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My Github projects:
- WhereAmI: command line utility for getting a Mac's location data.
- RemoveCookie: CLI for removing Safari cookies for specific domains.
- rogersusage: Python script to grab usage data from my ISP (Rogers).
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May 20 |
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Macbook pro evolution between 2011 and 2013 models Pretty similarly - the 2012 models got Ivy Bridge and USB 3, as well as MagSafe 2. More significantly, the 11" got bumped to 4 GB of RAM on the base model, and all the Airs got the option of upgrading to 8 GB, which is probably the most substantial improvement. |
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May 19 |
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AppleScript works fine in 10.8 but not in 10.7 If you saved it as an Application in 10.8, there could be small changes in the package that are causing problems on 10.7. Have you tried using AppleScript Editor to save it separately as a new application on 10.7? |
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May 13 |
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Check Remote Management Status via Terminal Not as far as I know. There may be command line utilities included with Apple Remote Desktop that could do that, but I don't know one way or another. |
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May 8 |
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Any way to use ssh to recover a Mac from spinning beach ball of death This is probably doable, but it really depends on what's causing the beachballing. Does it happen with any predictability? If you can figure out which process is causing the issue, then killing it should work, unless it's something pretty low-level, or a hardware issue (I had a hard drive that would periodically drop connection, causing an unrecoverable beach ball). |
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May 4 |
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Fusion Drive: free space on SSD It varies depending on the type of SSDs, but most keep an area of spare space beyond the advertised capacity, to help deal with that, as well as to deal with NAND wear and so forth. To be honest, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Spare area can have an effect on SSDs, but the effects and required space varies a lot. If you really wanted to set aside more spare area, you could partition the drive so that there's an empty partition, and use the rest for the Fusion drive. |
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May 3 |
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What does a 2012 Mac Mini need for microphone input? Can't tell for sure from that link (it's just a picture), but it appears like that would do the right thing. It does have the proper TRRS connector. If that answers your question, please mark it as answered (green checkmark). |
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May 3 |
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How to get Mountain Lion to recognise modifier keys from external Windows keyboard Those settings in System Preferences should do exactly what you expect. Could you perhaps take a screenshot of the window (control-shift-command-4) and show us the settings? |
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Apr 28 |
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How do you set up a second VNC session? It might be helpful if you expanded on exactly what you're hoping to achieve here. You want to open two VNC connections from your laptop to your desktop? |
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Apr 27 |
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What does the spinning circle next to the network indicators on iOS mean? You're welcome. If that answered your question, please click the green checkmark next to the answer to mark it as such. |
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Apr 25 |
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Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries Yeah, one of the stupider changes made in Lion. Back in 10.6 they had the nice drop-down triangles standard in most UIs. |
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Apr 24 |
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Should I use Automator or another program for repetitious tasks? @Stephen I answered this in the other question you posted. |
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Apr 22 |
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How to losslessly rotate rotate jpeg images *without* a change to the last modified date? If you need the workflow simplified, you could put this into an Automator workflow along with an image rotation action. |
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Apr 22 |
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Touching files in correct order It might help if you expanded on this a bit. How are you sure that it's running through the files in an order other than your list? Running touch with three files should take so little time that they should all end up with the same timestamps (as OS X doesn't record file timestamps more granularly than seconds). |
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Apr 16 |
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How to determine which files are on SSD on Fusion Drive? Because Fusion doesn't work with traditional partitions. disk2 in is the logical volume created by joining the two drives. From the filesystem's point of view, that is where the file lives, but it's independent of where the underlying bits are physically stored. You might want to read up on how the Fusion drive works for a more in-depth explanation. |
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Apr 16 |
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How to determine which files are on SSD on Fusion Drive? Depending on the access patterns and how long you've been using your Fusion drive, accessing a file once or twice may be enough for the system to "promote" it to the SSD, in which case you may see access on both, so it's unfortunately not foolproof, but it should be enough for a good guess. |
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Apr 14 |
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Microsoft Remote Desktop through ssh-forwarded port @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen can you detail (perhaps in the original question) what your custom port forwarding is? The question makes it sound like you have use of SSH, but this comment conflicts with that? Might help out... |
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Apr 10 |
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Converting Audio to AC-3 using afconvert? Thanks. I've used aften before on my Linux box, but for some reason I didn't think it was available for OS X. Just discovered there's a Homebrew formula, so that's a good option. Still hoping out for an afconvert solution, but this was helpful, thanks! |
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Apr 9 |
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Converting Audio to AC-3 using afconvert? Thanks, but not really helpful. That's for converting to AAC, which as I noted in the question already works, but is not my desired output. It seems to be an issue specific to the AC3 conversion. I'll try to find a decent sample file and link to it later if you want to test some things out. |
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Apr 1 |
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Converting Audio to AC-3 using afconvert? Yeah, that's my fallback. In the past the ffmpeg AC3 encoders haven't had a great reputation for quality, which is why I was hoping to avoid it. |
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Apr 1 |
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Play audio CLI apps Thanks for patrix for pointing out how to pause/resume playback. |
