How To Uninstalling Xcode in Snow Leopard - Snow Leopard Mac OS X. Getting Started/Build/Mac OS X/MacPorts. Introduction The process described here is one of many ways to set up a KDE development environment on Mac OS X.
It sets up a MacPorts installation to provide the required dependencies and uses this to then build a KDE kf5 development environment. This approach has the big advantage of using MacPorts to build, install and keep updated the base system and libraries required with minimal effort and without touching the base OSX system install. It also gives you the choice of installing and running the latest stable KDE SC for everyday use while still developing on the unstable trunk. The main disadvantage is compiling all the MacPort dependencies takes longer than binary installs, but the ease of maintenance is worth it.
Open in Terminal (4 Ways) Fixing the Backspace key on Mac OS X's Terminal.app. Comments: Through trial-and-error, this seems to be the best way to unbreak the Backspace key on a Mac when using the native Terminal.app to SSH to a (Debian) Linux machine, and then running Emacs inside a Screen session.
Open Terminal -> Preferences Declare terminal type ($TERM) as: rxvt Open Terminal -> Window Settings Choose Keyboard panel Uncheck "Delete key sends backspace" (i.e., this setting is "off") Click button "Use Settings as Defaults" This way, you shouldn't have to mess with stty; you'll still get all the features of xterm-color (ANSI color text, screen save/restore, etc.); and the Backspace key will work normally, even in this situation: Terminal.app -> SSH (to Debian box) -> Screen -> Emacs.
Identifying constant disk writes on Mac OS X. A couple of month ago, I noticed that I was having a constant stream of disk write of about 1MB/s on my MacBook (as seen in Activity Monitor.app).
That would eventually drain my battery faster when running unplugged. First thing to do was to identify the culprit, the process, that generate those writes. As I'm not familiar with the BSD sub-system internals, I Googled and found a list of DTrace one-liners that proved to be handy: Guide. Free and open source software is highly modular, and MacPorts ports often require that other ports be installed beforehand; these prerequisites for a given port are called a port's “dependencies”.
The keywords used when specifying dependencies in a Portfile are related to port install phases, and they refer to what are called library, build, fetch, extract and run dependencies. Though all of them install dependencies before a given port is installed, specifying dependencies with the correct keyword is important for proper port upgrade and uninstall behavior, or when running targets other than install. For example, you may not uninstall a port that is a library dependency for another installed port, though you may remove one that is a build dependency.
Likewise, if you run the fetch target for a port, only the fetch dependencies will be installed first, so they should be all that is needed for that target. There are two types of dependencies: port dependencies and file dependencies. MacPorts Guide. Fink vs. MacPorts - Aidan Findlater. Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync. Written by W. Curtis Preston Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:41 A little while ago I wrote a blog entry about how I was disappointed in Time Machine and how I was trying to figure out something better. I believe I've found my solution, and even have a working shell script that does the job for me. Those of you that don't have Macs really want to pay attention as well, as what I ended up doing works for anything you can run rsync on. First let me say that I think Time Machine is awesome and puts any other native backup utility that I've seen to shame. But, as I said in my previous post, Time Machine starts to lose its coolness when you bring in other machines or buy a Time Capsule.
Problem with launching x11 applications. Let me try to explain my problem as best as I can.
Please bear with me and let me know what other information I need to provide to troubleshoot this. Machine description: Macbook 13.3", Mac OSX 10.5.8, Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0 Problem description: It all started when darwinport failed to install kdegames4 (and my efforts thereafter to get that installed!). I can no longer launch any x11 applications --e.g., xterm, xpdf, xdvi, inkscape, molden, gnuplot with x11. After the problem had started, if I tried to start any of these, the X icon would begin bouncing in the dock and go away just to come back a few seconds later --- this would keep going on and on --- even if I tried to kill them by finding them in the terminal. Disgusted, I installed the Xquartz from XQuartz but that did not help me much. Middle Mouse Button in X11?? - Page 2.
