Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc.
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Firefox — cannot remove cookies
I've tried the suggestions from related questions but the problem persists.
First noticed with Firefox version 20 - upgraded today to Firefox 21 - still cannot clear cookies.
Selecting gmail or ...
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Display website as screensaver
How can I make my screensaver, in OSX Mountain Lion, to display a website?
Not a static one, a dynamic, changing website that uses HTML5.
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Bootcamp OSX does not load
I have MacBook Pro with and run Bootcamp with Windows 7 on it. After some problems with partitioning of the disk I ended up in situation when I can only load Windows 7 but don't have any option to ...
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Caption style in word
I would like to add a table of figures in my documents ... I did this successfully
Now I want to make the caption that appear in the TOF shorter than the original captions
Some time I have 2 lines ...
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Bootcamp Win7 partition does not load
I am running Mac OS X and Bootcamp with Windows 7. I needed to have read/write access to data on Windows partition. Therefore I have created one more partition using Disk Utility.
The resulting ...
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bash execution time in milliseconds (mac osx user)
I've checked this , but the solution provided did not work for me.
Using date I can get the execution time in seconds:
T="$(date +%s)"
#some work here
T="$(($(date +%s)-T))"
echo "execution time ...
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Upgrade to SSD without Re-installing OS [duplicate]
I have a MacBook Pro with a 750 GB HDD and am planning to upgrade to a 240 GB SSD.
I know with Windows if you have 2 hard drives you can do a sector by sector copy if your new drive is larger than ...
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Send as someone else - Mac Outlook 2011
We have the need to send as someone else (preferably a group) in Mac Outlook 2011.
I can do this very easily in "normal" Outlook, but have no idea how to do it in Mac Outlook. I've granted the "send ...
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SelfControl and Antisocial Apps not working
I used to use Antisocial, until I noticed today that it wasn't working when I habitually tried to go onto Facebook. I then tried to download other software to do the same job, including SelfControl, ...
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Leaving the controls visible in VLC
I am using VLC to show video's on the external screen.
But as I cannot see that screen I want to have the controls (with the time etc.) on my normal laptop screen so I know how much time there is ...
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Mac OS mc FTP to machine [^]
I use Mac OS X. mc was installed from ports. Mouse is not supported in mc. I try to connect to FTP server.
fn + F9.
Chose Right, than FTP Link... .
In the "Enter machine name (F1 for details)" there ...
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CentOS/OSX - VLC rtsp url does not work on CentOS, but on OSX
I am really new in streaming.
I have a rtsp protocol url for ts(Trans Stream) file.
When I use this rl via VLC on OSX, it works nice.
I can get movie with audio, but when I try same thing on ...
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Easiest way to run a command with admin privileges as a standard user in OS X
Situation:
I'm running OS X 10.8.3 and i have 2 users, an Admin user and a Standard user. When i'm logged in as the standard user and i need to run a command with admin privileges in the terminal i ...
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Best synchronization tool for UNIX
I often find myself working on an out-dated version of a document, because I previously edited it on my MacBook and now I'm on my Mac Pro.
I'm looking for a tool to help me synchronize this as ...
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Is it possible to replace Forticlient with the native Mac OSX networking tools to connect to a VPN?
Because I don't like FortiClient software, it installs a daemon running all times, and I just really want to run the app when I do need to connect to the VPN (once a month), not really have it use ...
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ImageMagick Convert: How to produce sharp resized PNG files from SVG files?
I am using this command to generate a sharp 512px wide version of an SVG file that I have:
convert -geometry 256 pinterest.svg pinterest.png
This is the source file:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Generate TTF font preview for multiple files
Having number of TTF fonts I would like to generate preview without installing them with custom text for each font say 1 font per line in any format ( pdf, jpg, etc ). So I would view them once. I am ...
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Previous version of CGAL with Macports: “Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file”
I'm trying to install a previous port of cgal with macports. I'm following this How-to:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort
I already read this answer but it didn't solve for me. ...
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Play sound on mac terminal
I have a script running in the background and sends me an alert every few minutes. I want the alert to be in the form of a beep.
Question: How can I play a beep in mac terminal?
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In OS X, how to power detach screen
I'm not sure what's up here.
I just switched to mac, which I'm liking but I can't seem to power detach my screen sessions
On other unix systems, I do this:
screen
[now I'm in a screen session]
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Importing certificates with gpgsm: pinentry is not displayed
I recently installed GnuPG 2.0.19 to use GPGME with mutt (1.5.21).
gpg-agent.conf has
log-file /Users/jan/gpg-agent.log
debug-level guru
debug 1024
verbose
lc-ctype UTF-8
keep-tty
keep-display
and ...
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iPhoto Library: Remove its package-status?
[related to this question]
I want to access this folder:
/Users/me/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters
but Picasa cannot find it because it's in a "package."
How can I make it not a package?
Will ...
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How can I set up a local SOCKS5 proxy whose only purpose is to chain to an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy — on OS-X?
For access to certain resources, I use an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy which runs on a remote server. For various reasons, I don't want to use that proxy system-wide, only with specific applications.
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Can I create a symlink or similar that returns a random file from a set every time?
Say I have files foo-a.wav, foo-b.wav and foo-c.wav on disk.
I have a piece of software whose interface allows me to enter the name of a single sound file; every time a certain feature of that ...
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How to install htop on osx using brew?
I am trying install htop using brew:
➜ ~ brew install htop
Error: You must `brew link autoconf' before htop-osx can be installed
than I am doing
brew link autoconf
Linking ...
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How can I install mediafilesegmenter for OS X?
I am a member of the Mac Developer Program, so I can download the Tools.
