I have a GUI wrapper of UNIX command line program. I noticed that Apple announced Apple Silicon Mac. Sooner or later I need to build Universal Binary of my GUI wrapper. But at first, I need to build UNIX command line program for Appl…
Lees meerMacpro, Mid 2010, 12 core, 96GB memory, Running 10.10.5 I am seeing a restart, i.e. coming back to the Mac having rebooted itself, every few days. This is the entire report - Anonymous UUID: 88D54F26-424A-3B8C-8AE0-9E037010D131 S…
Lees meerI would like to recover some unallocated (?) disk space on an external hard drive /dev/disk2 is 1TB but I only see a 250GB partition. Here is a terminal screenshot and a Disk Utility one. Is there any way I could add the remaining 750…
Lees meerI am writing an application in Swift and I have attempted to allow it to launch at login by following a number of tutorials. This involves creating a launcher application and enabling it using SMLoginItemSetEnabled. Things have gone hor…
Lees meerI have a late 2017 MacBook with the latest Catalina. Using two Anker USB extenders, I have devices in pretty much every port, including six large external hard drives, a webcam and an external SD card. I suspect that somehow I have maxe…
Lees meerI want to test the performance of a NAS before and after I change its setup. I have found two tools for this, fio and bonnie++. The problem is that they are both broken on Mac right now (and have been for some time it seems). fio doesn'…
Lees meerApple has released a new, smaller version of their speaker: HomePod Mini. One of my complaints with the original HomePod was its use of a proprietary power cable connector, which made it difficult to replace or shorten the cable. Most …
Lees meerApple has released a new, smaller version of their speaker: HomePod Mini. One of my complaints with the original HomePod was its use of a proprietary power cable connector, which made it difficult to replace or shorten the cable. Most …
Lees meerMacpro, Mid 2010, 12 core, 96GB memory, Running 10.10.5 I am seeing a restart, i.e. coming back to the Mac having rebooted itself, every few days. This is the entire report - Anonymous UUID: 88D54F26-424A-3B8C-8AE0-9E037010D131 S…
Lees meerI am trying to connect a 15-inch Macbook Pro 2017 to a p3418HW Dell monitor, through a USB-C to HDMI adapter (VTIN 4Kx2K USB-C to HDMI). The monitor shows: "No HDMI signal from your device". I have tried the following suggestions on the…
Lees meerBefore I delete iMovie and GarageBand on a shared MacBook Pro (I'm the admin), if I upgrade from MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 to Big Sur (whenever it launches), will they auto-restore on Big Sur being installed? I know that if I want to reins…
Lees meerI have a 10.2" iPad with the apple pencil. As I need to use the pencil lots of hours per day, I'm a bit worried that the screen may deteriorate. I was considering to buy a protective film, and I have two questions: does it have a bad i…
Lees meerWhen my mom switches to email on her iPhone, it shows a pop-up that says "Undo read?" with ok and cancel buttons. I've googled till I'm blue in the face, and it's very clear that this is the "shake to undo" feature, and that you can mak…
Lees meerI sometimes find it useful to be able to search my entire hard disk with the "find" command, but I want to exclude all volumes on external drives. I have a script that I use in lieu of the "find" command to exclude external volumes. Sin…
Lees meerWhen I try to launch Test.jar apple pops up with the error The Java JAR file "Test.jar" could not be launched. when I do java -version it says... java version "15" 2020-09-15 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 15+36-1562) Java HotSp…
Lees meerIs there any way to customise the rEFInd bootloader to set a custom nvram variable, either in refind.conf or any other way? Specifically, I'd like to set a value for the boot-args variable. It seems like an obvious/standard thing that s…
Lees meerI am trying to understand why my almost factory settings 13-inch MacBook Air 2017 with 8GB RAM available takes 2.3GB to just boot. The result is that if I start having Chrome+Dropbox+something to write any document, the machine starts s…
Lees meerI am trying to understand why my almost factory settings 13-inch MacBook Air 2017 with 8GB RAM available takes 2.3GB to just boot. The result is that if I start having Chrome+Dropbox+something to write any document, the machine starts s…
Lees meerI use a MacBook Pro as a Laptop and mainly Linux to work. Mostly i like to use the same Keyboard (Ducky one 2 SF) for both devices. I chose the same keyboard settings (German) in Mac OS as in all other Systems. My Problem is, that the t…
Lees meerNote: I only want to download it, not install it on the 2011! The App store doesn't let me download it, but I don't want to install it, I just want to download it and create an USB installer so I can restore my other Mac. How can I do …
Lees meerI have a broken key on my Mac's keyboard and I need to remap it to some other key, by double press. Temporarily. It's not a special but an alphabet letter one. I want to remap it this way: "f" (broken) --> "double a" How can one do it?…
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