20 posts tagged Mac Os X
This is quick and dirty (and with the help of ChatGPT).
FlatTurtle has a new site, and there's been some fine-tuning here and there that led to a few typos creeping in. I wanted a quick tool to plug in a page, and that would highlight possible mistakes.
I've been a personal (paying) user of LanguageTool for a few years now (European, and less spammy and dodgy than Grammarly)
You can see how this script makes that couple very happy.
Quick and dirty script that shows your Mac battery information (health, cycles, etc). If an Apple keyboard or mouse is connected, it'll also display the battery % of those.
# Battery information
battery() {
if !ioreg > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "ioreg not found. Exiting."
return 1
fi
_ioreg=`ioreg -l`
_profile=`system_profiler SPPowerDataType`
MOUSE=`echo $_ioreg -l | grep -A 10 "Mouse" | grep '"BatteryPercent" =' | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`
TRACKPAD=`echo $_ioreg -l | grep -A 10 "Track" | grep '"BatteryPercent" =' | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`
KEYBOARD=`echo $_ioreg -l | grep -A 10 "Keyboard" | grep '"BatteryPercent" =' | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`
CYCLE=`echo $_profile | grep "Cycle Count" | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ -n "$MOUSE" ]; then
echo "Mouse: "$MOUSE"%"
fi
if [ -n "$TRACKPAD" ]; then
echo "Trackpad: "$TRACKPAD"%"
fi
if [ -n "$KEYBOARD" ]; then
echo "Keyboard: "$KEYBOARD"%"
fi
if [ -n "$CYCLE" ] && [ "$CYCLE" -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Mac battery "`echo $_profile | grep "State of Charge" | awk '{print $5}'`"%"
echo "Charging: "`echo $_profile | grep "Charging" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "Cycles: "$CYCLE
echo "Condition: "`echo $_profile | grep "Condition" | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "Health: "`echo $_profile | grep "Maximum Capacity" | awk '{print $3}'`
fi
}Outputs something similar to this (no mouse or keyboard connected):
I recently got my mom a Macbook Air M1, upgrading from a 2010 Macbook Pro (High Sierra).
When migrating over from High Sierra to Big Sur, using Migration Assistant (my Synology TimeMachine kept on failing -- but besides that, migration went smoothly) two issues came up that required calling Apple.
But first off I noticed that when migrating, for some reason FileVault was turned off (more on that later). I, obviously, turned it on.
For sale due to getting a portable Macbook:
Specs:
E-mails that had been deleted for over 7 days were automatically removed from the IMAP server. E-mail date was ignored (ie the mail could have been from 2010; the actual time in “Trash” counted). This didn’t happen to other folders (Sent, Archive, Spam). This recently happened and hadn’t happened before.
I had to restore my trash folder from backups every 7 days (yay for rdiff-backup).
It took me a while to figure it out… The problem first appeared in October, right after several big changes:
I’m selling a Mac Mini 1.5Ghz G4 (PowerPC) with 512Mb ram. It has a 80Gb disk in it (7200 rpm I believe, but not sure). It runs Linux like a charm, and is a perfect server (and WAY faster than a Raspberry Pi).
It comes with the power adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter, and in the picture below is the optional WiFi adapter.
Mavericks, and its new "multi display support" adds a grey-ish bar to the top of VLC when watching anything full screen.
I never found a way to get rid of it, and it has annoyed me ever since. Until yesterday...
This is how to get rid of it:
I recently dared to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Mountain Lion (10.8), skipping Lion (10.7) altogether.
One of the mayor disturbances I had, was when I was using my Macbook Pro at my home office. I use an external display (some Samsung SyncMaster) as well as my MBP’s main display.
I put my MBP to sleep by simply closing the lid, keeping the power source and external display attached.
There's a precompiled wget available on the net, but it's not automatically accepting StartSSL's certificates. And as it seems, there's a wget update available that did.
This is what I had to do to compile it on my Macbook Pro;
Or you'll get this error:
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
PATH=/Developer/usr/bin/:$PATH
tar xvzf wget-latest.*
cd wget directory ./configure make sudo make install
Angry IP scanner was quitting each time I started the application, and looking at Console I saw these errors:
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed loading MRJApp.properties file
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed while getting Resource/Java directory
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] [LaunchRunner Error] No main class specified
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CallStaticVoidMethod() threw an exception
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:112)
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:50)
06/11/08 11:34:15 [0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190] at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.main(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:61)
06/11/08 11:34:15 com.apple.launchd[97] ([0x0-0x1f01f].net.azib.ipscan[190]) Exited with exit code: 1
After some googling I came upon this website.