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To connect a Mac OS X system USB port to the console using the built-in OS X Terminal utility, follow these steps: Step 1 Use the Finder to go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Step 2 Connect the OS X USB port to the router. Step 3 Enter the following commands to find the …
One annoying capability of Chrome on OSX is that it defaults to a “Chrome” Specific Print Dialog Box instead of the system one. I finally found the way to reset this behavior and force Chrome to default to the system dialog. Open a terminal window and do the following: defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -bool true
A lot of people ask what the proper way of setting up the different versions of Python on a brand new Mac. After discussing it with people, this pretty much sums it up. http://python-guide-pt-br.readthedocs.io/en/latest/starting/install/osx/ Install HomeBrew $ /usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” NOTE: When I tried this on my home MAC, I didn’t have …
Sometimes it is useful to PDF something on the screen and send it to an alternative application like Omnifocus. For example, if I get an email receipt in email, and I want to print this out, I would like to save the email as a PDF and then automatically send in my email to my …
Sometimes you may want to add a blank space to the OSX Dock to better organize applications. From the terminal window, you can do: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{“tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’ killall Dock Your desktop will go black for a few seconds and close the dock. It will then reappear with a blank space on the …
It seems like there is an issue with over 1 million files or the backup size if over 1TB. As a result, CrashPlan may be running out of memory on the computer. By default, CrashPlan is only allowed to access 1024 MB of memory (regardless of how much is available on the computer). When the …
Sometimes, it seems that OSX migrated to SMB for connection to drobo’s. Unfortunately, this won’t work since a Sparse Bundle is not support over a SMB Connection. Use, this process to solve the issue: Sparsebundle disk images are not supported on some filesystems CCC will refuse to save or mount a sparse bundle disk image …
I have both iCloud and Exchange syncing on my computer. iCloud is used for personal contacts and Exchange is used for my work and business emails and contacts. Normally this setting works great and when I use the iMessage platform, anytime a text comes in, it will display the right name. However, after upgrading to …
Sometimes you may want to set a customer umask in OSX/Linux to ensure that default permissions are correct. For example, Maybe I would like to assign read/write for both the owner of a file and the group membership. You can do this by the following: Setting a custom umask in OS X https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201684 To change …