This is just a personal script to help me remember all the steps required to setup a new osx machine in their correct order. I do not advise you to follow this guide if you don't know what you're doing.
Make sure everything is up to date.
More info on how to download Command Line Tools inside XCode can be found on StackOverflow
Also remember to add the new ssh keys to old buddy Bitbucket
Run my personal setup script:
bash -c "`curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruyadorno/installme-osx/master/setup.sh`"Need to set the npm user:
npm adduser- Todoist
- Evernote
- Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, ...)
The next steps are mostly optional and I can work on them within some weeks of the initial setup.
8. Borrow a few OSX settings from mathiasbynens dotfiles
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# General UI/UX #
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# Disable the sound effects on boot
sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=" "
# Menu bar: show remaining battery time (on pre-10.8); hide percentage
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowPercent -string "NO"
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.battery ShowTime -string "YES"
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# Finder #
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# Finder: show hidden files by default
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
# Finder: show all filename extensions
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllExtensions -bool true
# Finder: show status bar
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true
# Finder: allow text selection in Quick Look
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true
# Disable the warning when changing a file extension
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false
# Enable snap-to-grid for icons on the desktop and in other icon views
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :DesktopViewSettings:IconViewSettings:arrangeBy grid" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :FK_StandardViewSettings:IconViewSettings:arrangeBy grid" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :StandardViewSettings:IconViewSettings:arrangeBy grid" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
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# Screen #
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# Save screenshots to the desktop
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location -string "$HOME/Desktop"
# Save screenshots in PNG format (other options: BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, TIFF)
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type -string "png"
# Disable shadow in screenshots
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
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# Address Book, Dashboard, iCal, TextEdit, and Disk Utility #
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# Use plain text mode for new TextEdit documents
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit RichText -int 0
# Open and save files as UTF-8 in TextEdit
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit PlainTextEncoding -int 4
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit PlainTextEncodingForWrite -int 4
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# Time Machine #
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# Prevent Time Machine from prompting to use new hard drives as backup volume
defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool true
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# Spotlight #
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# Hide Spotlight tray-icon (and subsequent helper)
#sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
# Disable Spotlight indexing for any volume that gets mounted and has not yet
# been indexed before.
# Use `sudo mdutil -i off "/Volumes/foo"` to stop indexing any volume.
sudo defaults write /.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration Exclusions -array "/Volumes"
# Change indexing order and disable some file types
defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \
'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "APPLICATIONS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "SYSTEM_PREFS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "DIRECTORIES";}' \
'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "PDF";}' \
'{"enabled" = 1;"name" = "FONTS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "DOCUMENTS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MESSAGES";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "CONTACT";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "EVENT_TODO";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "IMAGES";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "BOOKMARKS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MUSIC";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MOVIES";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "PRESENTATIONS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "SPREADSHEETS";}' \
'{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "SOURCE";}'
# Load new settings before rebuilding the index
killall mds
# Make sure indexing is enabled for the main volume
sudo mdutil -i on /
# Rebuild the index from scratch
sudo mdutil -E /source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
these take a while to download! so maybe do it on a separate day as a background process...
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
I'm using Vagrant to setup a few VMs locally for development.
The Ubuntu image takes ~2h to download since vagrant server is slow (~50Kb/s), might be faster to download the iso from the Ubuntu site and mount the image by yourself.
# Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bits
vagrant box add precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box