01 Oct 2018
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Creating Bootable USB From ISO in MacOS
macOS High Sierra I needed to reinstall one of my Windows PCs at home recently, and realised that I only have Windows 7 …
macOS
26 Sep 2018
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How to List Disks and Partitions in MacOS
macOS High Sierra Not every Mac user is aware that we’ve got one of the truest Unix operating systems under the …
21 Sep 2018
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Hostname Info and Management With Hostnamectl
Use hostnamectl to view and update hostname metadata I’ve just realised that I have been managing hostnames the …
08 Sep 2014
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How to Get Started With Tmux
tmux Quite simply, tmux allows you to run multiple terminal command lines at the same time side by side much like …
04 Feb 2013
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How to Confirm Mac OS Version From Command Line
Just a very quick tip today, I stumbled upon this command a while ago and think it may be handy for someone learning the …
03 Mar 2010
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Mounting NFS Shares on Mac OS X
I’ve recently decided to give Mac OS X a try. For the past week or so I’ve been spending a good few hours a …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …