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Inconsolata-dz (Free) This is a slight modification of the original Inconsolata. It is a fantastic monospaced font for use with Terminal.app, TextMate, MacVim and anywhere else you need one. A must ha …

That sounds like your Mac is actually sleeping (suspend-to-ram) and not just turning it's screen off. If the screen was just turned off, simulated mouse/keyboard input from Synergy should wake it back …

You can do this via Terminal's AppleScript interface, for example to set the background colour of the first tab in the first window to green: tell application "Terminal" set tabsettings to current … There are a few crazy AppleScripts out there that adjust the background opacity by emulating keypresses to Terminal, but that approach is too horrible to even link to. …

Have a look at iosnoop or possibly fs_usage. Although what you want isn't easy to accomplish without major filtering, because "file transfers" can be a lot of different things at syscall level: mv o …

Since you already have QuickSilver installed: osascript -e 'tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type "your text here"' You can use this to define a bash function (and put somewhere like ~/ …

On OS X 10.7 (Lion): smbutil lookup <hostname> Example: $ smbutil lookup NAS1 Got response from 10.21.0.133 IP address of NAS1: 10.21.0.133

Show hidden files in Finder. Then you can either fix the problem in TextEdit, or simply remove/rename the file. There is no default ~/.profile on Mac OS X, only a global /etc/profile (and you may also …

To hide: chflags -h hidden <symlink> To show again: chflags -h nohidden <symlink>

Either get ProxyConf, which does exactly this. Or retrieve the web proxy with networksetup -getwebproxy Ethernet (replace Ethernet with the one you're using from networksetup -listallnetworkservices) …

MTR (Free) by BitWizard - combines ping and traceroute Installation: brew install mtr --no-gtk Packets Pings Host …

By default, sudo retains authentication state for 5 minutes (this is not new to Lion). This default timeout can be controlled with the timestamp_timeout setting in /etc/sudoers (use visudo to edit). S …

The file could simply still be open by something. Use lsof <file> to see which process is hogging it, if any. Otherwise sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/501/Users/myusername/Desktop should get rid of it If that …

The above script is so terribly written it brings tears to my eyes. Considering you're running it on every prompt, you may not want to fork so much. Awk can do all of the above in one line: ioreg - …

On Snow Leopard you can install the TerminalColours plugin, which lets you modify the default colours. On Lion you get a thoroughly updated Terminal.app that lets you do this out of the box and also …

This is controlled globally by enabling System Preferences -> General -> Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.