Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/04
Skip the built-in curl and directly go to the homebrew one:
$ brew update
$ brew upgrade
$ brew install curl --with-nghttp2
Source: How to use curl command with http/2 on MacOS X [WayBack]
via: Using cURL with HTTP/2 on Mac OS X #sysadmin #unix #apple #macos – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
display – How can I move spaces between external monitors in Mavericks? – Ask Different [WayBack]
You can only move spaces which are non-active.
For example, lets say you have spaces 1 and 2. If space 1 is active, you can not move it. You first have to select space 2 then you can move space 1 to a different monitor.
This helped me work around version 8.35 of Microsoft Remote Desktop for OS X breaks second monitor usage [WayBack]:
Sometimes the primary monitor doesn’t have a non-active space any more so you have to create a new one in the top right of Mission Control [WayBack].
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/19
One of the nitpicks in VMware Fusion is that it has no keyboard shortcut for Resume or Suspend. I was trying to add Command-R and Command-S for those but that didn’t work out.
Since the links below seem to work for some other applications, I’ve kept them:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Really interesting stuff: ttystudio. It allows to record an apng or gif of a terminal session (so it should work on headless systems).
Anyone knowing alternatives for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X?
(Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap might cut it on Mac OS X, but not on headless systems so GNOME/byzanz doesn’t cut it either)
Sources:
Handy as well:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07
The most recent versions of Joe don’t even build from stock in OS X any more and there are no direct installers for them.
But there are two most recent older versions that have installers, and a formula recent brew based HomeBrew installation:
After experimenting for a while without brew preferring the first over second, I’ve installed the the third as:
Before making a choice, you might want to consider reading about joe versions in JOE – Joe’s own editor / … /NEWS.md.
Having a background partially in the Linux world, I tried building joe from source on my Mac following the steps at JOE – Joe’s own editor / Discussion / joe-editor-general:Mac binary for 3.3 does not run on OS/X 10.8. It failed because the Mercurial 3.8 branch required automake and autoconf which are not available on just a Mac + Xcode. So I’m happy that others have bit the bullet and make a good HomeBrew build.
What makes HomeBrew so great is that it is based on a fully versioned git/ruby combination, allows for multiple Python versions, allows for binaries through bintray served bottles and has zillions (well, thousands) of installable formulae, all versioned.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
Time permitting, I will research more on this later:
Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local. If you wish you can return /usr/local to its default ownership with: sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local
Reason: the log does look funny, see below.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/26
Various steps showing How to Remove Duplicates & Customize the “Open With” Menu in Mac OS X « Mac Tips
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
I was looking for some PDF files that I knew for sure were on my SSD but Spotlight would not find them. Looking for more obvious files I noticed Spotlight was returning hardly any files at all: somehow the index was messed up.
Years ago I also had Spotlight issues; then it would find nothing (now it did find some files) which was solved by a reboot: Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion: reboot helped.
Screenshot 2016-06-29 12.57.34
Now this was right after a reboot, and because Spotlight did find some files I know Spotlight was turned on (no need for mdutil tricks mentioned in After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight).
So I dug a bit deeper and decided to try [WayBack] Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac – Apple Support with these steps:
Spotlight Preferences...Privacy tabFinder, drag your disk(s) to the Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations list.That worked like a charm to refresh the index: it started indexing again which took about one hour.
After a few minutes though, I found back the 32pfl7404h_12_dfu_nld.pdf I was looking for.
A second time, it had lost the index to iTunes, and found it back in about 2 hours (as the SSD was much more full).
A third time, this trick from [WayBack/Archive.is] Re-Index Spotlight from the Terminal, Re-Gain Valuable Time for Life [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac worked:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically re-indexes from the root (/) folder.
I find it easier than the above 6 steps (which are also on [WayBack/Archive.is] Make Spotlight Work Again [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac).
–jeroen
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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/nullI’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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 