Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/06
This is a reminder to check when the source code was actually released:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/03
Based on [WayBack] macOS – Wikipedia and follow-up of OS X – the versions and their names – as I always forget them and osx – How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? (via: Super User)
Release history (with release dates):
2014-10-16 – OS X 10.10 YosemiteThe graph with Apple Mac OS X / OS X / Mac OS versions cannot do without a graph showing the BSD and Unix inheritance.
Graph origins:
More complete Mac OS X / OS X / Mac OS and Unix timelines are below from macOS version history – Wikipedia.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/30
My Dock kept moving to another monitor every now and then.
This actually seems to be a feature but got me a while to find out what it does at [WayBack] Dock keeps moving between monitors | Official Apple Support Communities:
If you move the mouse to another window and pull it down to very bottom of the screen and hold it there, the dock moves over. To move it back, move the mouse pointer to the screen you want it on and hold the pointer at the very bottom of the screen.
This bites you when an application has features (like tools) at the very bottom of a window.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
For my link archive:
Normally you can’t obtain bootable media of macOS. OS X was a different story, but also you had to pay for those versions. As an owner of a MacBook Pro, it’s slightly unsettling that I …
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hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierra.cdr -size 5200m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/install_build mv /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso mv ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso |
If you want it on USB in stead, the steps are simpler (the link below also links to other OS X and MacOS versions):
If you do not have the full ~5 gigabyte install, then:
Many Mac users who are attempting to download macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store will find that a small 19 MB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” downloads to the /Applicat…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/22
Some interesting links on the “open with” database:
Simple solution to clean the list:
# Clean up LaunchServices to remove duplicates in the “Open With” menu. alias lscleanup="/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user && killall Finder"`
These were by products of what I was really searching for:
Some applications are greyed out, for instance when editing the “Open with…” for the .cap extension (which are pcap network captures that Wireshark can process).
After the steps below, sometimes the menu still does not update for all files of that extension.
This alias helped me to get that to work: alias restart-finder='killall -KILL Finder'.
Links that helped me finding out:
The trick is to toggle “Recommended Applications” into “All Applications”:
Then you can select “Wireshark.app”:
The same happens when you filter on a name (for instance because you know that Wireshark will work fine):
A final thing is that you have to check “Always Open With” so it ends up in the list.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/08
After all these years in the field, I still learned new tricks from [WayBack] 20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS which I have rephrased:
Windows
1) View installed drivers: [WayBack]
driverquery2) Watch Star Wars in ASCII: [WayBack]
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl…
3) Save folder trees to disk:
tree(I had totally forgotten about this, probably because it leaves out a lot of directories and files)…
5) Show your Wi-Fi password [WayBack]
netsh wlan show profile SSID key=clear(replaceSSIDwith your network name; usenets wlan show profileto view the network names)…
7) Check your laptop’s battery health: [WayBack]
powercfg /batteryreportwhich will be in ” and hit Enter to generate the report, then%HOMEPATH%\battery-report.html8) View your Windows license key:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey[WayBack]…
Mac OS X / macOS / however it is called now
1) Change the default screenshot type: [WayBack]
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG(you can also useJP2(for JPEG2000),PNG,TIFFand others)2) Get your Mac to speak to you: use
say3) Add a message to the login screen:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "your new text on the logon window"[WayBack]4) Play Tetris and other classics: start
emacs, then pressEscfollowed byX, type intetris,pong,snakeorsolitaire(to exitemacs, pressCtrl–Xfollowed byCtrl–C). There are [WayBack] more emacs games.5) Get a dictionary definition: run
curl dict://dict.org/d:word(wherewordis what you are after) which uses the [WayBack] dict protocol6) Keep macOS awake: [WayBack]
caffeinateoptionally followed by a-t##parameter where##is the number of seconds to not sleep.7) Show hidden files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE; killall Finderor use thisAppleShowAllFilesscript which I had forgotten about writing in the first place.…
10) Add Spaces to the Dock:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{”tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’; killall Dockrunning the command as many times as you want spaces. To get rid of a space you’ve added, just drag them to the Trash.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] 20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS http://flip.it/SvcQlu – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/28
Interesting tool that I needed one day to figure out how to recover from a certain NTFS partition having become RAW [Archive.is/WayBack] TestDisk, Data Recovery:
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error(such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/07
Interesting read: [WayBack] Setting Up a New Mac: Should You Migrate or Do a Clean Installation? | The Mac Security Blog
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/13
When all else fails: [WayBack] How to start up your Mac in Internet Recovery Mode.
Command-Option-R is one of the plethora of keyboard tricks you can use during boot:
Some Mac features are available by holding down certain keys during startup.
[WayBack] Startup key combinations for Mac – Apple Support
Hold during startup Description Shift ⇧ Start up in Safe Mode. Option ⌥ Start up to Startup Manager. C Start up from a bootable CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive (such as OS X install media). D Start up to either Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics, depending on which Mac you’re using. Option-D Start up to either Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics over the Internet. N Start up from a compatible NetBoot server. Option-N Start up from a NetBoot server using the default boot image. Command (⌘)-R Start up from OS X Recovery. Command-Option-R Start up from OS X Recovery over the Internet. Command-Option-P-R Reset NVRAM. Release the keys after you hear the startup sound again. Command-S Start up in single-user mode. T Start up in target disk mode. X Start up from an OS X startup volume when the Mac would otherwise start up from a non-OS X startup volume. Command-V Start up in verbose mode. Eject (⏏), F12, mouse button, or trackpad button Eject removable media, such as an optical disc.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/04
[WayBack] Early version of Apple II Logo. · PDP-10/its-vault@4145dea · GitHub:
Early version of Apple II Logo.
Written by: - Stephen L. Hain - Patrick G. Sobalvarro - Leigh L. Klotz
Brows the source files at [WayBack] its-vault/files/aplogo at master · PDP-10/its-vault · GitHub.
Via Lars Brinkhoff – Google+ commenting at [WayBack] This week, Logo on the 6502, in honour of Seymour Papert who died this week. He did a lot more, but Logo is a lasting and perhaps most visible contribut… – mos6502 – Google+.
Instructions at [WayBack] its-vault/usage.doc at master · PDP-10/its-vault · GitHub
–jeroen
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