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Enabling tftpd on MacOS X (Snow) Leopard
Jul 8th
Enabling the tftp daemon in MacOS X Snow Leopard (or Leopard) is an easy task with little documentation. This is a quick reference. The manual page for tftpd in MacOS X Snow Leopard (or Leopard) recommends that tftpd is launched via launchd, so we will do it that way. First, we enter launchd% console using sudo:
sudo launchctl
After that, we enable tftpd in launchd% console:
load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist
That’s it. Now you can put your tftp files into /private/tftpboot folder and start using tftpd.
When you are finished using the daemon, you can unload it by entering launchd% console and issuing the following command:
unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist
If you use tftpd a lot, you can enable it at boot time by entering the following in launchd% console:
load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist
And to disable it from starting up at boot time:
unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist
Back to Mac!
Feb 23rd
I have returned back to using a Mac as my primary computer after a very long time. I am very happy to get this elegant look back on my desktop. Being a systems and network administrator, I cannot get rid of Windows completely, but I will not see its ugly face a lot, from now on.
I was using a 1.33 GHz 17″ PowerBook as my personal computer at home and being nearly 3 years old, it was getting slower and slower.
This is a 2.16 GHz 20″ iMac C2D. My old work computer was a 4 or 5 years old HP Desktop with 1.8 GHz. What a performance boost! This thing is very fast. iTunes playing and fetching artwork on the background, test broadcasting a 320×240 H.264 live TV broadcast to a QuickTime Streaming Server, trial version of Parallels (build 3170) running Outlook in coherence mode for corporate email, and there is barely a slowdown on the computer.
I have always been an Apple fan. Starting with a Macintosh Plus, I loved using Macs. Now this iMac has changed my vision entirely. I will probably never buy a computer from another vendor from now on.
