Interesting read: [WayBack] Setting Up a New Mac: Should You Migrate or Do a Clean Installation? | The Mac Security Blog
–jeroen
Archive for the ‘Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS’ Category
Setting Up a New Mac: Should You Migrate or Do a Clean Installation? | The Mac Security Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/07
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How to start up your Mac in Internet Recovery Mode
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/13
When all else fails: [WayBack] How to start up your Mac in Internet Recovery Mode.
Command-Option-R is one of the plethora of keyboard tricks you can use during boot:
Some Mac features are available by holding down certain keys during startup.
[WayBack] Startup key combinations for Mac – Apple Support
Hold during startup Description Shift ⇧ Start up in Safe Mode. Option ⌥ Start up to Startup Manager. C Start up from a bootable CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive (such as OS X install media). D Start up to either Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics, depending on which Mac you’re using. Option-D Start up to either Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics over the Internet. N Start up from a compatible NetBoot server. Option-N Start up from a NetBoot server using the default boot image. Command (⌘)-R Start up from OS X Recovery. Command-Option-R Start up from OS X Recovery over the Internet. Command-Option-P-R Reset NVRAM. Release the keys after you hear the startup sound again. Command-S Start up in single-user mode. T Start up in target disk mode. X Start up from an OS X startup volume when the Mac would otherwise start up from a non-OS X startup volume. Command-V Start up in verbose mode. Eject (⏏), F12, mouse button, or trackpad button Eject removable media, such as an optical disc.
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How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/03
Link archival: [WayBack] How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac:
In this article, I’ll take you through the process of installing Node.js and NPM on a Mac using Homebrew.
TL;DR
- Ensure you have installed
homebrew. - Run
brew install node.
–jeroen
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How to Update All Your Ruby Gems At Once | Life, the Universe, and Everything
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/26
This looks smart
gem update `gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1`From: [WayBack] How to Update All Your Ruby Gems At Once | Life, the Universe, and Everything
Though on the bash prompt, it works fine on Mac OS X / OS X / macOS / …, it does not work nice as an alias.
You can get it to work with difficult escaping (or nesting).
But it is easier to escape this:
gem update $(gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
Escaped, it comes down to:
alias "gem-update-all=gem update \$(gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
Based on:
- [WayBack] Shell expansion: 3.4.5. Command substitution
- via [WayBack] escaping – Bash: Nested backticks in alias cause problems – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Signal messaging downloads
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23
I forgot about the announcement that Signal had also become available on the Desktop, but it is via [WayBack] https://signal.org/download/:
- Mac
- Windows
- Debian based x64 Linux:
$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop
I like the mix of echo and tee to update the [WayBack] /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder with the signal-xenial.list file.
These links will always give you the latest download filename:
- Mac: https://updates.signal.org/desktop/latest-mac.yml
- Windows: https://updates.signal.org/desktop/latest.yml
The files you get there will be relative to the path https://updates.signal.org/desktop/ so will be similar to:
Signal-win-1.0.36.exe-> https://updates.signal.org/desktop/Signal-win-1.0.36.exeSignal-mac-1.0.36.zip-> https://updates.signal.org/desktop/Signal-mac-1.0.36.zip
You can get the sources at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases
Via:
- [WayBack] Standalone Signal Desktop: Signal Desktop is now available in a new, standalone form, and the Chrome App has been deprecated.
- [WayBack] Signal for the desktop, I like: https://signal.org/download/ – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+ (which I remembered when I saw the download page)
–jeroen
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