Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.
Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.
TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “iTerm2 logged passwords …” – Infosec Exchange
iTerm2 logged passwords
If you are running iTerm2 on MacOS with ssh integration (it2ssh or Settings -> General -> Profiles, set to SSH instead of Command) you want to
- Upgrade
- Find
/tmp/framer.txton all systems you generally log into and delete itIf you manage systems with MacOS users, good luck.
[Wayback/Archive] https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_11.changelog affected versions:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18
While migrating from iTunes on one machine to Apple Music on another one, I needed to migrate part of the (disorganised) playlists.
I knew there was a binary ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl file, but that is encoded or encrypted, making it hard to parse.
Luckily there is also ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml which I found via the links below.
The iTunes library xml file is in the same directory as the .itl file. The file is in Apple plist format, and Python’s standard library has a good parser for it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/05
After installing my Apple Silicon MacBook, I found out my machine had gotten named automatically in two different ways:
hostname Jeroens-MBPscutilA few reasons I dislike that:
Finding out how to fix all this was a tedious job as I had to keep refining queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/23
April 2024 this bug was reported: [Wayback/Archive] chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium
That one was fixed, but it looks shortcuts like Command (⌘) + Shift + I still break Chrome when used on a tab pointing to a web-site.
Hopefully the original fix at [Wayback/Archive] Fix crash in sharing menu (5449679) · Gerrit Code Review will help people fixing the standing issue as well.
Related (I plan to file a bug report when the number of my open tabs is closer to zero from the current 200+):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/22
Needed these (in retrospect) simple steps because someone made a form with so much whitespace under the fields on a document that had to be printed for a physical signatures that otherwise too many trees would die.
[Wayback/Archive] Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube.
Via [Wayback/Archive] word 2011 macos unprotect document – Recherche Google.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/08
One of the odd things with Apple computers it that firmware updates are part of the MacOS updates.
From this Dutch thread:
[Wayback/Archive] WheelieNick on Twitter: “@jpluimers Welke firmware precies weet ik niet maar je moet er vanuit gaan als je naar iets wat boven high sierra staat wil gaan dat je altijd eerst naar high siërra moet. Niet van normaal siërra naar big sur bijvoorbeeld. Ik doe trouwens altijd tussenstappen, dus van high siërra naar”
I have bumped into this myself where I skipped an upgrade, then the Mac would not recognise certain media formatted with Apple File System – Wikipedia using intermediate versions of MacOS.
The intermediate versions of MacOS had introduced some firmware changes the newer MacOS version upgrade did not apply.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/13
The conditional formatting feature in Excel is so cool!
If you use FALSE and TRUE expressions to check validity, you can easily make these red and green.
[Wayback/Archive] Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] tbone for asking and [Wayback/Archive] digitxp for answering):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/01
Not long after Figuring out which processes are preventing to eject/unmount my MacOS Time Machine backup USB drive, I wanted to do the opposite: prevent /Volumes/Sandisk1TB from being ejected, as this is the “built-in” MicroSD card I use to store large or infrequently used files on (ISO and other disk images, drivers, hardware and software documentation, stuff to be installed on a fresh machine).
The opposite is straightforward: have a process keep at least one handle open on the Volume as per [Wayback] macos – How do I not accidentally eject external drives? – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback] kLy, [Wayback] dan and [Wayback] gerlos):
If your important external drive is mounted on the following mount point:
/Volumes/important_diskThen you can protect it against an accidental removal by locking this mount point as opened. For this one very simple method consists in opening
Terminaland doing this basic command:$ cd /Volumes/important_diskTo get rid of this locking, you might type within the same
Terminalwindow:$ cd /or you might as well just close this
Terminalwindow ($ exit, or ⌃+D, or ⌘+W).…
An even more elegant way to do it is open a
screensession (just typescreeninTerminal) and open the mount point from that session. This way you can even closeTerminal, since the session will keep running in the background, until you reattach it and stop it (so there’s no need to keep a window open if you don’t need it). I guess you can even create anAutomatoraction for it. For tips onscreensee: [Wayback] kinnetica.com/2011/05/29/using-screen-on-mac-os-x
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/22
Summary of [Wayback/Archive] Print large PDF in Preview over several pages… – Apple Community:
Via [Wayback/Archive] macos print pdf scaled over two pages – Google Search.
–jeroen
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