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: OS X
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...
Easier way to build _bsddb for OS X
I blogged previously about how to build _bsddb for Python 2.6 by hacking the Python source code to accommodate changes in berkeley-db. Here's an easier way that doesn't require hacking source code. Install berkeley-db using...
Building _bsddb for Python 2.6 on OS X 10.8.5
It's well-known that the Python that comes with OS X machines typically doesn't have _bsddb. I downloaded Python 2.6.8 and attempted to build it and it wouldn't build the _bsddb module. Here's what I did to fix this. I used...
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...