Apple Mac Character Code Shortcuts
Here is a neat cheat sheet of character codes for the likes of proportional, infinity, the Greek alphabet and more. Ref: http://www.geoff-hart.com/resources/accents-mac.pdf
Category Archives: OSX
Opening up an application using terminal in OSX
If you have ever wondered how to open an application using terminal, the command is very simple. > open -a application_name For instance: > open -a Calculator.app Note that auto-complete will place a forward slash like this > open -a Calculator.app/ You will have to remove it. Your current directory in terminal should be the… Read More »
How to Remote Desktop into Windows from OSX
I had the pleasure if installing Windows 8.1 onto a machine because I was having driver compatibility issues with Ubuntu. It was like taking a step back in time. Took almost all day to install windows 8. Then install the security updates, then upgrade to 8.1. What a mission. However, it’s good to be back… Read More »
Renaming files in OSX with brew rename
There is a neat tool to rename files very quickly. Install it with brew via >> brew rename I had to remove the dot from this file name: 2016-10-24 19.12.15.jpg because the system that I was using was poorly designed and expected a file extension after the first period. I ran >> rename -nvs ‘.’ ”… Read More »
Neat little brew cheat sheet
http://zqpythonic.qiniucdn.com/data/20111223160257/index.html
To build from source, binary or tarball?
It’s a lot quicker and less hassle to build from a tarball but lets face it, it’s just not as fun :). Let’s go through a simple sample process. There is an open source code call cpuminer that turns your computer into a bitcoin miner. Back in the days, this is how bitcoin mining all… Read More »
Basics of OSX .bashrc v .profile v .bash_profile
The key to understanding what all this means it is important first understand the difference between a login shell and a non-login shell. Types of Shells A login shell is when you are logging in remotely to another machine via ssh. You generally need to login. A non-login shell is when you are already logged into… Read More »
Mac OSX fatal error: ‘openssl/sha.h’ file not found
If you have come across this sha.h not found error on a Mac, it is because Apple dropped support for openssl. Apple deprecated its OpenSSL shared libraries a while back (with OS X 10.7). That’s because OpenSSL doesn’t offer release-to-release binary compatibility, so we can’t update the shared libraries to the latest OpenSSL without breaking… Read More »
Setting up Confluence on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan
Getting Confluence 5.9.3 on my Mac this time was a little too easy. It took all of 5 minutes and left me wondering if I had missed something. Caveat: I had gone through the pain of installing Java when I installed JIRA so this helped a lot. If you haven’t installed JIRA, look at my… Read More »
Git tab autocomplete on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
In Ubuntu, this comes out of the box but in terminal on OSX a few extra steps are required to get this to work. It is a bit of a hassle figuring out what needs to be done, but once you know, it literally takes 10 seconds. Step 1: Download auto completion script: >> cd… Read More »