os x

• To only turn off indexing on a volume:
  
  sudo mdutil -i off /Volume/drivename/
• To Turn off indexing and remove indices on a volume:
  
  sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/drivename/
• To only turn on indexing on a volume:
  
  sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/drivename/
• To turn on indexing and rebuild indices on a volume:
  
  sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/drivename/

Apple tech note
Bombich.com article
Scripting Login Tasks in OS X

Create a hook:

See what the login hook is set to:

• Adobe Acrobat Crashes on OS X With Network Account - an alternative way of achieving this solution, since we have OS X Server, was to use MCX to automatically redirect the folders for network users:
  
  Action - deleteAndCreateSymblink
Destination Folder Path - /Users/Shared/9.0_x86/
Folder Path: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0_x86

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031017061722471

• arch - "archived flag"
• opaque - "opaque flag"
• nodump - "nodump flag"
• sappnd - "system append-only flag"
• schg - "system immutable flag"
• uappnd - "user append-only flag"
• uchg - "user immutable flag"

Lock a file from being moved, renamed or deleted:

Font Management in OS X - lots of tips on managing fonts in various versions of OS X, and what to do about Apple's versions of Helvetica, etc.

How to Clear the Font Cache

Undoing Font Book - how to reset Font Book's cache.

Recommended Libraries

• libtiff
  
  wget http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar zxf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
• libjpeg
  
  wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
tar zxf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
cd jpeg-7
./configure
make
sudo make install

ImageMagick installation
To get the latest version of ImageMagick:



Paparazzi!
Paparazzi! is an OS X application for capturing screenshots of web pages. It is AppleScriptable to automate the capture of a page:

webkit2png

• MacOSX::File - A collection of Perl modules to manipulate files on MacOS X (set file/creator codes, copy files while preserving the resource fork,etc.)
  Installing on Panther resulted in a "gcc2" error when trying to install from CPAN. Manually still required a tweak even though the latest version has a patch for Panther:
  
curl -O http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/MacOSX-File-0.71.tar.gz
tar zxvf MacOSX-File-0.71.tar.gz
cd MacOSX-File-0.71
perl Makefile.PL
make CC=gcc3
make test


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