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Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29

One day I’m going to need this: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

So I’m glad WinUSB (which hadn’t been maintained for a long time) got forked on github by slaka.

Since my day-to-day unix-like system is OS X, I’d love a good working solution there too which means I probably need to investigate a bit along these lines:

–jeroen

via: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork WebUpd8 – Google+  / DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

 

 

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case insensitive files systems and git – Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git Repo Clean! | DrupalEasy

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/06

via: Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git Repo Clean! | DrupalEasy

One file kept getting added to the git modified list: service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas.

It was part of a repository that had been migrated from SVN (more on that in a future blog post) and along the way been renamed in directory service/src/main from MySOAPdefinition.pas to MySoapDefinition.pas. SVN (and TortoiseSVN) don’t object to this. But git does.

You’d see this on the command-line:

>git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

>git add service\src\main\MySoapDefinition.pas

>git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Basically the add would do nothing.

On Windows, this is how to get around this:

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Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, git, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Windows, Windows 7 | 1 Comment »

git svn broken on Mac OS X under SourceTree but not from the terminal: how to fix it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/05

Not on the terminal, but only in SourceTree I got this error (full text below):

Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC

Well, the Xcode binaries were here:

 $ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

On Mavericks, perl is this version:

$ perl --version | grep -w for
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

and git is this:

$ git --version
git version 1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)

Steps for fixing are at these blog entries:

All these solutions point you to change the system Perl installation, but since on my system it failed only on SourceTree, but from the terminal, I wanted to fix SourceTree.

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Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN | 4 Comments »

Mac OS X: finding the DNS servers available

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/01

DNS and Mac OS X are a bit of a tricky situation as OS X can use more than the default DNS servers: its resolve can do a multi-client DNS search.

The default DNS servers can be listed like this:

scutil --dns | grep 'nameserver\[[0-9]*\]' | sort | uniq

The effective DNS server like this:

dig whoami.akamai.net | grep "^;; SERVER" | cut -c 12-

Sometimes you want to know if you have manually configured DNS servers, or only DHCP assigned ones. This statement shows that for my Wi-Fi network-service:

networksetup -getdnsservers Wi-Fi

Because of the multi-client setup, you need to run this for all network-services configured on your OS X installation. You can get the list like this:

networksetup -listallnetworkservices

I’ve not yet found a way to list only active services, as the networksetup documentation indicates the -listnetworkserviceorder option will mark inactive ones with (*), but it reality does so only for disabled ones. So this does not work:

networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder

I might one day dig into combining the output of ifconfig with networksetup to figure out a shell based solution to this question.

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Woof – simply exchange files – one-time sharing of a file over http

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/22

Woof is a small simple stupid webserver that can easily be invoked on a single file. Your partner can access the file with tools he trusts (e.g. wget). No need to enter passwords on keyboards where you don’t know about keyboard sniffers, no need to start a huge lot of infrastructure, just do a

$ woof filenameand

tell the recipient the URL woof spits out. When he got that file, woof will quit and everything is done.And when someone wants to send you a file, woof has a switch to offer itself, so he can get woof and offer a file to you. …

Woof needs Python on a unix’ish operating system. Some people have used it successfully on Windows within the cygwin environment.

Source: Woof – simply exchange files

Works from homebrew on OS X.

via: Web Offer One File – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

Source: Web Offer One File

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Home brew / homebrew, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User | Leave a Comment »

network – How can I release and renew my DHCP lease from Terminal? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/07

Via the answer below I created the renew alias. I already had the first two aliases.

alias route-and-ipaddresses="netstat -nr | grep 'Internet\|Gateway\|default' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6' && echo more detailed info through ifconfig and netstat -nr"

alias whatismyip="curl http://whatismyip.akamai.com && echo"

alias renew_dhcp="sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP && echo waiting 10 seconds for DHCP lease to be obtained && sleep 10 && route-and-ipaddresses && whatismyip"

–jeroen

via: network – How can I release and renew my DHCP lease from Terminal? – Ask Different.

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 »

domain name system – How to test DNS glue record? – Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/26

Thanks Adrian W for providing the below example in your answer about obtaining GLUE record information for a domain.

It is an excellent showcase for the $IFS Internal Field Separator available in any nx shell.

In this case it is used to get the TLD (top-level domain) from the domain name specified at the command-line.

After that, it obtains the name servers for that TLD, and queries the glue records there, both using dig.

Here is a little shell script which implements Alnitak’s answer:

#!/bin/sh
S=${IFS}
IFS=.
for P in $1; do
  TLD=${P}
done
IFS=${S}

echo "TLD: ${TLD}"
DNSLIST=$(dig +short ${TLD}. NS)
for DNS in ${DNSLIST}; do
  echo "Checking ${DNS}"
  dig +norec +nocomments +noquestion +nostats +nocmd @${DNS} $1 NS
done

Pass the name of the domain as parameter:

./checkgluerecords.sh example.org

–jeroen

via domain name system – How to test DNS glue record? – Server Fault.

Posted in *nix, Apple, bash, Development, DNS, 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, openSuSE, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X Time Machine – Stuck on “Preparing Backup”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/25

For one of my USB backup drives, Time Machine was stuck showing “Preparing Backup”.

tmutil (which has a lot of undocumented parameters) helped me out.

tmutil status would not show any change for hours either:

retinambpro1tb:~ root# tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2015-05-04 19:27:31 +0000";
    DestinationID = "01AE12C7-1D3E-469E-BE7E-32DA30F0030E";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Elements2TB1";
    Percent = "-1";
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
}
...
retinambpro1tb:~ root# tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2015-05-04 21:13:28 +0000";
    DestinationID = "01AE12C7-1D3E-469E-BE7E-32DA30F0030E";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Elements2TB1";
    Percent = "-1";
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
}

So I:

  1. removed the .inProgress file found by ls -al /Volumes/Elements2TB1/Backups.backupdb/`scutil --get ComputerName`/*.inProgress
  2. rebooted with the USB drive attached
  3. waited for spotlight to complete
  4. manually started a backup
  5. verified it made progress using tmutil (you need to run that as root, for instance with sudo su -)

And it indeed made progress and finished:

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Posted in *nix, Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

Tools that Isotopp installed on his Mac…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/01

IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will man als UNIX Hacker zuerst an Tools installieren?«

Source: IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will… by Kristian Köhntopp.

Since G+ is very bad at searching, I created this summary of the tools; read the full G+ post (Google Translate is quite OK), including comments on why.

Edit: 20160402 – I’m posting regular updates based on the comments for that G+ post. I’ve changed or added German iTunes store links to US-English ones.

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Posted in Apple, Audacity, Audio, Fusion, Hardware, Keybase, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Media, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User, Security, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware | Leave a Comment »

OpenVPN – How to connect to Access Server from a Mac – basically says use Tunnelblick

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/18

Nice summary for just saying “Use Tunnelblick

This howto article explains how to obtain and setup a Mac openvpn client to connect to the OpenVPN Access Server.

Source: How to connect to Access Server from a Mac

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, 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, OpenVPN, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »