Archive for the ‘Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/17
I wasn’t expecting it to be so easy to install PowerShell on Mac OS X:
brew install Caskroom/cask/powershell
In the background it executes this script: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/powershell.rb. which indirectly goes through the URL template https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v#{version}/powershell-#{version}.pkg.
On other non-Windows systems, you have to go through GitHub yourself: https://github.com/powershell/PowerShell. The PowerShell team at Microsoft has many more repositories including the Win32-OpenSSH port which you can find through https://github.com/PowerShell.
At the time of writing, PowerShell was available for these platforms:
The first version I installed on Mac OS X was this: ==> Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.17/powershell-6.0.0-alpha.17.pkg
By now I really hope it is out of Alpha state.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11
- Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
- Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
- Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window
Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBack] Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/16
Learn one way to change Excel’s Control-U shortcut to the easier-to-use F2 (which also matches the Windows’ shortcut).
Ah, so Ctrl-U is the shortcut to edit a cell on Mac OS X with Microsoft Office Excel (:
Source: [WayBack] Change Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13
When you have many /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files, then this is how to get rid of them (it happened to me on a fresh Sierra machine):
At least on macOS Sierra (10.12):
- You can see what WIFI related components have debug logging enabled with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug
- You can disable all debug logging with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug -AllUserland -AllDriver -AllVendor
For whatever reason, the debug logging flag was enabled for ‘DriverWPA’ on my machine and that resulted in /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files getting generated when joining new WPA2 protected WIFI networks.
Source: [WayBack] macos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User; thanks [WayBack] MattLord for answering that!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
TL;DR: Connecting to Macs over Thunderbolt is easy and has transfer speeds way faster than other network connections.
Summary of steps from [WayBack] Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld
- Connect the Thunderbolt cable between two Macs
- In the Network Preferences find the self-assigned IP address on either side
- In that side, ensure you have File Sharing enabled
- On the other side, open a Finder, press Command-K, then the IP-address you noted and logon
- Transfer files
This also increases LAN sync speeds of DropBox, Google Drive and others.
Note the connection by default using SMB
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/28
Some notes and links on http://www.magewell.com/usb-capture-hdmi with specs at http://www.magewell.com/usb-capture-hdmi/tech-specs
USBCaptureHDMI-Installation-Guide-en-2.0.pdf USB-Capture-HDMI-User-Guide-en.pdf USB-Capture-HDMI_Spec-sheet.pdf
http://www.magewell.com/files/CaptureStudio.zip
The video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbjIx1qhvpM uses Quickier
I used QCamera: the XI100USB shows up as a camera.
Note capturing takes a lot of CPU power, so ensure you’re not running on battery.
I didn’t need any of these downloads:
On a Mac any of these software tools should work as well:
- Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
- Adobe Connect
- CoGe VJ
- Discover Video Streamsie
- Gotomeeting
- GrandVJ
- MadMapper
- mimoLive
- OBS studio
- Quicklaunch
- QuickTime Broadcaster
- QuickTime Player
- Resolume
- Skype
- Streambox
- Video Stitch
- VirtualDub
- VLC
- Wirecast
- Zoom.us
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27
From the “I hate my users” department:
- This dialog pops up every 10 seconds
- The Office 2011 for Mac update requires non-Office apps to quit as well
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
I forgot to blog about this before, but 2 months ago PowerShell core came available: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported! | PowerShell Team Blog.
[WayBack] Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs is easy (one way is through homebrew:
$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew cask install powershell
If you already installed a beta, then the steps are these:
$ brew update
$ brew cask reinstall powershell
Note that after installation, it is known as pwsh (at least one of the betas named it powershell) to set PowerShell Core apart from PowerShell*:
$ pwsh --version
PowerShell v6.0.2
Via: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
*pwsh versus powershell
There has been quite a discussion on the PowerShell Core repository on the rename, but I think it is for a good reason.
Too bad that during part of the beta, the old name powershell was used, but beta-time means things break every now and then.
PowerShell Core is sufficiently different from prior PowerShell versions to warrant a name change. This also makes it a lot easier to use them side-by-side.
Many other names (like posh, pcsh or psh) were considered, usually because of naming conflicts with existing tools (like posh) or easy confusion with existing shells (like pcsh and csh). A benefit on Linux/macOS is that it now ends with sh like virtually all other shells.
More background information is at:
–jeroen
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