In addition to my post about Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel, restarting a hanging Tunnelblick is even easier:
killall Tunnelblick
open -a Tunnelblick
–jeroen
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Mac OS X: restarting Tunnelblick when it isn’t responding any more
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
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Mac OS X – serial communication programs
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/30
Some links that helped me getting FTDI USB serial communication to Raspberry Pi systems going:
- Serial adapter drivers, programs, pinout, and tips for console TTY’s on a Mac.Source: Mac’s and serial TTY’s
- List of GUI terminal emulation software for console TTY’s on a Mac with OS X.Source: Mac OS X Serial Applications
- Source: Is there an OS X terminal program that can access serial ports? – Ask Different
- Source: SHA – – – Raspberry Pi – RS232 Serial Interface Options (Revisit)
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Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/29
Every now and then, Google Drive on Mac OS X gets confused and starts showing the spinning wheel when hovering over the menu bar icon similar to for instance DropBox does every once in a while.
This is how to terminate and restart Google Drive from the terminal (no need for su):
killall -v -SIGKILL Google\ Drive
open -a Google\ Drive
Alternatively you can start Google Drive using this:
/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive &
I found this executable through osx – Find all executable files within a folder in terminal – Ask Different
Note that this won’t kill Google Drive as it sends the TERM signal (SIGTERM):
killall -v Google\ Drive
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ducks: How Do I Find The Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On a Linux / UNIX / BSD?
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/20
Explains how to find out top 10 files and directories under Unix / Linux using sort and du command in human-readable format.
Interesting, especially
alias 'ducks=du -cks * | sort -rn | head'
Source: How Do I Find The Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On a Linux / UNIX / BSD?
via: Joe C. Hecht and nixCraft.
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Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 on OS X stores RDP configuration in com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist and passwords in keychain
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15
One day I write some scripts based on:
- /usr/bin/plutil
- /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
Some starting materials are at:
- How To: Create a Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 Connection | macmule
- com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist needs to be binary for RDP to work and XML to edit it manually (use plutil to do the conversion)
- macmule/Create-a-Microsoft-Remote-Desktop-8-Connection
- Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 – JAMF Nation
- remote desktop – Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store it’s configuration – Ask Different
- .rdp files are now using the XML plist format: Microsoft releases Remote Desktop 8.0 for Android, iOS and Mac | OfficeforMacHelp.com
- CoRD .rdp files seem to share the same XML plist format: Transfer CoRD bookmarks to Microsoft Remote Desktop | OfficeforMacHelp.com
A thing I learned is that the Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 is basically a rebranded iTap RDP (it looks like Microsoft bought iTap RDP for Mac, as iTap RDP for Mac is now discontinued)
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iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow: 2 simple steps solved that
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow. During startup, it wasn’t using much memory, but during editing it did: less than 2 gigabyte out of 8 gigabyte free memory left.
The hard-disk was like 30% full, there wasn’t much in the cache, few processes were auto-starting and the recycle bin was almost empty.
So my first thought was adding more RAM (which is easy): duplicating it to 16 megabyte was easy and not expensive when you look at the Amazon prices for it.
After that it was faster, but not really fast: especially the loading was still slow (less slow than before, but still taking minutes).
Then I scanned for permission issues and there were quite a few as the machine had been getting updates since 2010. So I repaired the permissions using disk utility.
Now iMovie loaded much faster as well: in under a minute.
So out of 17 Ways to Speed Up Mac OS X Lion – ChrisWrites.com, only 2 steps were really needed so far.
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Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/20
Source: Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different [WayBack]:
This fix from Reddit worked perfectly for me!!
http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/2jtikj/finder_not_responding_new_yosemite_install/ [WayBack]
You can most likely fix the issue by clearing out Finder’s saved state, caches, and/or settings.
Use Spotlight (the search icon in the far right of the menu bar) to find and open the “Terminal” application. Triple-click the following line in order to copy and paste it into Terminal’s window:
rm -fR ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder; killall FinderIf it still doesn’t work, try this one:
mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder{,.backup}.plist; killall Finder
–jeroen
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Managing WIFI connections using the Mac OSX…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/10
These links:
- [Wayback/Archive] Managing WIFI connections using the Mac OSX…
- [Wayback/Archive] Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X
- [Wayback/Archive] airport – the Little Known Command Line Wireless Utility
Made me add this to my ~/.bash_profile:
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Date format converter from Text or Unix/Mac/Filetime/Microsoft to virtually any readable form
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/09
Brilliant Date format converter from dates in Text (almost any format) or timestamp numbers in Unix, Mac, Filetime or Microsoft (which is the same as Delphi TDateTime) format to any of these formats:
Text Date:
Date in human-readable textWednesday, March 23, 2016 4:05:39pm RFC 822:
RFC 822 formatted dateWed, 23 Mar 2016 16:05:39 +0000 ISO 8601:
ISO 8601 formatted date2016-03-23T16:05:39+00:00 UNIX Timestamp:
seconds since Jan 1 19701458749139 Mac Timestamp:
seconds since Jan 1 19043541593939 Microsoft Timestamp:
days since Dec 31 189942452.670590278 FILETIME:
100-nanoseconds since Jan 1 1601131032227390000000
01D1851D:D7B58B80
Source: Date format converter
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Determining the current shell in *n*x variants including ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/08
On most systems, I use bash as shell, but not all systems have it, for instance the shell.xs4all.nl server uses tcsh and ESXi 4+ uses a very limited ash shell from busybox (ESX 4 had bash though).
There is this huge script that covers many shell and operating system versions (even DOS, Windows) and interpreters (python, ruby, php, etc) what shell is this which I got through Stéphane Chazelas‘s answer in linux – determine shell in script during runtime – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
I wanted a shorter thing that works in current Linux, BSD, OS X and ESXi versions.
Some very short scripts are less reliable, for instance echo $SHELL looks nice, but isn’t always set.
Similar for echo $0 which will fail for instance if it shows as sh but in fact is a different shell in disguise.
This works for bash, tcsh and busybox sh, is a bit more precise than getting $0. It’s based on HOWTO: Detect bash from shell script – Stack Overflow:
lsof -p $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1}'
But on ESXi it shows this because lsof doesn’t take any parameter there and just dumps all information:
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
It’s because lsof on ESXi always shows this header where Cartel and World aren’t exactly well documented:
Cartel | World name | Type | fd | Description
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
Empirically for non VM related processes, it looks like the Cartel is the PID and World name the command.
On Linux and BSD based systems, the header looks like this, so command and PID are reversed in ESXi:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
This command then works on both ESXi, OS X, Linux and BSD assuming you can word search for the PID and noting that PID/command will be reversed on ESXi as compared to OSX/Linux/BSD:
lsof -p $$ | grep -w $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1,$2}'
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