I have an old iMac with the specs below. I want to install the most recent OS available for this machine. I want erase all existing data and accounts on the machine. I do not have admin access. I have an apple id, not associated with th…
Lees meerI have an old iMac with the specs below. I want to install the most recent OS available for this machine. I want erase all existing data and accounts on the machine. I do not have admin access. I have an apple id, not associated with th…
Lees meerI have an old iMac with the specs below. I want to install the most recent OS available for this machine. I want erase all existing data and accounts on the machine. I do not have admin access. I have an apple id, not associated with th…
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerIt's nice that I can mirror my iPhone onto my Macbook using a simple lighting to USB-whatever cable, then open Quicktime but what about the inverse of this? I want to simply record my mac's screen booting up into recovery, or record it …
Lees meerFor quite some time (although I don't know when this began), I've been dumbfounded by the fact that I can't find any option for printing from Sfaari. If I go into the Share sheet and look at the "Actions" list, it isn't there. If I clic…
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerI didn’t make a backup and want to recover files from my Mac. I have an internal SSD on my Mac and I have allocated 20GB of it for my Linux. I erased the 20GB Linux on disk utility and wished to free that volume for Mac main volume but …
Lees meerI face a vexing problem on my home set-up involving a Server mac advising a Client mac that a task (a back-up task) was successfully implemented. The purpose of this instruction is to trigger (through the Client mac automation software)…
Lees meerNew to MacBook Pro 2019 (with current OS) As I am tweaking the hotkeys for my Windows brain, there have been several times I added a key to an entry in System Prefs->Keyboard->Shortcuts but no longer want it. Some of them have a checkbo…
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerI have had a Macbook Pro 2019 for two years and I almost always use it plugged to the AC. Let's say I let it fully run out of battery power roughly once a week, just as I used to do with my former MacBook Pro. I have noticed, though, th…
Lees meerIf I do sudo zsh, I can tell I am in zsh by examining ps -ef Is there an easier way? echo $SHELL says it's /bin/sh, because $SHELL is always the default shell, not necessarily the shell that's actually running.
Lees meerI wanted to do npm install -g. As it didn't work due to permissions I took the approach suggested from the accepted answer in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47252451/permission-denied-when-installing-npm-modules-in-osx Change the …
Lees meerIf I do sudo zsh, I can tell I am in zsh by examining ps -ef Is there an easier way? echo $SHELL says it's /bin/sh, because $SHELL is always the default shell, not necessarily the shell that's actually running.
Lees meerEvery new semester I have to paste the same updated information about my office hours, lecture schedule etc into syllabi (in Apple Pages docs) that have a lot of unchanged information about the courses. I would like to have split these …
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerSystem: M1 Max, Monterey 12.1 Situation: Cannot open Anki.app, Calibre epub reader or ColorSync Utility as they all 'quit unexpectedly.' The common error is CGSSetSurfaceColorSpace failed with 1000 across all three apps, and cannot reso…
Lees meerThe tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…
Lees meerEvery time I try to log into MS Teams from safari, it throws an error saying that "Teams is in preview for safari" and tells me to use the desktop application. It recommends disabling cross-site tracking in order to access Teams in safa…
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