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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:
- joe-3.7-0.pkg – rudix-snowleopard – JOE – Rudix: The hassle-free way to get Unix programs on Mac OS X – Google Project Hosting.
- PROJECT DETAIL for Joe’s Own Editor.
- Homebrew Formulas – Joe.
After experimenting for a while without brew preferring the first over second, I’ve installed the the third as:
- The first actually installs version 3.6, but has the syntax highlighting files installed in the correct place, so you get syntax highlighting.
- The second does install version 3.7, but since the syntax highlighting files are in the wrong place: you get no syntax highlighting.
- The brew formula has an up to date joe version 4.0 and installs the syntax highlighting in the right place: you get syntax highlighting.
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
Posted in Apple, 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 | Leave a Comment »
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:
- Search for something that returns few results (in my case Xyzzy)
- Click
Spotlight Preferences...
- Go to the
Privacy tab
- From the
Finder, drag your disk(s) to the Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations list.
- Remove your disk(s) from that lists using the minus (-) button.
- Wait for re-indexing to complete
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/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 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]
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