Tag: MacOS

  • OSX turn off or delay hibernate

    Apple’s Mac OSX hibernate can be delayed indefinitely or turned off by issuing this terminal command. To get back to default normal hibernate mode type this terminal command. So the word is this won’t disable hibernate on battery failures. Haven’t tested, hope I won’t have to.

  • Here’s the source article http www frederico araujo…

    Here’s the source article: http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2011/07/30/installing-rails-on-os-x-lion-with-homebrew-rvm-and-mysql/ My goals here are to update an environment and move to a new Susy release: http://susy.oddbird.net/ 1. Install and upgrade XCode from the Mac App Store (4.3.2 in this case). Also install the Command Line Tools found in the Preferences pane. 2. Install Homebrew. Not entirely necessary, but I’m enjoying…

  • Mac OSX 10.6 Shell Script to Configure, Launch, and Shutdown Screen Sharing

    Apple’s MacOS has a tidy built in remote access client and service generically known as “Screen Sharing”. Yay! This works great for headless machines, testing servers, and annoying your spouse. The paranoid and performance conscious user may not want these services continuously running. Rogue services hanging out, listening, and waiting for some punk to probe…

  • My Reply to E-mail with Text File AppleScript

    At work I deal with a large volume of e-mail. There just aren’t enough people to handle all the e-mail requests or questions. When I have people to help handle e-mail, I still answer some of the same questions over and over and over. You just don’t want to know the volume or scope of…