Mac

To reset password of a User using Terminal in Mac: dscl .passwd /Users/username        where, username is the name of the account whose password you wish to change.  By any chance, if this command doesn’t work directly, then change to root and execute the command.

Changing Hostname of Mac permanently: Open a terminal. Type the following command to change the primary hostname of your Mac:This is your fully qualified hostname, for example myMac.domain.comsudo scutil –set HostName <new host name> Type the following command to change the Bonjour hostname of your Mac:This is the name usable on the local network, for example myMac.local.sudo… read more »

General Information To use DeployStudio, a source mac is required which will have all the softwares and settings which need to be copied to other macs. All the other macs will be copies(clones) of this source mac. There are 4 things which are required for this procedure of cloning. Server – This server acts as… read more »

Steps to update mac computers remotely. Open Apple Remote Desktop Select all the computers (mathe1 – mathe33, mathe83 – mathe94) Select Send Unix command Select radio button send command as and enter “root” in this option Write “softwareupdate -i -a” in the unix command window and press send. Computers will get updated and log will… read more »

Xppaut is available here, http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/xpp/xpp.html You may have to download the version for mac from here, http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/bardware/binary/latest/ The version I chose was xpp611fosx.dmg After getting this file, double click on it, and copy both the xpp.app and the xppaut file under /Applications double click on the xpp.app file, will open a window. To test if it… read more »

On Mac, the default Python that comes with Mac, will not work. So, we need to download another version of Python and install it. At the time of writing this, 2.7.3 can be downloaded from, http://www.python.org/download/ Get numpy and scipy as, git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git numpy git clone git://github.com/scipy/scipy.git scipy http://www.scipy.org/Download The below link is a good… read more »

SSH to the clientCommand : ssh beck@mathe##.la.asu.edu (## denotes a 2 digit number) Download the BioPerl package from www.bioperl.org Command : curl -L -O http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz Unzip the downloaded package Command : tar xvfz BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz Switch to the BioPerl directory Command : cd BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz Build the Package Command : perl Build.PL Follow Instructions : The install procedure is… read more »

Source File: http://scitools.googlecode.com/files/scitools-0.8.tar.gz Procedure 1. SSH to client’s admin (beck) account a. ssh beck@client.la.asu.edu (e.g. ssh beck@mathe1.la.asu.edu) b. Enter password for beck account 2. If the install is going to take place on the student account, then we need to assign admin privileges temporarily a. sudo dscl . –append /Groups/admin GroupMembership $username$ (e.g. sudo dscl …. read more »

The list below contains a complete list of softwares that we install in a fresh Mac OS X. Though some of the softwares may be optional, depending on the requirements.  Chrome, Firefox, Opera Microsoft Office Adoble Reader DC Flash plugin for Safari Skype Filezilla XQuartz Matlab Mathematica Maple Latex R, R-Studio SPSS (MCMSC) dropbox google… read more »