OS-X – change username/home directory – El Capitan

As you may know when you change your username in OS-X you must change the home directory as well to match the new username (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548). Now in El Capitan when you change the home directory […]

El Capitan, Xcode 7.2, MacPorts

In case you are wondering why some ports fail to build after upgrading to El Capitan or upgrading Xcode to version 7.2 here is the detailed answer: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xcode7.2 In my case issuing a simple chmod and chown […]

Bandwidth limiting on OS-X [Yosemite, El Capitan or *BSD]

Since Yosemite OS-X is not using ipfw but pf. So if you’re using those ipfw commands to limit your bandwidth, well… they won’t work. You’ll have to learn and implement some pf rules. The usage of […]