Plugging in an external hard drive usually results in Spotlight indexing the contents – or just upgrading the index that already exists. This can be avoided by excluding the hard drive from being indexed under System...
Author - Gábor Hargitai
When installing Google Drive File Stream for macOS for the first time, you should see Loading your files within the app – along with the sudden realization that your fans spin up and something is running one core of your...
Consulting the official FFMPEG Compilation / Installation guide only tells us how to do a basic install of FFMPEG. For day to day encoding we would need some additional options enabled at compile time. Searching around lead me...
This means it’s time to get rid of i386 code, presumably within one of your dylib files. Open a terminal and issue the following: lipo -remove i386 yourlib.dylib -o yourlib_fixed.dylib Now you can preferably delete...
There are many ways to do this, but for me none of them worked as most of the time I simply ended up with an app bundle that crashes on start. I’ve successfully built the latest Dolphin with these steps. First, make...
A complex modification rule for Karabiner-Elements to change AltGr + j to í. Install Karabiner-Elements from here Click here to import the rule Alternatively, open Safari (or if that doesn’t work for some reason, then...
UPDATE FOR SIERRA 10.12.4 AND UP This only works on macOS versions prior to macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (16E195) as starting from this version it is necessary to disable the System Integrity Protection – this is not covered in...
Running lengthy operations (such as remote sync, video compression) is preferred to be done in a screen session: among other things, it enables you to do something else while your commands run in the background. For the most part...
Being on the road (or just away from your Time Capsule) for longer periods of time may cause a surprising dent on your free disk space counter. As time marches on, those who have Time Machine enabled will soon realize...
Doing automated backups is a must for every sysadmin worth its’ salt. If you happen to administer a smaller pool of servers/hosts it is more than likely that you have your backups tarballed and stored somewhere relatively...