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macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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Setup Mac OS X

I've done the same process every couple years since 2013 (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, Catalina) and I updated the Gist each time I've done it.

I kinda regret for not using something like Boxen (or anything similar) to automate the process, but TBH I only actually needed to these steps once every couple years...

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#!/bin/bash

# A cleaner alternative to this approach, but which requires a restart, is to populate TCC's SiteOverrides.plist inside
# the TCC app support directory with the following:
# <?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>Services</key>
# 		<dict>

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// To my knowledge the only solution available that:
// - does not require an API key with "elevated access" (most other solutions need this, requires an application)
// - does not require an API key with "essential access" (requires a valid cell phone number to enable)
// - does not require any type of API key
// - isn't outdated or otherwise broken
//
// Can (probably) download up to 3200 tweets
//
// brew install go
// go run download_all_tweets.go

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#    Copyright 2014 Chris Cohen
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

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Restoring an utterly destroyed DFSR-replicated SYSVOL from backup

Warning: this is not official Microsoft documentation and some of these steps might not actually be supported.

This guide is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability arising from, out of or in connection with applying the steps outlined in this guide.

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## Setting ErrorAction
$ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue" # Progress bar can significantly impact Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet performance, see issue: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/2138

## Module Import
Import-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive
## Setting Variables
####$path = Split-Path -Parent $PSCommandPath
$path = 'c:\temp'
$mobileSdk = 'ovr_sdk_mobile_1.23.zip'
$mobileSdkFolder = [io.path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension("$mobileSdk")

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<NotepadPlus>
    <UserLang name="LogFile" ext="log">
        <Settings>
            <Global caseIgnored="yes" />
            <TreatAsSymbol comment="no" commentLine="no" />
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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jonathanweinberg on github.
• I am jonathanweinberg (https://keybase.io/jonathanweinberg) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASC41soqfFwQ3bT4sCQQhHgirBZLwgJ5Vqp6LoZFiIT0cwo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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# The script captures console screen buffer up to the current cursor position and returns it in HTML format. 
# 
# Returns: UTF8-encoded string. 
# 
# Example: 
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