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FSA script from Steve Allen and Parallels Desktop

Are you using the fsa (find ssh agent) script from Steve Allen on your Mac ?Be careful with Parallels Desktop: apply this little patch to avoid annoying trouble when opening a Terminal session� The FSA script written by Steve Allen (available here) is great to automate ssh-agent handling.

But it scans /tmp for ssh sockets without any depth limit. It's fine for most situation but the trouble with Parallels Desktop is that sometimes it mounts some virtual machine's volume in /tmp.

The immediate consequence is that execution of the fsa script embedded in a .bashrc or any other Terminal session's startup script will take "forever" to complete...

The simple fix is to change:

agentsocks=`find /tmp/ -user $LOGNAME -type s -name "*agent*" -print 2>/dev/null`

agentsocks=`find /tmp/ -maxdepth 2 -user $LOGNAME -type s -name "*agent*" -print 2>/dev/null`

Why even IT pros are demanding Macs

Source: ComputerWorld; Date: March 26, 2009; Country: US Article

Macs in business: Chagrin and bear it

Source: The NewZealand Herald; Date: March 26,2009 ; Country: New-Zealand Article

How to solve 'Undefined symbol "_open$UNIX2003"' and similar

How to solve these error messages at link time:

Undefined symbols:>>   "_fcntl$UNIX2003", referenced from:>>       ___gcov_open in SOME_LIB.a(_XXX.o)>>   "_close$UNIX2003", referenced from:>>       ___gcov_open in SOME_LIB.a(_XXX.o)>>   "_open$UNIX2003", referenced from:>>       ___gcov_open in SOME_LIB.a(_XXX.o)

You got these messages because the "SOME_LIB.a" library was linked against 10.5 SDK, but you are now using it in a project for which you now require 10.4 (or less) SDK.

Once you know why you got the errors, the solution is pretty obvious:
either you recompile the SOME_LIB.a with the required SDK - if you have the sources and if they are compatible with the targeted SDK,
either you have to raise the minimum compatibility level of the project linking to SOME_LIB.a to 10.5 SDK.

If none of these are possible, you are probably in big trouble�

Axel-Springer-Verlag switches to Mac

Date: July 4th, 2008; Source: Official news; Country: Germany

UK hotel chain adds iMacs�

� to the list of in-room amenities Source: macenstein.com; Date: February 22nd, 2008 ; Country: UK

Apple in the Enterprise, Part 1: Apple a Day at Hartford Hospital

Source: TechnewsWorld ; Date: Dec, 17 2007; Country: USA

Companies Warm To the Idea of Office Macs

Source: Yahoo Finance; Date: September 17, 2007; Country: USA

Apple in top-10 server brands in 1Q07

digitimes; 4 June 2007

Apple continues to ignore the enterprise ?

Apple continues to mostly ignore the enterprise, observers say; Source: ComputerWorld; May 31, 2007