defaults read

Show defined default settings using arguments

defaults read |grep "name of pref file"

***
Example:

defaults read |grep -i Thunderbird

LSHandlerRoleAll = "org.mozilla.thunderbird";
LSHandlerRoleAll = "org.mozilla.thunderbird";
LSHandlerRoleAll = "org.mozilla.thunderbird";
"Thunderbird_0x1.b7a388cp+27" = {
Name = "Thunderbird.app";
"org.mozilla.thunderbird" = {

(Safari) Make all links open a in a new tab instead of a new window

defaults write com.apple.SafariTargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool TRUE

Restoring the Java share archive

java -version

cd
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Libraries/;
sudo java
-Xdump:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Libraries/classes.jsa
-version

(Mac Mail) Force all messages to display in plain text

defaults write com.apple.mailPreferPlainText -bool TRUE

(Dashboard) How to disable it

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock

(Finder) Show hidden files

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

To disable this feature just change true to false

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

Show nvram settings

nvram -p

Enable verbose on boot

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

Disable verbose on boot

sudo nvram boot-args=

Display Tools in the Developer Library for Quartz Debug

/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools

The speed at which technology is developing in today’s world is truly amazing. Computers are constantly evolving, and growing in speed and processing power. Today’s computers are incredibly fast, and can do the work of a multiplicity of human beings with one key stroke. “In 1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore saw the future. His prediction, popularly known as Moore’s law, states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years. This observation about silicone integration, made a reality by Intel, the world’s largest silicone supplier, has fueled the worldwide technology revolution.” (Gordon Moore) If you look at Moore’s Law, which states that computer processing power will double every one to two years, you can see how fast computers are evolving. Moore’s law has proven to be true over the last forty years. Computers in 1970 had 4004 transistors, and computers today have billions of transistors. That is amazing, and shows how powerful computers can be in the near future. At the current rate of development, computers will undoubtedly raise more and more ethical questions in the near future.
Since the advent of the internet, many ethical questions have been raised in regards to digital rights management, and ownership of the internet addresses themselves. We have seen the rise and fall of Napster, and many peer to peer music collections. We have seen numerous lawsuits raised against digital pirates. We have also seen people buying up all of the internet domain names to make profit off of internet searches. In November 2000, Springsteen filed legal action against Jeff Burgar which accused him of registering the domain brucespringsteen.com (along with several other celebrity domains) in bad faith to funnel web users to his Celebrity 1000 portal site. Once the legal complaint was filed, Burgar pointed the domain to a Springsteen biography and message board. In February 2001, Springsteen lost his dispute with Burgar. A WIPO panel ruled 2 to 1 in favor of Burgar. Although Burgar won this legal battle because he did not break any laws, I find the current regulations for domain registration unethical.
A skier at Colorado’s luxury Vail ski resort was left suffering from a double case of exposure after a freak accident left him dangling upside down and pantless from a ski lift. The seat had been left in the up position so he fell down through the chair catching his pants and one ski. Since the boot didn’t release he was left dangling upside down and exposed for 7 minutes. Bystanders snapped photos and posted them on the internet. Thus, this mishap became International News that same day, January 6, 2009. This poses all kinds of questions in ethics, invasion of privacy, perhaps just common decency. An off duty photographer employed by Sharpshooter Spectrum Imaging took the picture using the company camera, and immediately uploaded this picture to a website. The employee has since been fired, but the question still remains; Is this kind of exposure right?
How do Cyberethics fit into the overall scheme of Information Systems Management? “This is the question we seek to answer. New technology creates challenges in the areas of privacy, property, security and individual identity and radically reshapes life styles around the globe. While the debate continues as we define the field, it seems not unreasonable to suggest that such a task is best handled by those who understand the capabilities and limitations of the technology, the tools of philosophical and ethical reasoning as developed over the centuries, and are sensitive to the spiritual impact of these technologies. Thus, we call for a broad scale dialog to understand, then direct the path of these helpful but disruptive inventions.”
Computers play such a large role in business these days that there are a plethora of careers in the computer field. Jobs have started sprouting up all over the world. Jobs range from phone support all the way to field engineers, network engineers, network architects, and information technology security specialists. The computer industry is huge, and it is constantly growing. Because of the need for computer savvy people, schools have been sprouting up all over the world. In North America there are many schools that started based on the need of computer technicians. There are many nationwide schools like ITT technical Institute, and Devry University. If you use a web search engine such as Google to search computer schools one hundred and seventeen million results come up. It is amazing how vast the computer industry is.

