One of my readers had a mysterious problem: the WordPress Editor was not showing up under Appearance or Plugins. It’s a handy tool for quick edits to any plugin or theme file, and I’ve relied on...
Learn MoreHidden files start with a . on UNIX like systems and OS X is one of them. While we can show hidden files in a Ternimal session by using something like ls -a, it’s not so easy to convince the Finder to...
Learn MoreParallels have announced this week that they’ve changed their name to brand cloud services from Parallels to Odin. This blog post has more details:...
Learn MoreThere are two ways I know of which will print the UUID of all disk drives attached to the current system: blkid /dev/sr0: UUID="2014-12-02-19-30-23-00" LABEL="CDROM"...
Learn MoreI passionately *H*A*T*E* the startup chime that my Mac makes when I switch it on. At least on my MacBook, if the volume is turned down before I shutdown, the system restarts silently. I guess it’s...
Learn MoreThere’s a built-in command line tool in every Mac called caffeinate that prevents your computer from going to sleep, even when the lid is closed. This is the default behaviour if an external monitor is...
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