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Category: Apple OSX

  • Mac – Fix for – ls: illegal option – usage: ls

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    a@macbook:~/$ ls ls: illegal option — – usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file …] Fix: Check the following files for “ls –color” alias ls=’ls -G’ ~/.bashrc, .~/bash_aliases ~/.profile a@macbook:~$ grep -Es “ls\s+–color” ~/.bash* ~/.profile /Users/a/.bash_aliases:#alias ls=’ls –color=auto’ /Users/a/.bashrc: #alias ls=’ls –color=auto’ References 1. https://superuser.com/questions/183876/how-do-i-get-ls-color-auto-to-work-on-mac-os-x 2. http://ninjasingh.blogspot.de/2012/09/ls-illegal-option.html

  • Mac OSX – Kodak Printer issues

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    After updating OSX, printong to a Kodak printer stopped working. To fix this, just “terminal” in the spotlight search In the terminal, paste the following commands 🙂 sudo sh -c ‘echo “Sandboxing Relaxed” >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf’ sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd References 1. http://support.en.kodak.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/49247/~/why-cant-i-print-after-i-upgrade-to-mac-os-10.10-(yosemite)%3F/selected/true

  • Virtualbox – Share Ubuntu and Mac OS Folders to a Ubuntu Guest Server

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    Virtualbox – Sharing Folders with the correct permissions # Add current user to vboxsf group in Ubuntu guest OS sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $USER #You can access the share by making the user, or group id of 1000, a member of group vboxsf. #This is done by changing the vboxsf line in the /etc/group file.…