I have worked in the computer industry for roughly four years, and have seen first hand how much computers can assist people in doing their jobs more effectively. Computers offer a huge source for information; compilation of large amounts of information in one place and many sources and connections of information at your fingertips. Computers help people complete jobs that once took hours in minutes, but they can only help us with these jobs if they are working properly, and used correctly. Users that I have helped in the past rely on their computers entirely too much. They do not have a contingency plan in place if they are unable to use their computer to do their work. In this sense their computers are not helping them at all. It actually halts their productiveness at work or school. “After all computers only serve as tools. A tool is only as effectual as the mind that is using it.” (Robert Frost)

On a personal level, computers can be very helpful, but they can also be very intrusive of your privacy, and can hurt us if not used properly. When you swipe one of those member cards at your local supermarket all of your purchases are tracked, and stored in a huge database. These stores do this in order to track peoples shopping habits, and for advertising campaigns. Also the Internal Revenue Service now offers what is called “Electronic Filing” or E-File. This means that you can now do you taxes online. Almost every major bank also has online banking options. These tools can make life much easier for us, but it will never be secure enough. Hackers use computers to steal people’s social security number, and other important information. No matter how secure we make our networks that protect our personal information, their will always be somebody at the other end of the internet that will be able to break the security, and compromise our personal information. In many cases these hackers are more knowledgeable than the information technology security teams that are securing our bank and government networks. This affects people’s credit ratings, and other personal information such as their social security numbers. In many cases it takes people years to rebuild their credit rating. Identification theft is probably our biggest concern in the modern world of technology.

A paradox is a statement or a proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but, in reality expresses a possible truth. The paradox of the computer age is that although computers save us time and energy in dealing with huge amounts of information and data, they complicate our lives at the same time. Expediency supercedes ethics in most marketing uses of computers. Almost any job you can think of can be accomplished faster and more efficiently if you can master a few tasks on the computer. For most people, mastering the computer is an indomitable task. For one thing we don’t all think a problem through in the same way. There are right-brain thinkers and left-brain thinkers. A computer “thinks” laterally and it is very difficult for many people to comprehend how this is done. It is not that you have to know how a computer works, but to be an effective end user you do have to adopt a flexible learning strategy. You have to have a very open mind and think like a child. When one operation does not produce the result you are after you have to be willing to try another and another and another. Most people get frustrated before they can become fluent in computer-esc.

The real paradox about computers is that we cannot live without them in the modern world. Although a computer is just a machine (a bunch of transistors and silicon chips) it is probably the most important communication tool we will ever know. Just consider the way we speak to each other about “snail mail.” I can still write to someone and use the US Mail to send the letter, but the information is already ‘stale’ by the time I attach the stamp to the envelope. Then there is the many day delay in the recipients’ receipt of it. If the news were important and time sensitive I would never consider “snail mail.” I would go directly to one of my email sites and whisk the information off to the recipient in seconds. I would probably get a reply within the same day.

Growing up in a tourist economy (the mountains of Colorado) I noticed how important computers were to the society as a whole. The larger companies such as the resort itself use computers in everything, from the lift ticket scanners to the chairlift control mechanisms. Even to the person on vacation–“getting away from it all.” These tourists would come into the Information Center where my mother worked just to use the computer to catch up on information from home, to pay bills or to reserve a spot in a hotel or on an excursion.

The last time I was in an office supply store I couldn’t help but notice the computer section took up at least two thirds of the store. There were rows and rows of backpacks and leather cases for laptop computers. Aisles and aisles of software, hardware and connectors. Even the paper supplies are mostly for the computer. As paradoxical as it might seem, my computer may be the most important thing in my life.

