Category: Mac

Mac

iTerm2: How to unsplit a pane back to a tab or window

This morning I accidentally dragged an iTerm2 tab and created a split pane in one of my tabs. I searched for quite a while to find out how to move it back to its own tab. Finally, I found it at...

MacProgramming

Don’t be alarmed by super large VSIZE on OS X

(Also at https://github.com/urbancoding/jenx/issues/32) Don't freak out too much if 64-bit processes on OS X have a VSIZE of 10 GB or more. marca@SCML-MarcA:~$ cat macruby_test.rb print "What's your name? " name = gets.chop puts...

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brew install growlnotify-1.2.2 on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

The latest growlnotify in homebrew (1.3) fails on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), because it's a Lion-only binary. marca@SCML-MarcA:/usr/local$ growlnotify dyld: Symbol not found: _kSecRandomDefault Referenced from:...

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Easy access to TrueCrypt from the command-line in OS X

TrueCrypt on Mac OS X has a nice GUI, but if you're a command-line afficionado... Put this in your ~/.bashrc or similar file: alias truecrypt='/Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/Truecrypt --text' Then you can do stuff...

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My failed attempt at using autofs to automount TrueCrypt volumes on OS X

I was trying to make it as easy as possible to access our YNAB file which lives in an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. The idea was to have OS X autofs automount the TrueCrypt volume so that when YNAB starts and attempts to load our...

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How to build MacVim with Python 2.7

The first few times I tried building MacVim, it kept linking with the system Python. I wanted it to use my Python 2.7 install. I finally found the right incantation: ./configure --enable-rubyinterp=yes...

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Skype AppleScripts

These are some AppleScripts that I developed to make it easier to dial into a daily conference call. For this conference call, I dial into an 888 number and then I dial an 8 digit conference code and hit the '#' key to enter a...