Archive for the ‘MacBook-Pro’ Category
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:
- removed the .inProgress file found by
ls -al /Volumes/Elements2TB1/Backups.backupdb/`scutil --get ComputerName`/*.inProgress
- rebooted with the USB drive attached
- waited for spotlight to complete
- manually started a backup
- 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 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 »
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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/07
Last friday I updated the examples at *nix networking – lsof: How to tell what process has a specific port open on Linux (via: Server Fault) as I needed to document some of the machines around here (so it becomes easier replacing them).
I also added some links to background information and (when I get to using it: OS X still goes without) a good iproute2 starter page.
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Communications Development, Cygwin, Development, Internet protocol suite, Linux, 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, TCP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/29
Reloop has posted the below for DJ controlers (like Contour IE, Jockey 3 ME and Digital Jockey 2 ME), but it also applies to their mixers, for instance my Reloop RMX-40 USB – Reloop (but not limited to Reloop audio equipment) in combination with either of my:
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
All these machines have USB 3.0 ports. But the workarounds below work:
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Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/26
It’s obvious if you have seen this once, but it wasn’t clear to me how to play only individual songs from a playlist. Luckily my search got this step by step guide as the first hit:
- Create the playlist.
- Uncheck all of the check boxes in the playlist (In iTunes for Windows, ctrl click one of the check marks to uncheck all of the checkboxes at once)
- Now double click (or select and press spacebar) a song to play it. It will stop when finished because there is no other song checked to be played next.
- If you want to change back to normal sequential play, ctrl click one of the check marks again to change all of the checkboxes back to the checked status.
The tip works for both Mac and Windows.
I needed this as part of a pub-quiz so I could finish the questions and answers before moving on to the next track in the playlist.
Thanks hiker1251!
–jeroen
via: Tip: How to play a playlist one song at a time … | Apple Support Communities.
Posted in Apple, iTunes, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/27
Even after the SpeedTouch password algorithms were disclosed 2008, ISPs keep using weak algorithms to generate their default WPA/WPA2 passwords in their routers:
A short while ago, blasty published code to generate the WPA2 passwords for UPC routers. Even though Ziggo now owns UPC, a lot of this UPC equipment is still in use. I guess it won’t be for long that similar code for Ziggo routers will be published too.
The code at https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c is easy to download, build and run on a Mac OS X machine even when you don’t have Xcode installed (use the “xcode-select –install” trick):
wget https://haxx.in/upc_keys.c
gcc -O2 -o upc_keys upc_keys.c -lcrypto
./upc_keys UPC0053284 5
./upc_keys UPC0053284 24
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, C, Development, gcc, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/13
Many sites giving your public IP address return a web page with a bloat of html. From the command-line, you are usually only interested in the IP-address itself. Few services return exactly that.
Below are command-line examples to provide the public IP address mostly from a *nix perspective. Usually you can get similar commands to work with Windows binaries for wget and Windows binaries for curl.
In the end, I’ve opted for commands in this format, as I think akamai will last longer than the other sites (but does not include an end-of-line in the http result hence the echo on Mac/*nix):
I’ve not tried aria2 yet, but might provide commands for that in the future.
These are the Linux permutations for akamai:
curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo && curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
The last two are convenient when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on “the outside”.
You can replace curl with wget -q -O – (which outputs to stdout) for each command. You can even ommit the http:// (as that is the default protocol for both curl and wget).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/28
Unlike SourceTree for Windows, SourceTree for Mac still doesn’t automagically detect Beyond Compare even though that has been available for Mac OS X since : [SRCTREE-2092] Add built-in support for Beyond Compare version 4 – Atlassian JIRA.
Even modifying my ~/.gitconfig didn’t work, but manual configuration did. Here are the steps:
- Start the UI version of Beyond Compare
- Select the Beyond Compare menu, install the command-line tools
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Posted in Apple, Beyond Compare, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Source Code Management, SourceTree | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/18
Interesting:
For codesign verification:
find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec codesign --verify --verbose {} \;
For system policy assessment:
find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec spctl --assess --verbose {} \;
–jeroen
Source: How to verify app signatures in OS X | MacIssues
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 