Archive for the ‘MacMini’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/27
[WayBack ] I am on a Mac that is bound to an AD Domain. The AD Domain has a 90 days password expiration policy. When will my password expire? $ cat bin/is-passwor… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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#! /bin/bash —
validFor=$(( 90 * 86400 ))
domainPrefix='/Active Directory/DOMAIN/doma.in/"
lastPW=$(dscl "/$domainPrefix" -read /Users/$USER | awk '/SMBPasswordLastSet/ { print $NF }')
unixPW=$(($lastPW / 10000000 – 11644473600 + $validFor))
expireDate=$(date -r $unixPW)
echo "Password expires $expireDate"
Script copied to [WayBack ] Kristian Köhntopp: I am on a Mac that is bound to an AD Domain. The AD Domain has a 90 days password expiration policy. When will my password expire? · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack ] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
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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:
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
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11
Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window
Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBack ] Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives
–jeroen
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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
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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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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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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: [WayBack ] macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different
–jeroen
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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: [WayBack ] command line – Linux’ ps f (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different
–jeroen
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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?
[WayBack ] macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different
One way is to use Automator scripts, but: scripting…
–jeroen
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