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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/09
So I gave my mom an iPad. But she doesn’t have a credit card. As having one is not usual for Dutch people, especially for elderly Dutch people. Why would you need one if you can pay anything you require online with your Bank Card?
Well: from an iPad, you cannot sign in to iTunes without first adding a credit card. There is no other way. No bank account (which is very common in Europe). No iTunes voucher. No nothing. This is what you have to do:
If you’ve already created your Apple ID, you’ll need to add a payment method when you first use it to sign in to the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store. But you can optionally remove the payment method after you sign in to the store. You won’t be asked for a payment method again until you make your first purchase.
I haven’t even checked iTunes for on her PC, as iTunes is so utterly user unfriendly (for instance you cannot drag-drop music to your iPad from a folder. You need iTunes and I’d need to explain here about all sorts of clouds other than where rain comes from) that I won’t even try to teach her how to use it.
What I finally did is add my own credit card (apparently they don’t do name or address checks), then remove it.
–jeroen
Source: Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method – Apple Support
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18
You need this statement to unpack an rpm file on Mac OS X without having rpm installed:
rpm2cpio ##filename.rpm## | cpio -idmv
This will make rpm2cpio unpack the rpm file in the current directory using these cpio options:
- i – use the rpm2cpoio as unput
- d – created directories when needed
- m – set modification timestamps from the archive
- v – verbose filenames to
stderr
cpio is already part of the Mac OS X system.
You can get rpm2cpio through homebrew by typing brew install rpm2cpio which will likely also download he xz dependency.
–jeroen
via: rhel – Open a RPM on a Mac? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/04
Skip the built-in curl and directly go to the homebrew one:
$ brew update
$ brew upgrade
$ brew install curl --with-nghttp2
Source: How to use curl command with http/2 on MacOS X [WayBack]
via: Using cURL with HTTP/2 on Mac OS X #sysadmin #unix #apple #macos – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Home brew / homebrew, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
display – How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks? – Ask Different [WayBack]
You can only move spaces which are non-active.
For example, lets say you have spaces 1 and 2. If space 1 is active, you can not move it. You first have to select space 2 then you can move space 1 to a different monitor.
This helped me work around version 8.35 of Microsoft Remote Desktop for OS X breaks second monitor usage [WayBack]:
- Double click a connection so it goes to a new space on the primary display
- Make the normal space active (by three finger swiping on the primary display)
- Go to mission control
- Move the non-active RDP space to the secondary monitor
Sometimes the primary monitor doesn’t have a non-active space any more so you have to create a new one in the top right of Mission Control [WayBack].
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/19
One of the nitpicks in VMware Fusion is that it has no keyboard shortcut for Resume or Suspend. I was trying to add Command-R and Command-S for those but that didn’t work out.
Since the links below seem to work for some other applications, I’ve kept them:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Really interesting stuff: ttystudio. It allows to record an apng or gif of a terminal session (so it should work on headless systems).
Anyone knowing alternatives for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X?
(Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap might cut it on Mac OS X, but not on headless systems so GNOME/byzanz doesn’t cut it either)
Sources:
Handy as well:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07
The most recent versions of Joe don’t even build from stock in OS X any more and there are no direct installers for them.
But there are two most recent older versions that have installers, and a formula recent brew based HomeBrew installation:
- joe-3.7-0.pkg – rudix-snowleopard – JOE – Rudix: The hassle-free way to get Unix programs on Mac OS X – Google Project Hosting.
- PROJECT DETAIL for Joe’s Own Editor.
- Homebrew Formulas – Joe.
After experimenting for a while without brew preferring the first over second, I’ve installed the the third as:
- The first actually installs version 3.6, but has the syntax highlighting files installed in the correct place, so you get syntax highlighting.
- The second does install version 3.7, but since the syntax highlighting files are in the wrong place: you get no syntax highlighting.
- The brew formula has an up to date joe version 4.0 and installs the syntax highlighting in the right place: you get syntax highlighting.
Before making a choice, you might want to consider reading about joe versions in JOE – Joe’s own editor / … /NEWS.md.
Having a background partially in the Linux world, I tried building joe from source on my Mac following the steps at JOE – Joe’s own editor / Discussion / joe-editor-general:Mac binary for 3.3 does not run on OS/X 10.8. It failed because the Mercurial 3.8 branch required automake and autoconf which are not available on just a Mac + Xcode. So I’m happy that others have bit the bullet and make a good HomeBrew build.
What makes HomeBrew so great is that it is based on a fully versioned git/ruby combination, allows for multiple Python versions, allows for binaries through bintray served bottles and has zillions (well, thousands) of installable formulae, all versioned.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/26
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
I was looking for some PDF files that I knew for sure were on my SSD but Spotlight would not find them. Looking for more obvious files I noticed Spotlight was returning hardly any files at all: somehow the index was messed up.
Years ago I also had Spotlight issues; then it would find nothing (now it did find some files) which was solved by a reboot: Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion: reboot helped.
Screenshot 2016-06-29 12.57.34
Now this was right after a reboot, and because Spotlight did find some files I know Spotlight was turned on (no need for mdutil tricks mentioned in After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight).
So I dug a bit deeper and decided to try [WayBack] Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac – Apple Support with these steps:
- Search for something that returns few results (in my case Xyzzy)
- Click
Spotlight Preferences...
- Go to the
Privacy tab
- From the
Finder, drag your disk(s) to the Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations list.
- Remove your disk(s) from that lists using the minus (-) button.
- Wait for re-indexing to complete
That worked like a charm to refresh the index: it started indexing again which took about one hour.
After a few minutes though, I found back the 32pfl7404h_12_dfu_nld.pdf I was looking for.
A second time, it had lost the index to iTunes, and found it back in about 2 hours (as the SSD was much more full).
A third time, this trick from [WayBack/Archive.is] Re-Index Spotlight from the Terminal, Re-Gain Valuable Time for Life [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac worked:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically re-indexes from the root (/) folder.
I find it easier than the above 6 steps (which are also on [WayBack/Archive.is] Make Spotlight Work Again [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac).
–jeroen
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