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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/03
I’m a command-line addict, so this was a great SuperUser question by Željko Filipin:
I know how to find Mac OS X version from GUI: Apple Menu (top left) > About This Mac
Is there a Terminal command that will tell me Mac OS X version?
It was answered by User delfuego:
You have a few options:
sw_vers -productVersion
system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
These commands led me to this post: Finding OS X Version and Build Information From the Command Line | The Nubby Admin that also showed these commands:
uname -a
osascript -e 'system info'
Where uname shows only the kernal version, oascript gives a ton of information. Read the rest of this entry »
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, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/25
Posted in Apple, Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/24
Last week, Apple fixed the so called #gotofail bug for iOS devices. Other devices (Macs with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, maybe earlier versions and I also suspect Apple TV to be vulnerable) will follow soon.
I thought that Old iOS devices would be in the dark as the updates are for iOS 6.x and 7.x only. So any device that can only run on iOS 5 or lower might not be supported.
So I thought these devices would be unsupported, but found out an iPad 1st generation would pass the gotofail.com test.
So if you have any of these, please let me know if they fail or pass:
- iPhone 3 or earlier,
- iPod Touch 3rd generation or earlier,
- iPad 1st generation: passes.
Please watch any security announcements carefully with using Apple equipment, as the bug can highly facilitate a man-in-the-middle attack.
Some other site with background information (it hit the news wildly): Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Development, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/16
Now that I’m back home, a small follow-up on the post Happy 30th birthday Mac! « The Wiert Corner with some interesting links.
I know most Mac users now run Mac OS X, but back then it was called a Macintosh, had System as OS, but you had the Finder and the Apple logo still had colours (:
So here are the links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/15
A few links to useful posts about Mac OS X Spaces that help you organize your desktop(s):
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, 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 | Tagged: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Spaces | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13
This reminds me about mapping the CapsLock to Windows-key on old Lenovo keyboard (you can do that [Wayback/Archive] with ReMapKey from Microsoft, the [Wayback/Archive] slightly more convoluted open source SharpKeys, or a AutoHotKey script), and a [Wayback] Mac equivalent:
MacOS:
I like to have a second Control key instead of Caps Lock.
In OS X, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys… and change or turn off Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command.
For more radical key remapping in OS X, use KeyRemap4MacBook. Despite the name, it works on non-Macbook machines, too.
…
ChromeBook:
If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook, you can turn the Search button into a Caps Lock button in a couple steps: find “Keyboard Settings” under the “Settings” menu, and select “Caps Lock” under the “Search” drop-down menu.
Or you can use this quick link on your Chromebook: chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay
Chromebook has [Wayback/Archive] quite some different keys than a Windows keyboard.
Ben Ostrowsky has a nice post with an SVG drawing of the [Wayback/Archive] Chromebook keyboard layout.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Chromebook, Google, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, 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 | Tagged: Caps Lock, Chromebook, keyboard, map, remap, Windows keyboard | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13
Just append -O and -v to a command-line:
nmap -O -v ip-address
Note you need administrative privileges for this on Mac OS X, so there you run it like this:
sudo nmap -O -v ip-address
If you want to scan more than the default 1000 TCP ports, then use the -p- switch:
sudo nmap -O -v -p- ip-address
For more info about the finger printing algorithms used by nmap:
–jeroen
via: Usage and Examples.
Posted in *nix, Apple, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, SuSE Linux | Tagged: administrative privileges, nmap | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13
You don’t want to fully open your Mac to always install applications, so I’m glad that OSXDaily provided multiple workarounds:
Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X.
I needed it to install the nmap binary for OS X.
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Tagged: Mac, OSXDaily | Leave a Comment »
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