Works Cited

Frost, Robert. “The pros and cons of technology” .

Overseas Family School. February. 2009.

http://www.ofs.edu.sg/about-ofs/articles/pros-and-cons/.

Gulley, Kathleen. “Pros and Cons of Computer Technology in the Classroom.”.

E journal of education policy. Spring. 2003

http://jep.csus.edu/journal2003/paper5.htm.

Information Systems Ethics. Mississippi State University. 1 Feb. 2009 http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/

Kuennen, Yvonne. Personal Interview. 1 February. 2009.

Moore, Gordon.  “Moore’s Law”

Intel.com. February. 2009.

http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/index.htm.

“Southern Exposure.” Daily Mail. 6 Jan. 2009. 2 Feb. 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1106988/Southern-exposure-Man-left-dangling-trouserless-upside-Vail-ski-lift-mishap.html

“The Pros and Cons of Technology Today”  123helpme.com  February. 2009

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=30009.

Section 1 (Operating System Installation)
1.1 If you have not already installed CentOS, use the configuration options below.
1.2 If you have a fully functional OS up and running, check the settings below.

Section 2 (Installation of Apache)
2.1 Download and install apache.
yum install httpd httpd-devel httpd-server
2.2 Configure Apache to start on all run levels
chkconfig --level 012345 httpd on
2.3 (optional step) Enable clean URLs
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following lines to the modules section
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
AddModule mod_rewrite.c
Add the following lines to your virtual host
Directory /var/www/example.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
/Directory

Section 3 (Installation of MySQL)
3.1 Download and install MySQL Server
yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server
3.2 Change config to start MySQL at all run levels.
chkconfig --level 012345 mysqld on
3.3 Start the MySQL server
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
3.4 Change the root password
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h localhost.localdomain password 'new-password'

Section 4 (Installation of programming libraries)
4.1 Download and install the PHP, Perl, and Python Libraries
(Note you may only need PHP)
yum install perl perl-devel
yum install php php-mysql php-devel php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-gd
4.2 Edit the php config file
vi /etc/php.ini
Change the memory limit to 128MB
memory_limit = 16M --> 128M
Enable mbstring
;mbstring.http_input = auto

Section 5 (Installation of OpenSSL)
5.1 Download and install OpenSSL
yum install openssl
5.2
openssl genrsa 1024 > is418.key
5.3
chmod 400 is418.key
5.4
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 50 -key is418.key > is418.cert
5.5
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Colorado
Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Denver
Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:is418 @ ITT-Tech
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:B Team
Common Name (eg, your name or your server’s hostname) []:node1.bteam.is418.net
Email Address []:tkuennen@ieee.org

Section 6 (Installation of PHPMyAdmin)
Download and install PHPMyAdmin
6.1 Promote yourself to root
su -
6.2 Change to your web directory
cd /var/www/html
6.3 Download PHPMyAdmin
wget -c http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-englis…
6.4 Unzip the package
tar xvfz phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.tar.gz
6.5 Move the install directory to a human readable format
mv phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english phpmyadmin
6.6 Change to the phpmyadmin directory
cd phpmyadmin
6.7 Copy the samle php file to the running config file
cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
6.8. Open the new config file and edit the server string
vi config.inc.php
:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘; # default is cookies
:
6.9. Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Test the installation by navigating to your web server via a browser.

https://your.domain.com/phpmyadmin/

Section 7 (Installing Drupal)
7.1 Download Drupal
wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.x.tar.gz
7.2 Extract the package
tar -zxvpf drupal-x.x.tar.gz
7.3 Move the files to the /var/www/html directory
mv drupal-x.x/* drupal-x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html
7.4 Create the settings file from the template
cp /var/www/html/default.settings.php /var/www/html/setting.php
7.5 Change permissions for the installation process
chmod a+w sites/default/settings.php
7.6 Create the database
mysqladmin -u username -p create databasename
7.7 Run the install script
point to https://localhost and follow the onscreen instructions