How To: Ping in Mac OS X Terminal

How To: Ping in Mac OS X Terminal

Ping is a quick test of network connectivity between one host and another. Use ping to troubleshoot basic network connectivity issues. Ping allows you to send a network packet to another device in an attempt to solicit a response to confirm if a device is online or not. Use Terminal in Mac OS X to ping...

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Fix: Your IT Administrator is now Helping You Protect work or school data in this app - iOS

Fix: Your IT Administrator is now Helping You Protect work or school data in this app - iOS

On your iOS device, you may receive a prompt about your company administrator being able to protect your device. Your device is now being managed by a device profile and your company will be able to push policies to it to manage it, including remotely wipe your device.





  Your IT administrator is now...

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Fix: Unable to Check for Update – iPhone

Fix: Unable to Check for Update – iPhone

While searching for an iOS update on your iPhone (Settings -> General -> Software Update), you may receive the following message from Apple about not being able to find an update.





  Unable to Check for Update An error occurred while checking for a software update.   The error is related to the iOS...

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How To: Mac Change SUDO Timeout

How To: Mac Change SUDO Timeout

If you use Terminal and are often using sudo commands, you can increase the sudo password timeout so you aren’t prompted so often to re-enter your password for certain sudo commands. We will need to edit the sudoers file in /etc/. Follow the below steps.   1. Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)  2. Type...

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How To: Apple Remote Desktop Quit Application

How To: Apple Remote Desktop Quit Application

If you need to remotely quit an application on a Mac OS X machine that uses Apple Remote Desktop, use a UNIX template command that is build into Apple Remote Desktop by default to quit any application instantly.   Note: In order to send UNIX commands through Apple Remote Desktop, your remote Mac host must have...

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