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Archive for the ‘MacMini’ Category

PowerShell on Mac OS X and other non-Windows systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/17

I wasn’t expecting it to be so easy to install PowerShell on Mac OS X:

brew install Caskroom/cask/powershell

In the background it executes this script: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/powershell.rb. which indirectly goes through the URL template https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v#{version}/powershell-#{version}.pkg.

On other non-Windows systems, you have to go through GitHub yourself: https://github.com/powershell/PowerShell. The PowerShell team at Microsoft has many more repositories including the Win32-OpenSSH port which you can find through https://github.com/PowerShell.

At the time of writing, PowerShell was available for these platforms:

Platform Downloads How to Install
Windows 10 / Server 2016 (x64) .msi Instructions
Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 (x64) .msi Instructions
Windows 7 (x64) .msi Instructions
Windows 7 (x86) .msi Instructions
Ubuntu 16.04 .deb Instructions
Ubuntu 14.04 .deb Instructions
CentOS 7 .rpm Instructions
OpenSUSE 42.1 .rpm Instructions
Arch Linux Instructions
Many Linux distributions .AppImage Instructions
macOS 10.11 .pkg Instructions
Docker Instructions

The first version I installed on Mac OS X was this: ==> Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.17/powershell-6.0.0-alpha.17.pkg

By now I really hope it is out of Alpha state.

–jeroen

via:

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Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11

  1. Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
  2. Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
  3. Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window

Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBackStop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives

–jeroen

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Office 2011 for Mac update pesky Window pops up every 10 seconds

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27

From the “I hate my users” department:

  • This dialog pops up every 10 seconds
  • The Office 2011 for Mac update requires non-Office apps to quit as well

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Development, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, Office, Office 2011 for Mac, Power User, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux) | Leave a Comment »

Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26

I forgot to blog about this before, but 2 months ago PowerShell core came available: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported! | PowerShell Team Blog.

[WayBack] Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs is easy (one way is through homebrew:

$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew cask install powershell

If you already installed a beta, then the steps are these:

$ brew update
$ brew cask reinstall powershell

Note that after installation, it is known as pwsh (at least one of the betas named it powershell) to set PowerShell Core apart from PowerShell*:

$ pwsh --version
PowerShell v6.0.2

Via: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

*pwsh versus powershell

There has been quite a discussion on the PowerShell Core repository on the rename, but I think it is for a good reason.

Too bad that during part of the beta, the old name powershell was used, but beta-time means things break every now and then.

PowerShell Core is sufficiently different from prior PowerShell versions to warrant a name change. This also makes it a lot easier to use them side-by-side.

Many other names (like posh, pcsh or psh) were considered, usually because of naming conflicts with existing tools (like posh) or easy confusion with existing shells (like pcsh and csh). A benefit on Linux/macOS is that it now ends with sh like virtually all other shells.

More background information is at:

–jeroen

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Reminder to self if I want to include an SD card in a Time Machine backup

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26

It should be all automagic as soon as I format an SD card as journaled HFS, but in case it isn’t, here are some links:

–jeroen

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macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19

With system account starting with underscore:

dscl . list /Users

Without underscore, so only regular accounts:

dscl . list /Users | grep -v ^_.*

Source: [WayBackmacos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different

–jeroen

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command line – Linux’ `ps f` (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/14

There still is no ps xf on Mac OS X.

You need brew install pstree for that. Then you can excute pstree which gives you a treeview of the processes running.

via: [WayBackcommand line – Linux’ ps f (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different

–jeroen

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macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/14

I’m still amazed this is not in stock Mac OS X:

In Finder > Select a folder > Right click, we get a popup with an option to create a new folder:Is there a way to add menu item New Textfile for adding a new text file?

[WayBackmacos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different

One way is to use Automator scripts, but: scripting…

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Automator scripts, Development, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: Sort out empty (zero size) Icon? files in Google Drive folder on OS X and Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

It looks like when syncing folders between Mac OS X (MacOS X?) and Windows, many directories get empty Icon? files have a size of 0 bytes.

None of these directories had custom icons, so I’m inclined to remove them all from the Google Drive folder:

find . -name 'Icon*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

as [WayBackDidier Trosset answered at [WayBackHow to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow

Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Google, GoogleDrive, iMac, 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 »

Duplicate File Finder for files & folders on the Mac App Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01

Free and – unlike the also free [WayBackdupeGuru – finds duplicate files – hasn’t crashed on my system yet or fails to add folders:

Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Duplicate File Finder for files & folders. Download Duplicate File Finder for files & folders for Mac OS X 10.9 or later and enjoy it on your Mac.

[WayBackDuplicate File Finder for files & folders on the Mac App Store

–jeroen

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