Tech Notes and Problem Solutions
Update: It appears that Xerox is now distributing a 10.6 “Snow Leopard” driver package on their website.
According to the Xerox website the Phaser 6120 is not supported in Snow Leopard. However if one downloads the custom PPD file from the OpenPrinting database the printer works perfectly.
Full instructions follow:
Say you wanted to create an empty branch of an existing git repository. That is a new branch with no history, say to track your project docs.
Just a quick way to test and see if your DNS servers are vulnerable to the latest DNS Cache Poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447).
From: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/porttest
$ dig @4.2.2.3 +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT
Replacing 4.2.2.3 with the IP address of your DNS server(s).
After a recent security update I noticed that my bookmarks were no longer synchronizing over .Mac between any of my systems. To fix the issue I had to unregister and reregister Safari’s sync client. Open a terminal and run: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/SafariSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariSyncClient –unregistersyncclient com.apple.Safari This will return NO, then run /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/SafariSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariSyncClient –register which should return [...]
