Xcode ‘Could not find Developer Disk Image’ issue

On October 22, 2016, in iOS, Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

If you are running Xcode 7.3.1 (the previous version of Xcode) and you try to install an app to your iPhone running iOS 10 (latest version of iOS), you will most probably run into this issue. It’s not a very helpful message at all. Doesn’t really say what’s actually wrong here. It appears that the problem […]

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Installing NetExtender on OS X El Capitan

On October 31, 2015, in Mac, Miscellaneous, by Anuj Gakhar

If you are trying to install Dell SonicWALL NetExtender (it’s a VPN client) on OSX El Capitan, you might run into a situation where it won’t connect to the VPN server and you might see this in the logs. [xml] 10/31/2015 13:09:33.292 [general notice] SSL Connection is ready 10/31/2015 13:09:34.301 [general info] Using new PPP […]

 

Getting Railo working under Mountain Lion 10.8

On July 26, 2012, in ColdFusion, Mac, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

I have upgraded to Mountain OSX Lion 10.8 since it’s release yesterday and although the installation went pretty smooth, I am noticing some issues with my Apache setup. I use Railo with Tomcat as the servlet engine and Apache as the webserver. If you have a similar setup, here are the minor things you would […]

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A better Shell with oh-my-zsh

On January 8, 2012, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

In the last few months, I have found myself using the Terminal on my MacOS more and more. I just find it more satisfying to be in more control of what I am doing and it’s definitely faster too (if you know your commands well). And it was this inclination that led me to find […]

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Using SSH Host shortnames to connect to Amazon EC2 servers

On December 9, 2011, in AWS, Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I work with quite a few different Amazon EC2 instances on a daily basis and I use SSH command line interface to connect to these servers and as you can imagine, a normal command for that would look something like this :- [xml] ssh -i ~/.ec2/server.pem username@ec2-identifier.compute-1.amazonaws.com [/xml] Now, imagine typing that in for 5 […]

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Using MacOSX Lion command line mail with Gmail as SMTP

On December 9, 2011, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I have been trying to get my command line mail working on my MacOS (Lion) today and I noticed that the normal postfix emails get treated as SPAM by Google and because I was sending emails to myself on my gmail account, that was an issue for me. So, I thought of using gmail as […]

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Switching Kernel Boot Mode of a MacBook Pro

On March 14, 2011, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I bought myself the latest and greatest 17′ MacBook Pro this week and the very first problem that I hit after installing some of the Applications from my old Macbook was that one of the apps was not working. The app was “Cisco VPN Client” . The error I was getting was this :- [xml] […]

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IIS 7.5 Virtual Directory Error : 401 UnAuthorized

On December 23, 2010, in Web Development, Browsers, Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I almost went crazy with this one. The Scenario :- I installed IIS 7.5 on a fresh Windows 2008 box. Got a website up and running on it. Then added a Virtual Directory for all the site’s assets and thought I am done. But no! None of the assets were visible in browser. I tried […]

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Quickly Empty Trash on MacOS

On July 20, 2010, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

So, I often end up in situations where there is just too much data in my Trash and emptying Trash on a Mac can take ages. The annoying bit is – while Trash is being emptied – you can not delete anything else meanwhile. I ran into a situation today where I needed 40GB space […]

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CF/Flex Connectivity in Flex Builder : Invalid root. The WEB-INF/flex folder must contain either flex-config.xml or services-config.xml.

On June 8, 2010, in ColdFusion, Flex Builder, Flex, Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I was setting up a new Project in Flex Builder with Application Server Type as ‘ColdFusion’. I had the default values in the Flex Builder wizard. But the Wizard wont let me go past the second screen. I kept getting this error :- Invalid root. The WEB-INF/flex folder must contain either flex-config.xml or services-config.xml. And […]

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