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CLI commands that let you access meta data of all files in OSX
Two small commands with huge possibilities: mdls usage: mdls [-name attr] [-raw [-nullMarker markerString]] [-plist file] pathlist the values of one or all the attributes of the specified file -raw: don’t print attribute names before values -nullMarker: substitute this string for null attributes in raw mode -plist: output attributes in XML format to file. Use…
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Everything you ever needed to know about OSX launchd
Great in-depth article by Nathan Grigg. Everything you ever wanted to know about launchd and how job scheduling can be easily done under OSX.
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Get Control of Mountain Lion with a huge list of command line tweaks…..
As pointed out to me in the comments the original Author — Mathias Bynens — is constantly updating this document. You can find the latest up to date version at http://mths.be/osx # ~/.osx — http://mths.be/osx ############################################################################### # General UI/UX # ############################################################################### # Set computer name (as done via System Preferences → Sharing) scutil –set ComputerName…
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Create a Mountain Lion Install DVD or USB Drive after App Store purchase
Once you’ve purchased Mountain Lion from the App Store, follow these steps to create a backup install DVD or flash drive Download Lion from the Mac App Store—but don’t install it yet, because of the disappearing installer issue noted above. Find the installer in your Applications folder and right-click on it then select “Show Package…
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SSH to your remote machine using Back to My Mac iCloud Service
This is kinda cool. It only works if you have access to “Back to My Mac” service and you have it turned on in the remote mac’s preferences (under iCloud preferences). If you ever need to find out the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of your remote mac and connect to it via ssh or…
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Turn off Parallels Promo Ads….
This has been driving me mad ever since I started using Parallels Desktop for Mac. The damn promo screen that keeps popping up to sell me some crapware. Well here is a quick defaults command to turn it off defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES Done…..Enjoy :-)
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R.I.P. Jack Tramiel
Probably one of the least known people in modern computing, Jack Tramiel, the man who brought us Commodore (and later on Atari Corp.) has passed away at age 83.
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Get the “Bounce” command back in Mail application under OSX Lion
The “Bounce” command is really useful for those times when you’re receiving spam mail that gives you no recourse to opt-out. Usually Ads and announcements have a link to unsubscribe, but if they don’t I usually just “bounce” the mail back to the sender and that usually causes the sender to take me off their…
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Synology NAS and those pesky @eaDir folders
If you’ve enabled MediaServer and/or PhotoStation on your Synology NAS you might have noticed a bunch of “@eaDir” folders inside your data folders. You will not normally see this under samba or appletalk connections. I noticed it since I was trying to rsync from synology to a old qnap nas I have lying around. Although…
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Getting apache mod_status and mod_info to play nicely with wordpress…..
After reading many (too many) posts about this subject that did not work, I finally found a way to get this working. If you have a wordpress site setup you will, at some point during the installation, be told to copy a bunch of “redirect” code to your .htaccess file in your wordpress installation folder.…