Tuning Mac OS X Performance. The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about? This FAQ provides a brief overview of the Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions functions of Disk Utility in Mac® OS X.
It is a subset of the more comprehensive information on these topics from our book, Troubleshooting Mac OS X. The following topics are addressed: The Repair functions of Disk Utility Disk Utility, located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder, can perform two types of repairs via the following choices in the First Aid tab: The Repair Disk function Repair Disk verifies and, if problems are found, corrects issues with the directory on a disk or volume. Running Mac OS X Maintenance Scripts. Mac® OS X is a UNIX®-based system, built in part on both BSD® and FreeBSD®.
UNIX systems run scheduled maintenance routines — known as maintenance scripts — to clean up a variety of System logs and temporary files. By default, these are executed between 03:15 and 05:30 hours local time, depending on the script. If your Mac is shut down or in sleep mode during these hours, the maintenance scripts will not run. [1] This results in log files that will grow over time, consuming free space on your Mac OS X startup disk. Osx - Open terminal here in Mac OS finder. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Booting into 64-bit mode (Snow Leopard) By default in 2009, Snow Leopard boots into a 32-bit kernel, an odd proposition for an OS claiming to be 64-bit.
But Apple defaulted to a 32-bit kernel for good reasons— it keeps compatibility high with drivers and specialized software, which lowers hassles for users; it keeps bad press away. Like bad breath, bad press makes a lasting first impression. Microsoft halitosis (also known as Windows) turned off a lot of users. (I think Microsoft should change the name, it’s a perfect fit!). Since page was written, over a year has passed— Should you boot into the 64-bit kernel?
Tests of photographic applications show that the gains of booting with the 64-bit kernel can be substantial, keeping in mind that a 30% gain via hardware often costs several thousand dollars more. Migrate from evolution email to Mail to Entourage. Uninstall Programs on Mac. Mac OS X: A Guide for Former Linux Users - Panther Edition. Panther Edition Linux is where I came from.
Mac OS X System Startup. © Amit Singh.
All Rights Reserved. Written in December 2003. Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. To use a keyboard shortcut you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (it has a symbol) and then the "c" key copies whatever is currently selected (text, graphics, and so forth) into the Clipboard. 4 Help: Allowing remote terminal access to your computer. Mac OS Installation Guide for Linux Users - korrekt.org. From korrekt.org As of August 2010, this page is mostly complete. How to block applications from accessing the internet? Exuberant Ctags on OS X 10.5. Note: It's very easy to install ctags, I wrote this mostly because when I install things to OS X I like to check google on how other people did it to make sure I'm not missing something OS X specific.
I couldn't find anyone else that had commented on this so I did. The version of ctags that comes with OS X 10.5 (and probably earlier versions) isn't too great. I don't know what the default version is or anything because it doesn't accept the --version switch. Here's how to get a real ctags installed on your mac: curl -O tar xzvf ctags-5.7.tar.gz cd ctags-5.7 . Easily Mount an ISO in Mac OS X. If you’re wondering how to mount an ISO image in Mac OS X, it is very easy. For most ISO images you can mount them simply by double-clicking the ISO image file, and it will go through the auto-mounter app within OS X putting it on your desktop. Configuring the built-in Cisco IPSec VPN client in Snow Leopard and iPhone (Mac OS X SIG) Compiling screen from CVS on OSX for vertical split.
June 6, 2008 Screen in an amazing tool. The latest version from CVS adds an amazing feature to allow you to split screens vertically (previously you could only split horizontally), which is extremely nice if you have a widescreen monitor. The only problem is that the patch isn’t yet included in MacPorts or Fink for this feature. Change the hostname in Mac OS X [osx] « Larry Gordon. When I log into the network at my job my Mac’s hostname always turns to: larryx.na.corp.ipgnetwork.com. 5: Fix a slow Matlab IDE under 10.5.