Simple Tricks to Improve the Terminal Appearance in Mac OS X. The standard terminal appearance is just boring old black text on a white background.
Apple included a few nice preset themes too, but to really make your terminals appearance stand out you’ll want to take the time to customize it yourself. While some of these tweaks are admittedly pure eye candy, others genuinely improve the command line experience and make using the terminal not only more attractive but easier to scan. Follow along and try them all, or just pick and choose which makes the most sense for you. Modify Bash Prompt, Enable Colors, Improve ‘ls’ At a bare minimum, let’s get a better bash prompt, improve the output of the frequently used ls command, and enable colors. Open Terminal and type nano .bash_profilePaste in the following lines: export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ " export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad alias ls='ls -GFh' Hit Control+O to save, then Control+X to exit out of nano Install a Theme.
Context Menu on OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) - Insync Support ❤ SSH Tunneling Explained. Recently I wanted to set up a remote desktop sharing session from home pc to my laptop.
While going through the set up guide I came across ssh tunneling. Even though there are many articles on the subject still it took me a considerable amount of googling, some experimenting and couple of Wireshark sessions to grasp what’s going under the hood. Most of the guides were incomplete in terms of explaining the concept which left me desiring for a good article on the subject with some explanatory illustrations.
So I decided to write it my self. So here goes… Introduction A SSH tunnel consists of an encrypted tunnel created through a SSH protocol connection. To set up a SSH tunnel a given port of one machine needs to be forwarded (of which I am going to talk about in a little while) to a port in the other machine which will be the other end of the tunnel. Port Forwarding SSH tunnels can be created in several ways using different kinds of port forwarding mechanisms. Dynamic Port Forwarding. I have OS x 10.5.8 on my Macbook. Yes.
Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed. Upgrading to Snow Leopard You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard — Apple Store (U.S.).
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. How to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10A380. Jun 12 2009 01:25 | 160 Comments Within the last 24 hours of me posting the previous article with a bunch of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, build 10A380 screenshots, I have gotten a small ton of messages from people via Twitter direct messages, Facebook, iChat and email asking me for how to install Snow Leopard.
As I just don't have the time to explain everything step by step to every single person individually, I decided to write up this brief walkthrough on what to do. Step 1: First of all, obviously you need to acquire the .DMG (disk image) file. If you are an Apple Developer Connection Premiere, or Select member, you can download the .DMG file directly from Apple's Developer Connection website. If you know of any ways to get it otherwise, please do not post any links as I will be forced to remove them. Step 2: With this .DMG file you can do one of two things. Step 3a: If you choose to go down the the DVD-burning route, you need to do the following. Now click on the 'Restore' tab.