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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Author:
erics, February 16th, 2019
As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal provides Services for opening a new terminal window or tab at the selected folder in Finder. They also work with absolute pathnames selected in text (in any application). You can enable these services with System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. Look for “New Terminal […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Finder, howto, Keyboard, MacOS, macosx, Menu, Mojave, Open, Services, Terminal, tips, window
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Author:
erics, February 4th, 2019
Use the ssh-keygen command on a computer to which you’ve downloaded your private key .pem file; for example: First, ensure permissions will allow ssh-keygen to work: chmod 600 /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem Then generate an RSA public key: ssh-keygen -y -f /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem > your-key-pair.pub
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: .pem, .pub, Amazon, apple, AWS, cli, howto, key, key-pair, KeyPair, Linux, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Pubkey, public, Public Key, ssh-keygen, tips
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Author:
erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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Author:
erics, January 4th, 2018
I was running out of memory constantly on Yosemite 10.10.5 and found the following article: https://discussions.apple.com/message/26929324?start=555&tstart=0 Edited and reposted without permission below… Disconnect any external or secondary monitors, if any is present. The video memory allocation leak can also happen if you have a system with an integrated card, like Intel, with no external monitors […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, howto, Leak, macosx, Memory, Memory Leak, PRAM, PRAM Reset, Reset, SMC, SMC Reset, tips, Yosemite
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