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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/12
You can use this package to install OS X on an empty partition, but perhaps more interestingly, you can also use it to upgrade existing OS X installations to a newer version of the OS X. There are many tools and workflows that support the installation of Apple packages; you can use these together with an OS X installation package to upgrade machines to the latest version of OS X.This is especially interesting when used with tools like Munki — you can automate the upgrade of a group of machines while still preserving user data, or offer an upgrade as a “Self-Service”-type option where a user can initiate an OS X upgrade themselves without needing to have administrative rights.
I will probably need this one day.
Source: munki/createOSXinstallPkg: Tools for packaging OS X installers
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/02
A while ago I had a “fzsftp could not be started” error using FileZilla on Mac OS X.
From the search results, it wasn’t exactly clear what I did wrong, as the “Show Package Contents” context menu showed “…/Contents/MacOS/fzsftp”
Then I remembered I got a bit confused with all the FileZilla updates coming out and renaming it to contain a version number (I do that with many applications so I can keep old versions allowing me to quickly revert to an older version if there are version compatibilities).
Renaming FileZilla.3.16.x.app back to FileZilla.app solved the issue: apparently FileZilla has a hardcoded dependency on exactly that name. I got there because of the hint about spaces in directories from this thread: fzsftp could not be started – FileZilla Forums
This was before Mac OS X El Capitan; with that version you have to set permissions correctly as well: fzsftp could not be started – Kruyswijk-ICT BV
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
In addition to my post about Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel, restarting a hanging Tunnelblick is even easier:
killall Tunnelblick
open -a Tunnelblick
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, bash, Development, 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, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/30
Some links that helped me getting FTDI USB serial communication to Raspberry Pi systems going:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Communications Development, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, iMac, Legacy Ports: COM, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Raspberry Pi, USB | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/29
Every now and then, Google Drive on Mac OS X gets confused and starts showing the spinning wheel when hovering over the menu bar icon similar to for instance DropBox does every once in a while.
This is how to terminate and restart Google Drive from the terminal (no need for su):
killall -v -SIGKILL Google\ Drive
open -a Google\ Drive
Alternatively you can start Google Drive using this:
/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive &
I found this executable through osx – Find all executable files within a folder in terminal – Ask Different
Note that this won’t kill Google Drive as it sends the TERM signal (SIGTERM):
killall -v Google\ Drive
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/20
Explains how to find out top 10 files and directories under Unix / Linux using sort and du command in human-readable format.
Interesting, especially
alias 'ducks=du -cks * | sort -rn | head'
Source: How Do I Find The Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On a Linux / UNIX / BSD?
via: Joe C. Hecht and nixCraft.
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow. During startup, it wasn’t using much memory, but during editing it did: less than 2 gigabyte out of 8 gigabyte free memory left.
The hard-disk was like 30% full, there wasn’t much in the cache, few processes were auto-starting and the recycle bin was almost empty.
So my first thought was adding more RAM (which is easy): duplicating it to 16 megabyte was easy and not expensive when you look at the Amazon prices for it.
After that it was faster, but not really fast: especially the loading was still slow (less slow than before, but still taking minutes).
Then I scanned for permission issues and there were quite a few as the machine had been getting updates since 2010. So I repaired the permissions using disk utility.
Now iMovie loaded much faster as well: in under a minute.
So out of 17 Ways to Speed Up Mac OS X Lion – ChrisWrites.com, only 2 steps were really needed so far.
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 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 2017/02/20
Source: Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different [WayBack]:
This fix from Reddit worked perfectly for me!!
http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/2jtikj/finder_not_responding_new_yosemite_install/ [WayBack]
You can most likely fix the issue by clearing out Finder’s saved state, caches, and/or settings.
Use Spotlight (the search icon in the far right of the menu bar) to find and open the “Terminal” application. Triple-click the following line in order to copy and paste it into Terminal’s window:
rm -fR ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder; killall Finder
If it still doesn’t work, try this one:
mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder{,.backup}.plist; killall Finder
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/10
These links:
Made me add this to my ~/.bash_profile:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/09
Brilliant Date format converter from dates in Text (almost any format) or timestamp numbers in Unix, Mac, Filetime or Microsoft (which is the same as Delphi TDateTime) format to any of these formats:
Text Date:
Date in human-readable text |
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 4:05:39pm |
RFC 822:
RFC 822 formatted date |
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:05:39 +0000 |
ISO 8601:
ISO 8601 formatted date |
2016-03-23T16:05:39+00:00 |
UNIX Timestamp:
seconds since Jan 1 1970 |
1458749139 |
Mac Timestamp:
seconds since Jan 1 1904 |
3541593939 |
Microsoft Timestamp:
days since Dec 31 1899 |
42452.670590278 |
FILETIME:
100-nanoseconds since Jan 1 1601 |
131032227390000000
01D1851D:D7B58B80 |
Source: Date format converter
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, .NET, Apple, Delphi, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development | 1 Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 