I have done all installations on my home network but I cannot do this.I want to push an os to any machines and use task sequence to assign drivers and install different applications.How can i do that?
You're essentially asking "How do I SCCM?", so I'm afraid all I can suggest is start reading here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg682108.aspx
If you have any more specific questions about problems with the process later then you're welcome to post them.
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I am new to OS X and have to create an application having 2 parts - launch daemon and launch agent. The daemon is going to do stuff such as command execution, logging, etc and has to somehow communicate these results to launch agent (which would transfer them to a login item displaying a GUI, although that is a future step).
My question:
How do I achieve this communication?. From what I have been able to gather so far after reading Apple docs is that my best bet is using CFSockets. Is there any alternate(simpler) way ? Does anybody have any sample tutorial/example/code that shows how to use CFSockets (I could not find any) ?.
PS: My question might be a duplicate of this one, but that question is not yet answered and so I thought of posting this.
I was able to set up communication between my daemon and agent using CFSockets and it wasn't as bad as I had thought before. I followed the step-by-step instructions at :
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/NetworkingTopics/Articles/UsingSocketsandSocketStreams.html (Writing a TCP-Based Server).
You could probably also try using plain BSD sockets. There is a simple example at : http://www.minek.com/files/unix_examples/poll.html (although I have not tried this out).
Good luck.
Here is what I want to do:
I want to run Mathematica on another Mac from my Mac (both Snow Leopards). I want to do this because the remote Mac has multiple cores/processors while my local Mac is rather shabby. I would like to have the front end still locally (i.e. the graphical interface).
What I've learned:
I used to do this type of thing from multiple Linux machines and was expecting to have similar success for Mac-to-Mac operation. However no such luck.
The problem seems to be a display issue (front end).
Mac front end runs in Aqua while X11 is what is really needed (this is why there is no problem on Unix). While Macs have X11, for some reason Mathematica can't use it.
So how do I get around this issue?
Possible solutions that I have had to rule out are: 1. screen sharing. Not practical since someone else will be using the remote Mac on another account. Screen sharing only uses the active screen. 2. Installing Unix on the remote computer. Not possible in my situation.
Thanks.
You should be able to set up a remote kernel on the other Mac. This is done through the Evaluation > Kernel Configurations menu item. The you can set the remote kernel for a given notebook using Evaluation > Notebook's Kernel or globally via Evaluation > Default Kernel.
I haven't done this in a while, and it's sometimes useful to test things from a terminal with something like
ssh <user>#<remote.machine.com> </path/to/remote/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel>
Why not use the command line kernel? I have a script math which does:
#!/bin/bash
rlwrap /Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel
I built rlwrap from source, but basically that tool gives you readline behaviors. You can just do
ssh remote-machine /Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel
The only solution, I believe, is for you to upgrade to OS X Lion. It allows simultaneous screen sharing sessions where each user can control the screen for their own account:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#screensharing
I was wondering if it is possible to gather information about a running virtualized system (e.g. enumerating processes, finding window captions, window positions on a windows system).
My naive approach was using ReadProcessMemory() on vmware-vmx.exe and searching for data structures like _tagWND. This didn't work out as expected. :/
I don't want to "touch" the guest system if I don't have to.
So, how could I achieve this?
There are APIs to talk to the VMware Tools inside the guest. See the VMware VIX API here.
In the list of common tasks from the documentation, there are the following guest operations that would probably do what you're after:
VixVM_ListProcessesInGuest()
VixVM_RunProgramInGuest()
VixVM_RunScriptInGuest()
I'd like to create a virtual monitor driver for OS X. What I mean by virtual is a monitor driver that does not drive an attached monitor, yet fools OS X into thinking there is such a monitor attached.
The purpose? It can tunnel display data to some other device over some other protocol, say VNC.
I believe this has been done before in one form or another (perhaps those apps that turn your iPad into a secondary display).
Any coding/kernel hackery pointers on this would be appreciated!
After days and days of attempts, I found http://code.google.com/p/ioproxyvideofamily/ which works like a charm. Tried EWProxyFramebuffer, tried iDisplay, but this is the first one that actually works!
- Update -
Sounds like ioproxyvideofamily hasn't been kept up to date with new OS's. I haven't tried it (or any alternatives) since 10.7. If you find a better alternative, create a new answer to this question.
https://github.com/mkernel/EWProxyFramebuffer can do what you want. You have to compile it with xcode yourself and to install EWProxyFrameBuffer.kext to /System/Library/Extensions and EWProxyFrameBufferConnection.framework to /System/Library/Frameworks. Make sure all rights of the installed files are 755 and owner/group is root/wheel. Using EWProxyFrameBuffer.app, you can then de-/activate the monitor.
I try to get http://code.google.com/p/ioproxyvideofamily/ working. Is it Lion or is it me? Because it doesn't show in System Information/Software/Extensions. Also the provided applications doesn't work.
I'm about to check out the source to see if there is something fishy in there.
I need a windows installer that can install my program only X number of times. Say 10 or 20 or a defined number I set. Then the installer ceases to operate or can give a message to contact my company.
Ed
There are several solutions.
One solution that is quite common is to require online authentication for the program for each new install.
Solutions that may be viable in some situation:
Self modifying executable. Just let the installer modify itself and reduce some counter. But it is easily defeatable by making multiple copies of the executable.
If you want to limit the installer only on one computer add some registry key and check that. Also easily defeatable
In my opinion the best way to doing this is using a hardware block/dongle. They're awful for the user, but they work in limiting access. The other advantage to these blocks, is that you can install the software on numerous pcs, but the software can only run on the pcs with plugged in usb keys.
Another solution to have some form of an encrypted file/db, that whenever an installation is flagged as complete, it adds a value. When the number of values reaches X, then setup won't work anymore
EDIT
the real issue is that most applications are installed using a dvd/cd, in order to limit the number of installations, you need to be able to write back to the dvd. I don't think this is feasible in most cases.