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
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...
Back from Maui
We're back in town after a wonderful trip to Maui!
Pull request to allow supervisor to send arbitrary signals to processes
https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/pull/477 Let's you do stuff like: $ supervisorctl cat:0 RUNNING pid 57305, uptime 0:00:07 cat:1 RUNNING pid 57304, uptime 0:00:07 cat:2 RUNNING pid 57307, uptime 0:00:07 cat:3 RUNNING pid...
Check for modifications in a bunch of locally cloned git repos
Today's random tech tip of the day - how to check whether you have modifications in a bunch of different locally cloned git repos: ❯ for x in *; do echo $x ; ( cd $x; git status -s ); done contentsvc jobsvc M supervisor.conf...
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...