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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Office 2011 for Mac update pesky Window pops up every 10 seconds
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27
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:
- [WayBack] Get-PowerShellBlog: Why pwsh Was Chosen For PowerShell Core
- [WayBack] pwsh rename motivation by the PowerShell Core committee · Issue #4214 · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub
- [WayBack] Side-by-Side execution · Issue #4214 · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub
- [WayBack] Setting false rename assumptions straight · Issue #4214 · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub
- [WayBack] Improve experience for side-by-side versions of PowerShell · Issue #4199 · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub
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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:
- [WayBack] Enable Time Machine to backup an SD Card? – Ask Different
- [WayBack] macos – Where does Time Machine store its settings? – Ask Different
- [WayBack] macos – On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup? – Ask Different
- Thread with ome
tmutiltricks to see if something went wrong; if they don’t help, then you can always make a free Genius Bar appointment [WayBack] Will Time Machine backup my SD card? | Official Apple Support Communities
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macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
This worked for me as suddenly – after upgrading to Sierra – the App Store was all Dutch where previously it was English:
After I fought with the issue for a few hours, I found the solution.
- Open Mac App Store and log out of the account.
- Restart your Mac.
- Log in to the account again.
Thanks [WayBack] Blaszard for the above answer at [WayBack] macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
Note that this syncs the language in the App Store with the one you’ve set on the OS X level; for changing that, see [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the language your Mac uses
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macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
For me the easiest is on a sudo terminal (so I can omit the sudo part in the below commands), but if you’d do it “rather safe then sorry”, you can go from the fine-grained individual backup level:
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss
step by step
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name
all the way back to
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb
Incidentally, the tmutil documentation is now regarded as legacy (I’m not sure why) so before it goes away, I’ve archived it:
[Archive.is] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tmutil.8.html
It’s not at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html as for instance [WayBack] man tmutil … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ referred to a few years back.
Anyway:
- A time machine backs up at most 52 weeks; this article shows some calculations on how much disk space you might need for it: [WayBack] Time machine compression ratio | Official Apple Support Communities
- There is a cool
enablelocalfeature that Kristian Köhntopp refers to that I didn’t know about yet:
“enablelocalTurn on local Time Machine snapshots. Requires root privileges.
disablelocal
Turn off local Time Machine snapshots and trigger automatic cleanup of accumulated local snapshot data. Requires root privileges.”
- Kristian got it via [WayBack] Mac Stuff » Creating local snapshots in Time Machine in Lion 10.7
–jeroen
–jeroen
via [WayBack] macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
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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: [WayBack] macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different
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Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+Hackintosh Guide: GA-X99P-SLI | Intel 6950X | GTX 980ti
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/05
If I ever want to create a GPU grade or server grade Mac system: [WayBack] Hackintosh Guide: GA-X99P-SLI | Intel 6950X | GTX 980ti New Hackintosh is complete. If you want to recreate my setup, here’s the guide I wrote up.… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+
It’s nicely wrapped up: koush/EFI-X99: Hackintosh Guide: Gigabyte X99P-SLI, Intel 6950X, GeForce GTX 980ti
(Apple still sells Mac OS X Server, but no server grade hardware any more)
Note there are others having an X99 hackintosh.
More details:
- [WayBack] New Hackintosh rig – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+
- [WayBack] koush on Twitter: “People keep asking, so here’s specs (Gigabyte X99P-SLI motherboard not shown): https://t.co/j7phzBwrIm”
- [Archive.is] build picture
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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: [WayBack] command line – Linux’ ps f (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different
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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?
[WayBack] macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different
One way is to use Automator scripts, but: scripting…
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unxz on Mac OS X requires the xz formula from homebrew
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/30
Most sites explaining how to decompress an xz file mention you should use unxz from the xz utils toolbox.
Running unzx on Msc OS X requires the xz formula from homebrew:
$ brew install xz ==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/xz-5.2.2.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Pouring xz-5.2.2.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/xz/5.2.2: 91 files, 1.4M
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