How to detect non-Apple kernel extensions
My old Mac crashes a lot. I'm wondering if it's because of some bad third-party extension. Here's how to list non-Apple kernel extensions (kext's): kextstat | grep -v apple
Tag: Mac
New MacBook Pro Retina
Our new MacBook Pro Retina arrived while we were in Hawaii. Our old MacBook Pro was getting long in the tooth. It was a pre-unibody, 2007 model, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM, a 500 GB spinning disk drive, and OS X...
OS X Homebrew: Build FreeTDS from HEAD (gitorious)
Here's a pull request I just submitted to homebrew to make it possible to build FreeTDS from master on its gitorious repo: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/21309 Example of using it: $ brew install freetds --HEAD --universal...
Compiling a universal library
A note for my future self on how to compile a library as universal binary in Mac OS X. For a while, I've been getting warnings like these when building pymssql: ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib, file was...
Getting double-tap to drag working again in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion
Finally fixed one little thing that was annoying me on my work laptop with OS X 10.8.4. I couldn't double-tap to drag files or make selections. The fix is dead simple and it's from this CNET article: If you want to reactivate the...
What is up with Mail.app and Exchange?
Fired up Mail.app on my work laptop today for the first time in a while. Outlook 2011, OWA (the Outlook Web interface) and my iPhone all show the same state of my inbox, with a single message in it. Mail.app shows two messages -...
Using TextExpander to expand a sequence of OmniFocus tasks: A failed experiment
I recently got turned on to TextExpander by the Mac Power Users podcast. One of my ideas was to use snippets in OmniFocus to create certain repetitive multi-action sequences. For example, when a project involves emailing someone...