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@nelstrom
nelstrom / access-control-lists-on-osx.md
Last active December 9, 2023 23:29
Setting ACL on OS X

I have two user accounts set up on my mac. User drew I use for most things, but if I'm making a screencast I'll switch to the demo user. I know that the demo user has a clean desktop, and the font size is larger than usual in my terminal and text editors, making everything a bit more legible when capturing the screen. When I record a screencast as the demo user, I save the file to /Users/Shared/screencasts. As I understand it, the /Users/Shared directory is supposed to be accessible to all user accounts on the mac. If I created and saved a screenflow document as the demo user, I should be able to read and write that file when logged in as user drew.

That was the theory, but it didn't always work out that well in practice. I would occasionally find that a directory was only writable by one user or the other. Perhaps I'd open a screenflow document as user drew and attempt to export the video to the same directory, only to find that the directory was owned by demo, meaning that I couldn't cr

@kaloprominat
kaloprominat / macos: manage add list remove login items apple script
Last active April 11, 2024 23:22
macos: manage add list remove login items apple script
# applescript
# add login item
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make login item at end with properties {name: "Notes",path:"/Applications/Notes.app", hidden:false}'
# delete login item
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "itemname"'
# list loginitems
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get the name of every login item'
@L422Y
L422Y / osx_automount_nfs.md
Last active May 10, 2024 09:06
Automounting NFS share in OS X into /Volumes

I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out automounts of NFS shares in OS X...

Somewhere along the line, Apple decided allowing mounts directly into /Volumes should not be possible:

/etc/auto_master (see last line):

#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master # Use directory service

#requires -Version 3.0
<#
.SYNOPSIS
My Veeam Report is a flexible reporting script for Veeam Backup and
Replication.
.DESCRIPTION
My Veeam Report is a flexible reporting script for Veeam Backup and
Replication. This report can be customized to report on Backup, Replication,
@Bouke
Bouke / gist:10454272
Last active September 22, 2023 17:23
Install FreeTDS, unixODBC and pyodbc on OS X

First, install the following libraries:

$ brew install unixodbc
$ brew install freetds --with-unixodbc

FreeTDS should already work now, without configuration:

$ tsql -S [IP or hostname] -U [username] -P [password]
locale is "en_US.UTF-8"

locale charset is "UTF-8"

Last updated: 2017-03-18

Searching for Files

Find images in a directory that don't have a DateTimeOriginal

exiftool -filename -filemodifydate -createdate -r -if '(not $datetimeoriginal) and $filetype eq "JPEG"' .

###Output photos that don't have datetimeoriginal to a CSV### Note this can take a long time if you have a lot of jpgs

@kevinelliott
kevinelliott / osx-10.10-setup.md
Last active December 1, 2023 08:21
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Setup

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.10 Yosemite running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

Install Software

@gregneagle
gregneagle / gist:01c99322cf985e771827
Created January 20, 2015 18:16
Using CFPreferences in Python to set a complex preference
import plistlib
import CoreFoundation
from Foundation import NSDate, NSMutableArray, NSMutableDictionary
# read the current ManagedPlugInPolicies
policy = CoreFoundation.CFPreferencesCopyAppValue("ManagedPlugInPolicies", "com.apple.Safari")
if policy:
# policy is an immutable dict, so we have to make a mutable copy
my_policy = NSMutableDictionary.alloc().initWithDictionary_copyItems_(policy, True)
@scriptingosx
scriptingosx / ActiveDirectory_Generic.mobileconfig
Created January 28, 2015 17:33
Active Directory Configuration Profile
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PayloadContent</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>ADAllowMultiDomainAuth</key>
<true/>
<key>ADAllowMultiDomainAuthFlag</key>
@vsouza
vsouza / .bashrc
Last active April 9, 2024 05:27
Golang setup in Mac OSX with HomeBrew. Set `GOPATH` and `GOROOT` variables in zshell, fish or bash.
# Set variables in .bashrc file
# don't forget to change your path correctly!
export GOPATH=$HOME/golang
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin