Disable macOS Dock’s Bounce to Alert Behaviour
In Terminal defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE killall Dock
Homebrew: fatal: Needed a single revision
$ brew update Checking out v1.0.1 in /usr/local/Homebrew… To checkout master in /usr/local/Homebrew run: ‘cd /usr/local/Homebrew && git checkout master Checking out v1.0.1 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask… To checkout master in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask run: ‘cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask && git checkout master fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch ‘v1.0.1’ at the same time. Did you intend to checkout ‘refs/tags/1.0.1’ which can not be resolved as commit? fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream refs/tags/1.0.1 Checking out v1.0.1 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-versions… To checkout master in…
.ssh/config: line 7: Bad configuration option: useroaming on macOS 10.12 Sierra
ssh servername /Users/steven/.ssh/config: line 7: Bad configuration option: useroaming /Users/steven/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options Line 7 is UseRoaming no which I because of CVE-2016-0777 $ ssh -V OpenSSH_7.2p2, LibreSSL 2.4.1 Solution: Comment out that line as the version of OpenSSH that ships with macOS 10.12 no longer had that insecure feature.
Take a Screenshot Using VMWare Fusion on macOS
Use the escape key combination: ctrl+command Then using the regular macOS screenshot shortcuts. https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361
Eject a Disk on Mac OS X from Command Line
diskutil info -all Look for the disk: eg. disk3 diskutil unmountDisk disk3 Unmount of all volumes on disk3 was successful
Unmount DMG from Command Line in Mac OS X
hdiutil info to find the disk id hdiutil detach /dev/disk3
Capture Localhost Traffic ie. on Loopback on OS X
sudo tcpdump -i lo0 -X -i selects the interface -X prints packets in hex and ascii
Remove “Lookup” Contextual Menu Item from Mac OS X
System Preferences -> Keyboard and look under services then uncheck it. However this didn’t work for me, in Chrome it still appears. /Library/Contextual Menu Items/ is empty for me too. ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ doesn’t exist. Oh crap, turns out you can’t turn it off: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/37566/is-the-lookup-in-dictionary-context-menu-option-hardcoded-in-google-chrome-for See this issue in my opinion it seems to be now Google’s mo to remove control from the user. Too bad Firefox has really sucked of late.
Search for a command in Homebrew
Two ways: brew search forumla Which is in built however won’t work if you are looking for if it’s not the name of the formula. This is my script called brew-search #!/usr/bin/env bash curl –silent –compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-command-not-found/master/executables.txt | grep -P “^$1:|[: ]$1( |$)” | grep -Po ‘^.+(?=:)’ Which can be called by brew-search command My script works for xxd. $ brew search xxd $ brew-search xxd vim
Where are Photos Stored on my Mac
Sadly I have to admit I Googled this, as I didn’t see the Pictures folder. They are in ~/Pictures/ In Finder you an press CMD-SHIFT-H and click on the Pictures folder.