Tag: mac

  • watching dmesg on mac

    Simple script to watch dmesg for changes, something like “dmesg –follow” or “dmesg -w” on systems with a real dmesg command. : # # watch dmesg output on the mac for new results… useful since the mac # doesn’t support the –follow/-w/etc. opts (at least for now!) # tries to update every second # #…

  • if you’re feeling (digitally) suicidal….

    … here’s how to decrease the security of your mac…. It was one of those situations that are hard to explain, but I wanted to execute an X program on a remote system and have it show up on my Mac’s screen WITHOUT using ssh. This was on Snow Leopard with the XQuartz X server,…

  • OMG, finally!

    I’ve waited for a over a decade, but finally – per process packet tracing on the mac (mountain lion.) For example, finding out the traffic that a python script sends via UDP and the return (both python programs on the same machine); the first sends “foo”, the server sends what it got plus “bar”: #…