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Burkhard Schmidt
Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Physik fester Stoffe
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Official Apple Support
Apple on Stackexchange
Macenterprise Mailing List Archive
Mathematica on Stackexchange
Some scientific notes
My particulate matter sensor
My air temperature/humidity sensor
About me
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Welcome
Introduction
Computational resources
Account on the cluster computer
Additional software
Mathematica network licenses
MATLAB license provisioning for MacBooks
The first Monday of Sep 1618
System configuration
Mac mini und LG 49WL95C-W
Get info from our directory service
Disable macOS Catalina upgrade notice
Reenable Macintosh startup chime
Giving admin rights to network users
How to read Apple's serial numbers
Customizing the login screen
File create fails in /System/Library/Caches
Resetting the LaunchServices database
Clear the icon caches
Create a bootable installation media
Edit the authorization database
Scrolling problems with the Apple mouse
Listing the configured directory services
Using an external USB Bluetooth interface
Forcing a 5GHz WiFi connection
Programming
Authorize users to run a program from within Xcode
Authorize users to debug with Xcode
BLAS and LAPACK
C/C++ List of predefined macros
Eclipse and network volumes
Installing Xcode 3.2.6 on Mac OS X 10.7
Migrating from Subversion to Git
Multiple remotes with Git
Predefined C preprocessor variables
Processor-dependent optimizations
List all binaries
Creating universal binaries
Shared libraries
Linking C and Fortran programs
Processes and commands
Running unsigned command-line binaries
Single sudo timestamp for all sessions
Tetris for Terminal users
CPU type and number of processors
Do not wake up
Do not kill my processes
Command not found
How to kill a process
Insufficient memory
Command-line shortcuts
Console login
Manual pages locations
Working with files
Manage Time Machine backups
Wiederherstellung aus einem Time Machine Backup
Sharing large files
Managing access control lists and extended file attributes
Bring back Save As
Unattended backup using rsync
Disable Spotlight indexing
Mounting the network home folder
Removing the burn folder
Uncompress a bunch of files
Disk quota
File sizes
Backup and synchronizing two folders
Comparing a bunch of files
Show hidden files and folders
VPN, Secure Shell and encryted connections
VPN access
What is Secure Shell (SSH) and why do I need it?
Changing the default SSH username
Public-key authentication
Disconnected SSH session
SSH as a poor man's VPN
SSH port forwarding
Mounting a remote folder over SSH
Using OpenSSH keys with a Tectia SSH server
Using Subversion with SSH
SSH as a SOCKS proxy
Remote X11 access
LaTeX, PostScript, and PDF
Viewing PostScript files
QuickLook for PostScript files
Tabs in Preview.app
Collaborative editing with ShareLaTeX
Erzeugung von LaTeX-Zeichensätzen
Combining several PDFs into one
Preserving fonts and BoundingBox
How to merge PDF files the easy way
Reduce PDF file size
More than one dot in a graphics filename
(E)PS to PDF mass conversion
Extracting graphics from PDF
LaTeX, graphics, and the BoundingBox
Chapter-wise bibliography
Printing
HP printer drivers on macOS 12 Monterey
Using the Canon printers
Managing printers
Auto quit printer application
Authorize users to manage printers
Printing at 100 %
Garbled PDF printout
Make DIN/ISO A4 the default papersize
Printing EPS files
Editing text and graphics
Flipping columns in data files
Getting rid of Control-M
Readjusting line breaks
No Emacs backups
Gnuplot and interactive graphics
Editing (E)PS files
Aqua
Avoid reopening windows when loggin in
Changing the default Desktop picture
Disable automatic window animations
Desktop Widgets
The X Window System
X Window applications on Macintosh
Mathematica libGL error
Mathematica font errors
Mathematica Linux font errors
Macintosh as X terminal
Passwords
Changing passwords
Good passwords
FileVault and Active Directory
E-Mail and data transfer
Configuring Mail
Configuring Exchange
Configuring Address Book
How to send a SMS text from the command line
How to transmit confidential documents
Inline attachments in Mail
Prefer plain text in displaying e-mail
Searching the Exchange Global Address List
What is a winmail.dat attachment?
Speed up Mail.app
Signing and encrypting messages
Attachments and downloads
Malicious applications
Identify disguised applications
Download validation
Viruses and other malware
Viruses and trojans
The market share argument
The price argument
Network and communication
Portscans ohne Netzwerk-Dienstprogramm
Web-Videokonferenzen
Configuring eduroam in three steps
Connecting to our VCS using a Mac or Windows PC
Displaying service certificates
How to use Skype on our VCS's
How to renew a DHCP lease
How to use the MPG CA LDAP server
How to flush the DNS cache
Safari and Firefox
No Zotero Connector
Server admin
Automatically mount NFS volumes
Manage AFP/SMB shares
Bind to OD from the command line
Configuring Mac OS X Server 10.5 Software Update for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7
Wide-area Bonjour aka DNS-SD
Reconfigure the local KDC
Setting up an SVN server
Reset print services
iOS
How to display the cellular signal strength in dB mW
How to use your iPhone as a document scanner
The first Monday of Sep 1618
How can I find out which date the first Monday of September 1618 was?
Type
cal 9 1618
at the prompt. This will return a calendar for September 1618.