Commandline to enable Apple Remote Desktop.

YourSudoEnabledAccount$ sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users YourRemoteAccount -privs -all -restart -agent

Location of Linux Java browser plugin...

Just needed to test a little web java applet from a server, but firefox wasn't recognizing the plugin, even though I had symbolic links to it from about 4 different places...

Found the answer but of course I missed it the first time in that post, because I thought the major difference was the filename to the plugin. Well "duh" I thought, it's basically the only .so file there...no, look again, it's a whole different path.

Instead of [JRE]/plugin/i386... it's [JRE]/lib/i386/...

/me smacks head on desk.

Lightweight (In requirements) heavyweight (in features) audio player for OS X - Vox.

http://www.voxapp.uni.cc/

From their website:

"Vox is a little and simple music player for Mac OS X with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to AAC+, Apple Lossless, WAV and other formats with enabled effects."

Error installing PowerShell2/WinRM, Event ID 4373 "Access Denied"

Had to use the ever-useful process-monitor in order to find out what the issue was. In this case a registry entry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost


Gave admins write access, and fixed!


P.S. And what was the super-important item that had to be written?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost\WINRM]
"CoInitializeSecurityParam"=dword:00000001
"AuthenticationCapabilities"=dword:00003020



Huh.


UPDATE: Discovered (Thanks to this post) that the issue was caused by the GPO I had created months ago as per the MS-specified confiker mitigation KB. (To be fair the article does warn about inability to install updates...but it was easy to miss.)