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| bio | website | viktor-haag.livejournal.com |
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| location | Ontario, Canada | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | Nov 30 '12 at 15:09 | |
| stats | profile views | 21 |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 16 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 3 |
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Updating everything installed through Homebrew on Mountain Lion I seen no reason why this is closed as off topic: the FAQ specifically states that "third-party hardware and software for Apple products" is in scope, and this isn't a programming question. In fact, it's a useful question with a useful answer. |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 3 |
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How do I properly uninstall Kensington TrackballWorks from OSX Lion? That's a very good point. Thank-you. As it was, I looked in the BOM for the TrackballWorks software to find all the things it installed and noticed that it did, in fact, provide an uninstaller. So, either way I would be able to clean up everything it left (either by removing everything listed in its BOM, or just using the uninstaller app). |
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Dec 22 |
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How do I properly uninstall Kensington TrackballWorks from OSX Lion? I understand the explanation for why my question was closed, but another recent one (apple.stackexchange.com/questions/34381/…) is still open and has answers; what is the important difference between my question and the other? |
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Dec 22 |
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How do I start TextEditor from the command line? comma cleanup |
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Dec 21 |
awarded | Student |
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Dec 21 |
asked | How do I properly uninstall Kensington TrackballWorks from OSX Lion? |
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Dec 21 |
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Driver software for Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro on 10.7 I also found that TrackballWorks did not work with my model of the Expert Mouse Pro, model K64213, and now I'm struck trying to figure out how to uninstall (thoroughly) this TRackballWorks software. |
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Jun 29 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jun 29 |
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Using grep on Mac-style text files If you don't want to actually change the content of the source files themselves, this answer is better as it does the translation in-stream rather than hack the original file. Nice! |
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Jun 29 |
answered | Using grep on Mac-style text files |
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Jun 27 |
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How do I start TextEditor from the command line? Notice that I'm not sure that the convention of passing the file name argument directly to the application's name on the command line may not work for all applications. Only applications that are built to accept filenames on the command line as valid arguments for opening will work this way. I think that the more general open command uses a more thorough method to get an application to "open" the file argument passed to the open command (i.e. it depends on the same functionality by which the Finder's "double click to open" action works). |
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Jun 27 |
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How do I start TextEditor from the command line? Both Nathan and mipadi provide answers, but I think they're only partial answers, so I added one. I'm not sure if it would have been better to combine their responses somehow, and if so, how to have done that. |
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Jun 27 |
answered | How do I start TextEditor from the command line? |
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Jun 22 |
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What are the main difficulties people face migrating from Linux to Mac OS? @Harv, as of recent OSX releases, Terminal.app also supports tabs. This lets you start several shells, all attached to separate pseudo terminals. However, again, pseudo terminals are, technically, not completely equatable to "consoles", depending on how one wants to use that term (one might say that a pseudo terminal device, like Terminal.app attaches to, is a kind of console, and a particularly limited kind of one). |
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Jun 22 |
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What are the main difficulties people face migrating from Linux to Mac OS? @Harv Correct -- you have to deliberately enable "root", and it's also probably a good idea not to do it. However, it's typically a good idea when you first come to a fresh OSX install to log in "very first" as "Administrator" with a different password, then afterwards create another account for your daily use. When you need to do "administration-type stuff" like installing applications, doing updates, and the like, you can then switch your login to logging in as the Administrator user. |
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Jun 22 |
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What are the main difficulties people face migrating from Linux to Mac OS? @Martin, I suspect that "Terminal" and "console", in the way that René is using the term, might be slightly different things. "Terminal" is an application that's capable of interacting with the OS as the input/output point for a pseudo terminal; but it's also possible that Linux offers a user the ability to use their same display/keyboard to behave as if it were entirely different physical terminals, from the kernel's point of view, letting the user switch the same hardware to act as input/output points for these various consoles. AFAIK, OSX doesn't quite let you do that. |
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Jun 22 |
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What are the main difficulties people face migrating from Linux to Mac OS? HFS+ is case insensitive, but it is also case preserving. |
