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Setting the SMB/Netbios name of your Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/30

Even after changing the name of your Mac, from the Windows side it still looks like this:


C:\Users\developer>net view
Server Name Remark
——————————————————————————-
\\MACBOOKPRO-4C7F Jeroen's MacBook Pro
The command completed successfully.

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RetinaMacBookPro-SMB-not-set.txt

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I knew I had solved this in the past, as the MacBook Air showed up correctly in the list:


C:\Users\developer>net view
Server Name Remark
——————————————————————————-
\\MACBOOKPRO-4C7F Jeroen's MacBook Pro
\\MBAIR133JWP MBAIR133JWP
The command completed successfully.

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MacBook-Air-SMB-name-set.txt

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The trick is that there are 2 names for your Mac: the name for the Apple side of things, and the name for the Windows side of things. For the latter you’d think it would be named SMB or NetBIOS. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

OS X Finder: viewing hidden paths

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/27

One of the most frustrating things on a Mac is that the OS X Finder does not allow you to browse all paths.

Unlike Windows the Windows Explorer, where it is fairly easy to switch a preference for enabling/disabling showing the hidden files and folders, there is no option in the Preferences. There is a command-line trick (see below) to enable/disable showing hidden files and folders.

Luckily, both the Windows Explorer and the Mac OS X Finder allow you to specify the full folder path to browse, where you can enter a path that otherwise would (partially) be invisible.

  • Windows Explorer: just enter a full path in the address bar.
  • Mac OS X Finder: press Shift-Command-G (or Menu -> Go -> Go to Folder...), then enter the full path.

An alternative for Mac OS X is the payed (but great tool) Path Finder which is one of the best Finder replacements I know.

Command-line trick to enable/disable Mac OS X Finder hidden folder behaviour

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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Liz Kimber: My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

Liz Kimber hits the nail on the head:

My first computer, is responsible for who i am today.

That’s one of the reaons I bought both an Applle //e and //c last summer (:

–jeroen

via: Alen Cox’ computer history reshare – Google+.

Posted in //e, About, Apple, Apple ][, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format (via: Raam Dev)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/18

Mac OS X has md5, but no md5sum.

I agree with Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format that the second way of emulating md5 is better than the first one.

So here it is:


#!/bin/bash
/sbin/md5 -r "$@"

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md5sum.bash

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–jeroen

via: Mac OS X: Replicating md5sum Output Format – Raam Dev

Posted in Apple, bash, Development, Hashing, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, md5, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Scripting, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

NotePad++: Text Editor which shows \r\n (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/26

I hadn’t monitored Notepad++ in a very long time, so I was glad that User Thomas Owens mentioned that it can show you the CR and LF codes:

With Notepad++, you can show end-of-line characters. It shows CR and LF, instead of “\r” and “\n”, but it gets the point across. […]

To use Notepad++ for this,

  1. open the View menu, open the Show Symbols slide out, and
  2. select either “Show all characters” or “Show end-of-line characters”.

I needed this because many development environments get confused when you have text files using a mix of line-break kinds (in my case LF, CR and CRLF).

–jeroen

via Text Editor which shows \r\n? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in *nix, Apple, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SuSE Linux, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Apple Mac LC475 fun: New computer time. Well not exactly “new”. I needed to read/write some old…

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/18

Interesting talks about Apple Macintosh (now Mac) LC475, 800K floppies, System 7.6/7.7, SCSI, AppleTalk, Serial, Ethernet, hardware upgrades, etc.

New computer time. Well not exactly “new”. I needed to read/write some old….

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Mac OS X GeekTool: like Windows BgInfo on steroids.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12

A long time fan of BgInfo on Windows, I was looking for a Mac OS X replacement.

And I found one: GeekTool is on steroids compared to BgInfo (:

Much more than I needed (plenty of add-on scripts too), but more than enough to get some simple text displayed.

–jeroen

via: windows – Tool to put text on desktop wallpaper – Super User.

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

MRR Software: NameChanger

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/22

NameChanger cool visual tool to do pattern based mass-renames on your Mac.

Needs OS X 10.6 or better (Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks), though previous versions that are still available support all the way back until 10.3 (Panther).

–jeroen

via: MRR Software.

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

(Retina) MacBook tethering: WiFi, Bluetooth and USB. iPhone and Android.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/15

Out of the box, a MacBook can do tethering using:

I’ll point to two things about this below:

  1. WiFi is not always the best wireless tethering method
  2. USB is not restricted to iPhone only Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in *nix, Apple, Google, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Nexus 4, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

ESXi Support for 2014 Apple Mac Mini 7,1 | virtuallyGhetto

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/01

Even though it is maxed out at 16 gigabytes of RAM, the other specs make it nice for a home lab server: ESXi Support for 2014 Apple Mac Mini 7,1 | virtuallyGhetto.

–jeroen

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