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erics, December 2nd, 2021
Use AutoRaise! From the docs: “When you hover a window it will be raised to the front (with a delay of your choosing) and gets the focus.” Web page: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise Download: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
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unzip -d ~ ~/Downloads/AutoRaise-master.zip cd ~/AutoRaise-master && make clean && make make install |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, AutoRaise, Delay, Focus, Focus Follows Mouse, Follow, Hover, howto, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Mouse, Raise, tips, window
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Author:
erics, November 2nd, 2021
I needed a way to get the dock icon to bounce for all incoming emails and there did not seem to be any option to do so. There is actually a simple way to do it, but it is not intuitive. The key is to add a new Rule! Open Mail.app and choose Mail -> […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Add rule, apple, Bounce, Bounce dock icon, Bounce icon, Dock, Email, Email rule, Force, howto, Icon, Incoming, Incoming mail, Mac, MacOS, macosx, mail, Mail rule, Mail.app, new email, New mail, Rule, Rules, tips
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erics, April 23rd, 2021
Ever get the spinning beachball when trying to access the top menu on your Mac? SOLUTIONS Use the GUI Open the Activity Monitor application Select All Processes from the View menu Click on the SystemUIServer process, then click Force Quit. ~or~ Via CLI In Terminal, execute killall SystemUIServer
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Activity Monitor, All Processes, apple, BeachBall, Force, Force Quit, Hang, Hung, Kill, killall, killall SystemUIServer, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Menu, Quit, Restart, Shell, Spiining beachball, Stop, SystemUIServer, Terminal, Top Menu
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Author:
erics, February 26th, 2021
On MacOSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, I was having trouble with Spotlight preventing the clean eject of an attached hard drive. Using the fuser command allowed me to see that it what the Spotlight-specific mds process preventing the eject.
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fuser -u /Volumes/Archive03 |
At first, I tried to disable the indexing via the mdutil command, but that just gave me […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, apple, Disable, diskutil, eject, Halt, howto, Index, Indexing, Mac, MacOS, macosx, mdutil, metadata_never_index, Prevent, Spotlight, Stop, tips, Touch, umountDisk, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, October 29th, 2020
First quit Mail, if open. In Terminal, enter the following to disable the Data Detectors which could be responsible for the hang:
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defaults write com.apple.terminal DisableDataDetectors YES |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Freeze, Hang, howto, MacOS, macosx, select, selection, Terminal, text(), tips
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Author:
erics, October 11th, 2020
Format the new USB flash drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and label it “MyVolume” Click the Mojave Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?ls=1&mt=12 Download the installer package from the App store – it will land in the main /Applications folder. Open Terminal and run:
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sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume |
Full article at Apple Support “How to create a bootable installer for […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, boot, Bootable, Catalina, createinstallmedia, Download, Drive, Flash, High Sierra, Install, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Mojave, Reinstall, Terminal, USB
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Author:
erics, April 5th, 2020
As a non-root user:
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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" brew install cmake brew install openssl brew install mysql@5.6 brew services start mysql@5.6 brew link mysql@5.6 --force mysql |
Make sure your PATH contains /usr/local/bin
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: /usr/local, /usr/local/bin, 5.6, apple, Brew, cmake, Homebrew, howto, Install, Launchd, Link, MacOS, macosx, mysql, MySQL 5.6, mysql@5.6, openssl, Services, tips
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Author:
erics, November 24th, 2019
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine {dirname} ~or~ xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine *
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, attr, Attribute, Change, com.apple.quarantine, comacast, Delete, directory, howto, MacOS, macosx, Quarantine, Remove, Terminal, tips, Tree, xattr
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Author:
erics, May 28th, 2019
I use csshX on a daily basis. The default layout on my screen for three nodes is one column with three rows, one per node. This layout is excellent for visual positioning, but does make it harder to read long output. For this purpose, I start csshX using the column quantity specifier -x and I […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Column, csshX, Force, Horizontal, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Retile, Row, ssh, Terminal, Tile, Vertical
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Author:
erics, May 10th, 2019
I was getting rsync errors from one source host:
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Corrupted MAC on input. Disconnecting: Packet corrupt |
Finally tracked it down to the application “Little Snitch”. Needed to fully uninstall it and reboot to get the problem solved.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: corrupt, Corrupted MAC on input, howto, Little Snitch, MacOS, macosx, Packet corrupt, rsync, Snitch, Snow Leopard, tips
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