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Pass: the standard unix password manager

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Brandon

Today I was reading a blog post on moving away from OS X and I discovered Pass. It seems to me like it would be a solid replacement for my daily driver 1Password now that they have moved to some Continue reading Pass: the standard unix password manager→

Posted in Linux, OS X

installing or upgrading a package in OS X from the terminal

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

I wanted to install Boxee without disturbing my wife on the mac mini, so here is what I did. 1. transfer the disk image to the host mount the disk image install the package unmount the disk image enjoy

Posted in HTPC, OS X | Leave a reply

How to set OS X volume from cli.

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

osascript -e “set Volume 0” osascript -e “set Volume 10” 1. you aren’t limited to integers, 1.5 would also work 2. original article

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How do reset all iCal data

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

*WARNING* THIS WILL REMOVE ALL OF YOUR CALENDARS *WARNING* 1. delete everything in ~/Library/Calendars, and in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/ 2. Profit.

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ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

I had read about the transparent compression that zfs offers. I wanted to verify it so I did, and sent my results off. As we all know no experiment is valid unless verifiable. I wanted be sure that the transparent Continue reading ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –→

Posted in Linux, OS X, Projects, Work | 1 Reply

I found a quick way to clear the terminal without using the “clear” command.

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

Just hit command +K.

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I made a liboggz installer for OS 10.5

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

Here. This includes the oggzrip utility. Maybe later I’ll give instructions for compiling things you intend to turn into packages. If I feel like it that is; biatches.

Posted in OS X, Work | 1 Reply

Have spotlight reindex any volume

Posted on December 1, 2007 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

Its rare, but sometimes spotlight gets a little dumb. It will start missing things in /Applications or people in your address book. If this happens to you then you can have it reindex the volume. Just run mdutil -E /  Continue reading Have spotlight reindex any volume→

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If you are having DNS issues w/ OS X. Look into scutil.

Posted on December 1, 2007 by Brandon — 3 Comments ↓

We had been having some problems w/ dns for OS 10.4 users. After running lookupd -flushcache didn’t work, and host was returning the correct values I got confused. Google to the rescue once again. I fixed it with scutil. If Continue reading If you are having DNS issues w/ OS X. Look into scutil.→

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