I go to the site: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action and I download MakeRefMovie 2.2.1.
After the download I ...
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Mac OS 10.8.3 Lion vmware virtual machine doesn't detects darwin.iso file to install VmTools?
I just installed MacOS 10.8.3 Lion in a vmware virtual machine, and I want to install Xcode but when I get to the CD/DVD IDE settings and select the darwin.iso file to install vmTools and click ...
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Using a Windows Keyboard with a MacBook… and TeamViewer
I have what appears to be a rather unique problem:
I do all of my work on my MacBookPro because it's very powerful. However, since I commute to and from school by bicycle, I don't want to risk ...
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Why are YouTube videos having so much trouble?
I am getting sick and tired of this. Youtube, in my browser, Google Chrome 26.0.14.1065, on my MacBook Pro, is running so slowly. I am at the point where I can download a 10 min video before it loads ...
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Lots of AlbumArt_{*} files in my Music folder
I have recently migrated over my files from Windows to Mac OS and have noticed that my Music folder contains many AlbumArt_{*}.jpg files.
First of all I would like to know where these files are ...
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Open file in local text editor from within an SSH connection
I'm not a vim guy. I'd like to be able to open log files in Sublime Text when in an SSH connection from within Terminal. Is there a way I could do this? I'm thinking there must be a command or ...
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pf.conf errors on Mac OS 10.7.4
I have been trying to configure my pf.conf for a while now - I am having so much trouble and it won't load because of the order. I have switched the order around a lot and looked to example files for ...
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How to enable Flash from local filesystem on Chrome + OS X
I'm running Chrome on OS X Mountain Lion. I have an HTML file I'm testing on my local file system, which uses Cytoscape to create visualizations.
I followed the Cytoscape tutorial here, but the Flash ...
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How to access Flash global security settings on OS X Mountain Lion?
To access the settings manager, I followed the instructions here.
System Preferences -> Other -> Flash Player
Now I want to access the global security settings, in order to enable Flash to ...
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Comment bundle in Textmate 2 produces errors
I'm very fond of TextMate's "Comment Line/Selection" bundle, which lets me use ⌘-/ to comment or un-comment highlighted lines. Recently, however, when I use that key combination, I get this error:
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Xrandr on osx not recognising screens
in relation to this question, I'm using the xrandr command in osx to perform operations on my external monitors. Unfortunately it does not appear to be recognising external montitors at all:
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Mac OSX, Lates Java and Mac Software. JDK Not Working
I downloaded JDK, and when I attempted to open it says
The following disk images could not be opened: jre=7u21-macosx-x64.dmg, Reason: Not recognized
I tried uninstalling and redownloading, ...
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macbookPro Slows down to half of its processing power
I have a macbook pro 2010 made, core2duo, 4 gb ram and i m running Mountain Lion on it.
before few days I was playing 8 ball pool on browser suddenly my system was crashed and shut him self down.
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Large video/file cache for Google Chrome (OS X)
Normally, cached files in Chrome are stored under ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chromehowever, apparently, when files exceed a certain size (allegedly 50 MB) they are stored elsewhere.
Nobody seems to ...
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How to proxy shared internet
Using Wireshark, I need to sniff some traffic on my mobile device. I've set up my Mac to share my Ethernet connection to computers using Wi-Fi, and then I set my mobile device to connect to that wifi.
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What makes linux able to run on so many types of hardware? [closed]
I'm curious about what allows Linux to be so much more versatile than other OSes. According to the newbies section on www.linux.com, Linux can:
run on notebook computers, desktop computers, ...
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A “friend” changed Shift+Return to Caps Lock+Return. How can I change it back? [closed]
My friend convinced me to allow him to change some of my key bindings.
Friend: "How often do you use Caps Lock?"
Anyway, now when I want to perform a newline without submitting a form, I have to do ...
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What is the safe way to remove System Library Framework
I'm new to OS X, and I need to get rid of one of the libraries under /System/Library/Frameworks.
I know I cannot just remove the directory, because there are symbolic links to its binaries from ...
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Emacs fullscreen on Mountain Lion without Toolbar
The newest version (24.3) of Emacs.app includes support for Mountain Lion's fullscreen. However, even after disabling the toolbar (tool-bar-mode 0), the space for the toolbar is not used by Emacs, it ...
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How do I shut up bogus connection alert in Lion?
I constantly get this error message on my laptop when I'm away from work (e.g. at home):
There was a problem connecting to the server «work.server».
It is possible that the server does not exist or ...
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Does this Terminal output indicate a that a keylogger has been installed on this Mac? [closed]
A friend is concerned that a keylogger has been installed on their machine, a Mac running MacOS 10.7.
I have the following Terminal output. Do any of you spot any indication of keylogging apps ...
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os x 10.6.8 sudden wi-fi problems (no recent upgrade)
MacBook pro, os x 10.6.8 for many months. No recent OS changes. Connected easily @ home & different location this morning. Suddenly no connection @ 3rd location. Back home now, connected on ...
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Mac Error Code -108
I began working on a project in Digital Performer 8.03 yesterday. When I went back to it today, the file would not open and produced the error message: "The application 'Digital Performer' can't be ...
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File shows different size after copying to another directory
I used cp -rP <dir name> <new dir name> to copy the contents of a directory, including permissions etc from one dir to another. The odd thing is, either du is giving me some strange ...
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osx - Keyboard shortcut to cycle between Preview windows
cmd+' cycles between windows for every app but Preview, is there any other way to configure this?
ctrl+F4 does cycle through Preview, but I would like to cycle only through Preview windows, as cmd+' ...
