On Linux, many distros ship with systemd. Systemd supports "timers", which are a kind of systemd service for running programs on a schedule. There are of course many ways of scheduling tasks, such as the venerable cron which was replace…
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Lees meerI have a 2007 iMac and was recently formatted to give to a friend. It was working perfectly before this and always updated as far as it could go. When formatted I installed snow leopard. When opening Safari I realized it would not ope…
Lees meerI have a 2007 iMac and was recently formatted to give to a friend. It was working perfectly before this and always updated as far as it could go. When formatted I installed snow leopard. When opening Safari I realized it would not ope…
Lees meerI would like to get the VPN connection status in a script. On macOS 13.2.1 I have two VPNs configured (i believe both are of type IKEv2) but i can see neither of them using scutil --nc list nor networksetup -listpppoeservices. Is ther…
Lees meerI would like to get the VPN connection status in a script. On macOS 13.2.1 I have two VPNs configured (i believe both are of type IKEv2) but i can see neither of them using scutil --nc list nor networksetup -listpppoeservices. Is ther…
Lees meerBackground I have 3 Macs at home, all running MacOS 13 Ventura. All of these Macs are running on relatively new computers but the systems have been passed on via Migration Assistant/Time Machine backups since the beginning of the ~2010s…
Lees meerI have a MacBook Air M1 and two different solar batteries* that have 100W USB-C outputs. Can plug the USB-C cable that came with my computer from the USB-C output port on the battery directly into the USB port on the MacBook Air? *Bluet…
Lees meerI have a virtualbox setup I was using on catalina. I finally got around to reinstalling the machine and updating to Ventura. The test suite (running in an Ubuntu vm) has gone from 26 minutes to over an hour, with no other changes. The …
Lees meerI'm unable to reclaim free space after uninstalling Boot Camp (done through the Boot Camp Assistant). Here are some screenshots from Disk Utility and results from diskutil: $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: …
Lees meerI have a virtualbox setup I was using on catalina. I finally got around to reinstalling the machine and updating to Ventura. The test suite (running in an Ubuntu vm) has gone from 26 minutes to over an hour, with no other changes. The …
Lees meerSuppose that we are doing some operations on drives using for example diskutil. Usually we use /dev/diskX to indicate which drive we are working on, but the number X could change next time we connect the drive to computer, so we have to…
Lees meerI'm toying around with DOSBox in debugger mode and it seems that in order to break into the debug mode while running I need to run Alt-Pause which on the Mac is Alt+F16 (see DOSBoxWiki: Special Keys). However, there is no F16 key on a M…
Lees meerI recently bought a Mac Mini to use as a NAS, among other things. I'm thinking about setting up a couple external drives as a RAID 1 (mirrored) set to help safeguard my data in case one of them goes bad. When a disk goes bad, how does t…
Lees meerI'm unable to reclaim free space after uninstalling Bootcamp (done through Boot Camp Assistant). Here are some screenshots from Disk Utility and results from diskutil: $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: …
Lees meerI'm toying around with DOSBox in debugger mode and it seems that in order to break into the debug mode while running I need to run Alt-Pause which on the Mac is Alt+F16 (see DOSBoxWiki: Special Keys). However, there is no F16 key on a M…
Lees meerI'm unable to reclaim free space after bootcamp uninstall (done thru boot camp assistant). Here are some screenshots from disk utility and results from diskutil: $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: …
Lees meerHere is how U+261E (manicule) and U+00B6 (pilcrow) are displayed in Pages: As you can see, all the U+261E and U+00B6 glyphs looks pretty the same across Menlo, Monaco and Courier New (with the exception of pilcrow in Courier New) and a…
Lees meerI still use Snapz Pro as my main screen capture app. I recently upgraded both my M1 Mac Studio and my Intel iMac to Ventura. Because Ambrosia SW is no longer in business and has no website, the only way to enter my license code is to ru…
Lees meerHere is how U+261E (manicule) and U+00B6 (pilcrow) are displayed in Pages: As you can see, all the U+261E and U+00B6 glyphs looks pretty the same across Menlo, Monaco and Courier New (with the exception of pilcrow in Courier New) and a…
Lees meerBackground I have 3 Macs at home, all running MacOS 13 Ventura. All of these Macs are running on relatively new computers but the systems have been passed on via Migration Assistant/Time Machine backups since the beginning of the ~2010s…
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