then it works but not from…
John
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How do I change the Software Update server address on a client Mac (to use my own server)?
Now that I have started the Software Update service on my Leopard Server, how do I change my client Macs to check for updates on it?

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Apache: Isn't chmod 755 enough to set up symlink or alias on Apache httpd on Mac OS 10.5?
On my Mac OS 10.5 machine, I would like to set up a subfolder of ~/Documents like ~/Documents/foo/html to be http://localhost/foo.
The first thing I thought of doing is using Alias as follows:
Alias /foo /Users/someone/Documents/foo/html

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how to install fuzzystrmatch.sql pg_trgm.sql on postgresql on mac os x
I have installed postgresql according to this, but I also need fuzzy string match functions, but I have no idea how to install these.

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rsync --iconv option on Mac not working (sync from remote Linux server to local Mac)
I want to use rsync to backup data from a remote Linux server to my local Mac. And I want to initialise this operation on my local Mac. All works fine except that there is a special character problem: every time I re-run the rsync operation (after…

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How to make a Macintosh register a Hostname to the DHCP Server?
I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard in our company's internal network, which is basically a Windows domain network. Our TO department complains about my MacBook not specifying a name to the DHCP server. Accordingly, the MacBook isn't resolvable by…

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Is there a VNC server for mac with decent international keyboard support?
I'm having trouble finding a VNC server for Mac OS X that allows me to connect from a Windows box with German keyboard layout. I've tried the built-in desktop sharing and several versions of Vine but all of them had problems with several keys.
Does…
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how can i modify max memory-limit in php.ini in docker container
within the docker container on a MAC, I am getting a php memory error :
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 404750336 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 266342400 bytes
how can i find where the php.ini file is or how can i modify this parameter in…

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Unable to bind OSX 10.9 to Active Directory 2008
I am struggling to bind OSX 10.9 to a 2008 r2 Active Directory. I can join the domain fine when I boot into Windows from the same machine. From OSX I can find the domain controller successfully and have verified consistency of Active Directory…

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