QUESTION : I had a 70GB Boot Camp partition on my iMac that I wanted to increase the size of, […]
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how can I get the yes command to force overwrite and to do so with new lines?
Problem : I would like cp to prompt before overwriting so I am using -i. (I might sometimes use an […]
Why not having /tmp default permissions to 777 in osX?
QUESTION : I’m often using, on unix servers I’m working with, the /tmp folder as a folder where I write […]
Significant lag on Mac OS X 10.7.5
QUESTION : For the past 2-3 days, my computer has been lagging enormously. I cannot explain why this is the […]
Running an Automator task at night
QUESTION : I’ve just created an Automator workflow and I’m using crontab to execute it at night. The problem is […]
Enhanced dictation not found on Mac OS Catalina
QUESTION : I cannot find the button of enhanced dictation on my Mac OS, in Keyboard->dictation of System preferences. Is […]
Open With TextWrangler for all files
QUESTION : How do I configure TextWrangler and Mac OS X, so that TextWrangler appears in “Open With…” submenu for […]
Any ideas how I could get cpu and disk information from 2 raspberry pis connected on a network and displays them on my mac?
Problem : I have 2 raspberry pis on my home network performing different tasks. sometimes, I’d like to see their […]
CowSay (apt-get moo) for OS X?
Problem : I used Linux before I got a Mac and I remember moo cow “Have you mooed today?” from […]
How do I rid myself of promiscuous permissions OR: do file permissions transfer from HFS (Snow Leopard) to Fat 32?
QUESTION : Moving my digital life from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard some file permissions have been mixed up […]