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Remove all the keys of the application’s preferences file from ~/Library/Preferences with Cocoa’s NSUserDefaults class.
2 756 posted 15 years ago by zingo
Place this in your ~/.bash_profile then type tab in your terminal window to see some magic happen.
0 663 posted 15 years ago by zingo
Using a gcc predefined macro, __DATE__, the code can know for itself when it was compiled, and build in an expiration date based on that value. The former code (http://snipplr.com/view/3448/kill-app-after-expire-date/) was not internationalised an...
5 887 posted 15 years ago by zingo
When installing mysql and mysql-dev with fink, gem is unable to find the mysql headers and libraries: you should specify their location. If compiled manually from source, gem will find it if /usr/local/mysql (or what ever other location you specified...
0 589 posted 15 years ago by iblis
1 594 posted 15 years ago by mikegreen
This can be used to test FS type.
1 778 posted 15 years ago by zingo
Note: most of these will be available to the shell and Rails' console too.
2 720 posted 16 years ago by cczona
1 592 posted 16 years ago by sou
recover to normal speed with /sbin/ipfw delete 100 /sbin/ipfw delete 200 ... or reboot
0 764 posted 16 years ago by zingo
This command will not delete the .DS_Store files from the file system, just take them out of version control. Before doing this it would be a good idea to setup the repository to ignore .DS_Store files.
1 1434 posted 16 years ago by jachin
0 842 posted 16 years ago by zingo
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2 739 posted 16 years ago by zingo
Macro to give an asl_log-like NSLog.
2 933 posted 16 years ago by zingo
When Apache under OS X throws 'Forbidden' errors on files under the ~/Sites path, and the error log report 'Permission denied: access to /somefile/blah failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path', check a missing Other E...
1 742 posted 16 years ago by cczona
A very dynamic and flexible bash prompt. Personally I find this to have everything needed. It shows exit status, shortens itself for long directories, and shows bash history for easy referencing. Hopefully it doesn't get messed up.
2 673 posted 16 years ago by robh
4 753 posted 16 years ago by zingo
A database table is basically an array of dictionary objects. As long as all the fields are valid property list types, you can loop through the array creating a managed object for each dictionary and setting the values. If you have an array con...
2 737 posted 16 years ago by zingo
0 540 posted 16 years ago by benpjohnson
After: sudo port -v selfupdate Update outdated ports with: sudo port upgrade outdated
1 669 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
After installing MacPorts, try running a selfupdate to grab all the latest MacPorts Portfiles (Portfiles contain information about how to install MacPorts software "ports"). You will need to run this command as an administrator, and it requires root...
0 562 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
[quote] Verbose booting shows you the actual process of Mac OS X's startup. You'll see drivers get loaded and services launch. This command should work on any recent (New World) Macintosh: sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v". The -v flag tells the s...
0 576 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
"...UNIX systems run scheduled maintenance routines — known as maintenance scripts — to clean up a variety of System logs and temporary files. By default, these are executed between 03:15 and 05:30 hours local time, depending on the script. If...
1 686 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
Prints content from an NSError or NSArray content from a managedObjectContext.
0 745 posted 16 years ago by zingo
List the current version and installation date of every application on a OS X system, using of Spotlight.
1 545 posted 16 years ago by zingo