Articles in category macOS

In OS X Lion and now also OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, there is a nifty new Terminal command called tmutil to get Time Machine to continue adding to the backup history of the previously used disk

The built-in Cisco VPN client introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has the habit of disconnecting itself when re-keying should be performed but fails after about 48 minutes up to one hour. This timeout issue has been fixed in Mac OS X 10.6.4

Mac OS X Lion lists recent items with each application in the Dock (accessible via right-click) and in the Application View of Mission Control. To remove those and disable future additions, the trusty defaults write approach may help with most — but not all — applications

Snow Leopard brought built-in support for Cisco VPN over TCP (but not over UDP). However, as of 10.6.6, there is still one issue: While the password can be saved in the keychain, the daemon configd is not granted access, causing the user to be bothered to enter the password every time upon initiating a connection