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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/11
Great video that shows the console text editors Pico, Nano, Vi and Emacs on Mac OS X.
Many Mac users don’t know how powerful the console terminal can be, but since it is BSD based, it has a very broad set of commands available on the console.
If you need a text editor like Joe, then you can install it from the THE GNU MAC OS X Public Archive using this as a download page: PROJECT DETAIL for Joe’s Own Editor.
More info about joe:
–jeroen
via MacMost Now 256: Using the Text Editors Hidden in Terminal.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/08
While an Android device connects seamlesly to a Windows computer, you need to install Android File Transfer and run it each time you want to connect to it from a Mac running OS X.
See: Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB – Android OS Help.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/18
Martin Millstam posted this on Google Groups:
I figured out that it was the number of active downloads.
Not very intuitive as I first thought it was pending updates to Chrome, then to Extensions.
It turned out to be the number of active downloads.
It wasn’t intuitive for me either (:
–jeroen
via: On Mac, Chrome dock Icon shows a number on it: what does this mean? – Google Groups.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/04
One of the things that bugged me when using Mac OS X after years of Windows usage was that the Tab key doesn’t focus buttons in dialogs.
Luckily, there is a setting for that, which by default is off.
Steps (press on a screenshot to enlarge):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/12
Though Apple prominently advertises with the OS X name, they give Mac users a hard time finding it:
None of the built in options like “About this Mac” or “Software Update…” tell you the OS X name. They only tell you the OS X version number.
So I grabbed this list from the OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. article:
- Public Beta: “Kodiak”
- Version 10.0: “Cheetah”
- Version 10.1: “Puma”
- Version 10.2: “Jaguar”
- Version 10.3: “Panther”
- Version 10.4: “Tiger”
- Version 10.5: “Leopard”
- Version 10.6: “Snow Leopard”
- Version 10.7: “Lion”
- Version 10.8: “Mountain Lion”
This list was correct at the time of writing, but Wikipedia probably keeps a better track at updating than I do, so after publication my list might lag behind.
–jeroen
via OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/13
Edit:
After writing this, DSA got deprecated then later removed. See [WayBack] Secure Secure Shell.
When working with SSH private/public keys (often because of ssh-keygen), and using DSA for auhtentication, these are the relevant files:
- $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa:
(on the local system)
The $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa file contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
- $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub:
(on the local system)
The $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file contains the DSA public key for authentication when you are using the SSH protocol version 2. A user should copy its contents in the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote system where a user wants to log in using DSA authentication.
- $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys:
(on the remote system)
The $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file contains authorized DSA public keys (each line is the contents of a $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file) of users on systems that are auhorized to login on the remote system.
Important:
Be sure to transfer the contents of the local $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file to the remote system in a secure way.
–jeroen
via ssh-keygen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/10
Finder on your Mac by default does not show hidden files, and the console has vi, which lots of people find awkward to use.
There is an easy trick to open a hidden file like ~/.bash_profile (for instance to add an alias) with a visual text editor.
Just execute this in your terminal:
- Always with TextEdit
open -e ~/.bash_profile
- For the default text editor (usually TextEdit)
open -t ~/.bash_profile
- For a specific text editor (in this cast TextWrangler)
open -b com.barebones.textwrangler ~/.bash_profile
The man open(1) page has more information on the parameters you can pass to open.
–jeroen
PS: You can teach Finder to Quickly show and hide hidden files | Finder, Terminal | Mac OS X Tips.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/06
This 5 year article from 2007 (which was an update for the 2002 version) is still very up to date in 2012: Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks – O’Reilly Media.
Originally it was to promote Mac OS X for Unix Geeks – O’Reilly Media. In between the updates there was Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, 2nd Edition – O’Reilly Media.
Now it is to promote Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (Leopard), 4th Edition – O’Reilly Media.
Note there is also a nice, but independent presentation with the same title from HTGR-MacOSX.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/05
It starts to be not so funny any more: almost every week a new Java security update.
Time to update again, to stay secure and install the patch: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
On the funny side: Java 0day countdown.
–jeroen
via: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/18
Phoenix Slides is a great tiny (about 600 kilobyte) slide show viewer for Mac OS/X that supports directory recursion.
Great! Finally I can use my Mac (-Mini server, or -Book Air) showing pictures the way I want it to show them (:
Features
- fast (pre-cached) full-screen slideshows
- rotate/zoom in slideshow
- fast JPEG thumbnails (uses Epeg)
- lossless JPEG rotation
- view EXIF data, JPEG comments
- search subfolders (recursively) for images
- move files to trash, set image as desktop
- supports drag and drop, Finder aliases
- Localizations: Chinese, German, Spanish, French
- Universal binary (runs on Intel Macs)
–jeroen
via Phoenix Slides.
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