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Archive for the ‘OS X 10.10 Yosemite’ Category

Building and running upc_keys.c on Mac OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/27

Even after the SpeedTouch password algorithms were disclosed 2008, ISPs keep using weak algorithms to generate their default WPA/WPA2 passwords in their routers:

A short while ago, blasty published code to generate the WPA2 passwords for UPC routers. Even though Ziggo now owns UPC, a lot of  this UPC equipment is still in use. I guess it won’t be for long that similar code for Ziggo routers will be published too.

The code at https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c is easy to download, build and run on a Mac OS X machine even when you don’t have Xcode installed (use the “xcode-select –install” trick):

wget https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c
gcc -O2 -o upc_keys upc_keys.c -lcrypto
./upc_keys UPC0053284 5
./upc_keys UPC0053284 24

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, C, Development, gcc, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

dig show only the answer section: specify both +noall and +answer – via: Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/25

The solution: add both the +noall and +answer flags before the query.

dig +noall +answer google.de

–jeroen

via dig show only answer – Server Fault.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

Getting your public IP address from the command-line

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/13

Many sites giving your public IP address return a web page with a bloat of html. From the command-line, you are usually only interested in the IP-address itself. Few services return exactly that.

Below are command-line examples to provide the public IP address mostly from a *nix perspective. Usually you can get similar commands to work with Windows binaries for wget and Windows binaries for curl.

In the end, I’ve opted for commands in this format, as I think akamai will last longer than the other sites (but does not include an end-of-line in the http result hence the echo on Mac/*nix):

I’ve not tried aria2 yet, but might provide commands for that in the future.

These are the Linux permutations for akamai:

curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo && curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo

The last two are convenient when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on “the outside”.

You can replace curl with wget -q -O – (which outputs to stdout) for each command. You can even ommit the http:// (as that is the default protocol for both curl and wget).

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, bash, Batch-Files, cURL, Development, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, wget | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X: integrating Beyond Compare 4 into SourceTree 2.x

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/28

Unlike SourceTree for Windows, SourceTree for Mac still doesn’t automagically detect Beyond Compare even though that has been available for Mac OS X since :  [SRCTREE-2092] Add built-in support for Beyond Compare version 4 – Atlassian JIRA.

Even modifying my ~/.gitconfig didn’t work, but manual configuration did. Here are the steps:

  1. Start the UI version of Beyond Compare
  2. Select the Beyond Compare menu, install the command-line tools
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Posted in Apple, Beyond Compare, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Source Code Management, SourceTree | 3 Comments »

How to verify app signatures in OS X | MacIssues

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/18

Interesting:

For codesign verification:

find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec codesign --verify --verbose {} \;

For system policy assessment:

find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec spctl --assess --verbose {} \;

–jeroen

Source: How to verify app signatures in OS X | MacIssues

Posted in Apple, bash, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Double up two Ultimate Ears devices to your Mac (or PC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/16

Two great Ultimate Ears tricks. First pairing them (thanks daleph, see also the video below):

To pair 2 devices without an app:

  1. Pair the FIRST speaker with your mac:
    1. Go to System Preferences > Bluetooth
    2. Press and hold the Bluetooth button until a tone is heard, it should appear as UM BOOM, pair it.
  2. Start playing music
  3. On the device now playing music press and hold the + and the Bluetooth keys until a tone is heard
  4. On the SECOND speaker press the Bluetooth button twice quickly
  5. After a few seconds both speakers will join together

They are only added as an identical pair, NOT Left and Right stereo

HTH

Dale

Source: Re: UE Boom app for Mac – Logitech Forums

Then doing double up in stereo (thanks tomborai and McAllan):

There IS a way… you just gotta find a buddy who has the UE Boom App on either iOS or Android.

Set up STEREO mode and enable “Double Up Lock” just once with the App, ensure it plays proper stereo, then disconnect and power off both speakers.

App no longer needed.

Whenever you desire, power on both speakers around the same time, they will pair within seconds.

Then take your MAC, pair the first speaker only (LEFT), et voila, the speakers have memorized the stereo mode, enjoy!

Sources:

–jeroen

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Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | 4 Comments »

osx – How to find wifi password on my mac which is already connected – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/01

To view a WiFi password on OS X for an SSID you have been connected to before (you don’t need to be connected to it now):

  1. Open “Keychain Access” (for instance by first finding it in Spotlight)
  2. Sort on “Kind”, as the WiFi passwords are of kind “AirPort network password”
  3. In the find box, type your WiFi SSID. Note that – unlike Spotlight – it is:
    1. case sensitive
    2. need to match from the start
  4. Double click the matching entry for keychain “iCloud” (preferred) or “System” (needs additional step)
  5. Put a checkmark in front of “Show password”
  6. Depending on the keychain type:
    1. If it was an “iCloud” keychain
      1. then enter your keychain password
    2. If it was a “System” keychain
      1. Enter your system password
      2. Enter a username and password for the “System” keychain
  7. The password is shown

–jeroen

via: osx – How to find wifi password on my mac which is already connected – Ask Different.

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X: getting default route and ip addresses

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/30

On Mac OS X, bare route and ifconfig give way too much information to view the most important things at once.

So I used an alias for this:

route -n get default | grep 'gateway' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6'

Later I needed IPv6 support, so I changed it to:

netstat -nr | grep 'Internet\|Gateway\|default' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6'

So you get something like this:

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.178.1      UGSc           23        0     en4
default            192.168.71.1       UGScI           7        0     en0
Internet6:
Destination                             Gateway                         Flags         Netif Expire
default                                 fe80::3631:c4ff:fe47:13f1%en0   UGc             en0

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet6 fe80::6203:8ff:fea2:4814%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
    inet 192.168.71.40 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.71.255
    inet6 2001:982:2345:1:6203:8ff:fea2:4814 prefixlen 64 autoconf 
    inet6 2001:982:2345:1:4011:119a:e527:e021 prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary 
en1: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
en4: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet6 fe80::426c:8fff:fe44:95ea%en4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
    inet6 fd00::426c:8fff:fe44:95ea prefixlen 64 detached autoconf 
    inet6 fd00::74a7:8f26:cd22:20b7 prefixlen 64 detached autoconf temporary 
    inet 192.168.178.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255

–jeroen

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OS/X – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16

The only reliable way to create a remote print-screen is by using the Windows On-Screen Keyboard. It even works with Alt-Prt+Sc to make screenshots of individual Windows.

Just run OSK to start the On-Screen Keyboard.

–jeroen

via: osx – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User.

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

osx – Toggle AppleShowAllFiles with a simple bash script? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/15

LOL:

The if syntax of your script was a bit…well, iffy.

Indeed it is:

#!/bin/bash
#toggle AppleShowAllFiles

current_value=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles)
if [ $current_value = "TRUE" ]
then
  defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
else
  defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
fi

killall Finder

Even the alternative if statement is:

if [[ $(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles) == TRUE ]]

–jeroen

via osx – Toggle AppleShowAllFiles with a simple bash script? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Apple, bash, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »