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How to print your IP address with Bash on Mac OSX in the terminal app.

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This one-liner will print the current LAN IP address of a machine running Macintosh OSX. jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2jason@. PWD: ~. -bash. 3.2.57. 10 $> ifconfig | grep "inet " | awk ‘FNR==2{print $2}’ 192.168.1.2 This is 10.14.2 (18C54), but this command … Read more

How to make your Linux desktop look like iOS easily. This looks very nice.

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There are some very nice themes out there to stylize your Linux desktop, the trendy Linux user may install a theme and make the Linux Gnome desktop look like iOS. This is very easy. iOS 10 theme for Gnome Shell and MATE. https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1220826/. Download this theme and place it under your ~/.themes folder. Then enable … Read more

Make Ubuntu Linux look like Macintosh OSX.

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Making Ubuntu look like Macintosh OSX is very simple, this theme I found is a very good recreation of the OSX Aqua theme. Download the theme like this. git clone https://github.com/B00merang-Project/OS-X-Leopard.gitgit clone https://github.com/B00merang-Project/OS-X-Leopard.git Then copy the OS-X-Leopard-master directory to your ~/.themes folder and use the preferences dialog in the MATE desktop to set the new … Read more

New Macintosh PC is very controversial. Top spec is 35,000 dollars?

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The new Macintosh machine is a very controversial beast. This is a very high specced machine for movie makers and other content creators. The GPUs use proprietary pci connectors to power them directly from the motherboard. This is actually a very good idea. I wish they could invent room temperature superconductors, then the machine could … Read more

Just upgraded to OSX Mojave.

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I have just upgraded a Macbook to OSX Mojave. This was very painless, and did not take very long at all. Upgrading a Macintosh machine is much easier than upgrading Windows 10, with all of the hassles and file deletion issues involved in that process. After the installation process, I had a new login screen, … Read more

Get information about your Macintosh machine using the command line.

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Get the current status of your battery with this command. deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" Battery Power: -8095 mW (-15.5 %/hr) Battery Power: -8034 mW (-15.6 %/hr) Battery Power: -6774 mW (-13.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -8080 mW (-15.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -7866 mW (-15.3 %/hr)deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" … Read more

Nice commands on Macintosh to keep track of network usage.

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The Mac OSX operating system has a lot of very useful commands for keeping track of network usage. Here is a very nice one. The nettop command. As you can see, this shows a constantly updating display of network usage on Mac. This is very useful for watching network throughput in real time. Especially, if … Read more

Get nice system information on Macintosh OS with the command line.

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Get information about apps installed on your Macintosh PC with the lsappinfo command. Use grep as shown below to find out information about a certain app, i.e Firefox in this case. deusexmachina:~ jason$ lsappinfo | grep Firefox 24) "Firefox" ASN:0x0-0x2a02a: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app" executable path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox" 26) "FirefoxCP WebExtensions" ASN:0x0-0x2c02c: bundle path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app" executable path="/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container" parentASN="Firefox" ASN:0x0-0x2a02a: (inferred) … Read more

Make the Linux MATE desktop look just like Mac OSX.

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There is a new theme set available on Gnome Look. This makes Linux look just like Macintosh OSX High Sierra. It is very high quality and well worth installing. The GTK3 theme: https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1537895905/s/a13d96c5494b48d7c715859105db2c5d/t/1537916795/u//Sierra-light.tar.xz. Icon theme: https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1524634947/s/a13d96c5494b48d7c715859105db2c5d/t/1537916795/u//MacOSX-icon-theme.tar.xz. Cursor theme: https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1517130771/s/a13d96c5494b48d7c715859105db2c5d/t/1537916795/u//MacOSX-cursors.tar.xz. A couple of Mac OSX wallpapers: https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1517131134/s/a13d96c5494b48d7c715859105db2c5d/t/1537916795/u//HighSierra-wallpapers.tar.xz. Unpack the GTK theme under the ~/.themes folder. And … Read more

How to use the command line to list password files on a Macintosh machine.

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How to list password files on a Macintosh OSX machine This is how to list the password files on a Macintosh OSX Mountain Lion machine. Newer Macintosh OSX machines do not use the /etc/shadow file link Linux does, so this is how the account passwords are stored. Homers-iMac:~ homer$ sudo ls -lah /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/ Password: total … Read more