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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/14
Adobe marketing scam
I don’t want Acrobat/Adobe Reader on my Mac. Period.
But Preview will show some PDF files as “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9, or later.” or “For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later.”
This is some Adobe marketing scam where they generate a PDF file actually as a portfolio of PDF files having the first PDF being “marketing” message.
So I needed the pdf-tools on my Mac for which many sites suggest to use brew install pdf-tools. That worked not so well:
$ brew install pdf-tools
Error: No available formula with the name "pdf-tools"
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
This similarly named formula was found:
mupdf-tools
To install it, run:
brew install mupdf-tools
==> Searching taps...
This formula was found in a tap:
homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools
To install it, run:
brew install homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools
Searching for “Error: No available formula with the name” “pdf-tools” didn’t return useful results but looking for brew “pdf-tools” gone revealed pdf-tools: move to homebrew/emacs · wingyplus/homebrew@6e73af9 indicating the command should indeed be brew install homebrew/emacs/pdf-tools however that also ended up failing, in fact with multiple errors:
==> make server/epdfinfo
Error: No available formula with the name "homebrew/dupes/tcl-tk"
Please tap it and then try again: brew tap homebrew/dupes
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
After doing abrew tap homebrew/dupes it finally worked.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/30
Thanks David Berneda for sharing this a while ago:
Cool little trick to show all the preset variables for your GCC/Clang compiler:
clang -E -dM - < /dev/null
I’ve always wondered how to get these. Some are kind of surprising, especially since there are 320 of them, at least on my system.
On my system (Mavericks, I wish the sw_vers console tool would tell that): 170 lines.
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Posted in Apple, C, C++, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
If you see the error below when running brew update, then you bumped in a small brew glitch [WayBack]. The solution is usually to just run brew update again [WayBack] (thanks Ashley Willis [WayBack]) and it will likely run fine:
$ brew update
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
Error: update-report should not be called directly!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
A while ago, testssl.sh [WayBack] needed Darwin binaries (for OS X): Supply Darwin binaries + install documentation · Issue #127 · drwetter/testssl.sh [WayBack]
So I created the small Bourne shell (sh) script below to deliver them.
It allows me to update these gists:
The build script itself is in a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/f4de3937630b87753133.git [WayBack]
It helped me to contribute to these testssl.sh issues:
Not all of these binaries are in https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/tree/master/bin [WayBack] as it makes the testssl.sh repository too bloated. Some (including non-OSX builds made by others) are here:
Eventually the script might get merged into https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/blob/master/utils/make-openssl.sh [WayBack] as there is a Darwin switch in this commit: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/commit/6efc3e90f52e5926b0853d3b2fb221b631dcf452 [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15
The culprit is usually the mds [WayBack] process (metadata server).
Simple command-line solution:
sudo killall mds
A more convoluted way with the Activity Monitor is in the link below.
–jeroen
via: Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues [WayBack]
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
Posted in //e, 6502, 6502 Assembly, Apple, Apple ][, Assembly Language, Development, History, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
One day I’m going to need this: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
So I’m glad WinUSB (which hadn’t been maintained for a long time) got forked on github by slaka.
Since my day-to-day unix-like system is OS X, I’d love a good working solution there too which means I probably need to investigate a bit along these lines:
- Using diskpart in a Windows VM (which is kind of backwards):
- Using Disk Utility and UEFI (only works for Windows 8 and up):
- Using Boot Camp Assistant and a modified Info.plist (which for El Capitan needs some extra work):
–jeroen
via: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork WebUpd8 – Google+ / DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/06
via: Lesson Learned – I Can’t Get My Git Repo Clean! | DrupalEasy
One file kept getting added to the git modified list: service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas.
It was part of a repository that had been migrated from SVN (more on that in a future blog post) and along the way been renamed in directory service/src/main from MySOAPdefinition.pas to MySoapDefinition.pas. SVN (and TortoiseSVN) don’t object to this. But git does.
You’d see this on the command-line:
>git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
>git add service\src\main\MySoapDefinition.pas
>git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: service/src/main/MySOAPdefinition.pas
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
Basically the add would do nothing.
On Windows, this is how to get around this:
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Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, git, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Windows, Windows 7 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/05
Not on the terminal, but only in SourceTree I got this error (full text below):
Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC
Well, the Xcode binaries were here:
$ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
On Mavericks, perl is this version:
$ perl --version | grep -w for
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
and git is this:
$ git --version
git version 1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)
Steps for fixing are at these blog entries:
All these solutions point you to change the system Perl installation, but since on my system it failed only on SourceTree, but from the terminal, I wanted to fix SourceTree.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/01
DNS and Mac OS X are a bit of a tricky situation as OS X can use more than the default DNS servers: its resolve can do a multi-client DNS search.
The default DNS servers can be listed like this:
scutil --dns | grep 'nameserver\[[0-9]*\]' | sort | uniq
The effective DNS server like this:
dig whoami.akamai.net | grep "^;; SERVER" | cut -c 12-
Sometimes you want to know if you have manually configured DNS servers, or only DHCP assigned ones. This statement shows that for my Wi-Fi network-service:
networksetup -getdnsservers Wi-Fi
Because of the multi-client setup, you need to run this for all network-services configured on your OS X installation. You can get the list like this:
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
I’ve not yet found a way to list only active services, as the networksetup documentation indicates the -listnetworkserviceorder option will mark inactive ones with (*), but it reality does so only for disabled ones. So this does not work:
networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder
I might one day dig into combining the output of ifconfig with networksetup to figure out a shell based solution to this question.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 