Author:
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, August 6th, 2020
Disable NOW in vim:
To disable auto-comments permanently, add the following line to ~/.vimrc:
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autocmd FileType * setlocal formatoptions-=c formatoptions-=r formatoptions-=o |
To see the current settings:
Visit https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Disable_automatic_comment_insertion for more information!
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Auto-Comment, Comment, Comment Insertion, Comments, Disable, howto, Stop, tips, turn off, vim
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Author:
erics, November 19th, 2019
All credit to Graham Walters for this excellent plugin and post, upon which this post is based – thank you, sir! https://grahamwalters.me/lab/disable-wpautop-on-specific-postspages/ Recently, a client was having problems using a plugin called by a shortcode. As it turned out, the JavaScript embedded in the returned content was being broken by the WordPress auto-paragraph feature known […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: add_filter, Auto-Paragraph, autop, Disable, Filter, howto, Page, POST, Prevent, remove_filter, Stop, tips, turn off, WordPress, wpautop
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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, September 15th, 2015
The script to check and restart apache…works on CentOS – YMMV!
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#!/bin/bash MAXLOAD=6 check=$(uptime | awk -F'average: ' '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d ',') if [[ $check > $MAXLOAD ]]; then /sbin/service httpd stop HOST=`hostname` echo $HOST | mailx -s "$HOST load alert - apache STOPPED by cron script" load.alert@your.domain sleep 300 /sbin/service httpd start echo $HOST | mailx -s "$HOST load alert - apache STARTED by cron script" load.alert@your.domain fi |
Add to cron * * * * * /root/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.sh >> /var/log/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.log 2>&1
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apache, AWK, bash, CentOS, howto, httpd, Load, load average, Restart, Stop, tips, Uptime
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Author:
erics, October 12th, 2013
I am tired of various programs taking control of my webcam, i.e. Skype, GoToMeeting and others… After searching for a while I found the following website with two awesome Applescripts, one for Snow Leopard and one for Lion. Open the script in the Applescript Editor, and do a Save As. Choose Application and save someplace […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Camera, Disable, Enable, howto, iSight, Limit, macosx, Stop, tips, turn off, WebCAm
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Author:
erics, October 2nd, 2013
List current iptables entries: iptables -L /etc/init.d/firewall stop ~or~ /etc/init.d/iptables stop ~or~ fwstop.sh
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#!/bin/sh echo "Stopping firewall and allowing everyone..." iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, IPTables, Stop, tips, turn off, Ubuntu
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