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How to use an external USB Apple SuperDrive on a Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion
I recently removed my superdrive from my Macbook Pro to add a secondary hard drive. In this case a 750 Seagate Momentus XT. I then ordered an external USB Apple SuperDrive; not knowing it didn’t work on my MacBook Pro right out of the box. To make it work I had to do the following: […]
Tags: Apple, MountainLion, OSX
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Enabling an IO Gear GUC232A USB to Serial Dongle in OSX Mountain Lion
I work in networking and have the need to connect to console ports on a switch using my MacBook Pro with no serial port. I purchased the IO Gear GUC232A which works great and very well built and uses the prolific driver which has been found to be very well supported also another great more […]
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Generate SSL CSR within OSX
Needed a CSR for a new certificate today, what the heck? OSX has openSSL built in! openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout mykey.pem -out myreq.pem
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