How To: Traceroute in Mac OS X Terminal

How To: Traceroute in Mac OS X Terminal

Traceroute allows you to discover a network path from one host to another. Traceroute is extremely helpful examining network hops (or network devices traversed over) and information including IP Address, DNS servers, and average time taken over each hop. A popular use of traceroute is to identify network bottlenecks (poor speed performance) happening in network equipment...

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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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