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Enter this command:

defaults write -g com.apple.keyboard.fnState -boolean true

1.  Go to safe mode (shift + on together)

2.  When bar appears at bottom, let go of shift

3.  Click "Go" on top line- Hold option key- Click on "Library"

4.  Take "Saved Application State" and drag to trash can

5.  Go to Apple icon on top line & Press Restart

6.  Computer will turn off- then turn on

7.  Safari should now work properly    

Last week, Russian anti-virus firm Doctor Web disclosed a newly discovered piece of OS X malware known as Mac.BackDoor.iWorm that at the time had affected roughly 17,000 machines around the world. While the exact mechanism of infection was unclear, an interesting twist to the story involves compromised machines running search queries on Reddit to obtain instructions about which command and control servers should be used to manage the botnet.

Once connected to a command and control server, the backdoor opened by the malware on the user's system can receive instructions to perform a variety of tasks, from stealing sensitive information to receiving or spreading additional malware. 

In an effort to address the threat, Apple has now updated its "Xprotect" anti-malware system to recognize two different variants of the iWorm malware and prevent them from being installed on users' machines.

Rumpus is a great FTP product that has a web interface as well.  The issue with installing Rumpus on OS X Server is that the default web ports are used by the server itself.

So if you are not planning on using web services or, more importantly, Profile Manager.  You can follow the steps in Maxum Development's blog post to disable the built-in apache service in OS X Server.  You can then enable Rumpus on port 80 or 443.

Many administrators who use OS X have a good understanding of the command line interface and how to use it, and can often accomplish what they want to doing so. I for one, happen to be one of those. However there are times when using the CLI is just a bit more cumbersome than I'd prefer. A great example is manually editing a file that I don't have write access too. I am alright with vi as a command line text editor, but Text Edit, in plain text mode, is sometimes just more convenient. Unfortunately, while administrators can easily authenticate as, or obtain root access in the CLI, doing so in the GUI without enabling, and logging in as the root user is much more difficult. Thankfully, you can run an application as root by using a quick command in the terminal application.

Open the Terminal application. At the prompt, type the sudo command and then the path to the executable file inside an application's bundle. We'll use TextEdit for this example: