ramdisk.sh: This script creates a ramdisk with the first parameter taken as gigabytes. So runnning ./ramdisk.sh 16 will create a disk with 16 gigabytes and it will be named “ramdisk-16gb” and accessible via /Volumes/ramdisk-16gb. It will show up in finder as mounted volume. To get rid of it simply unmount it with the small icon […]
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Get the name as displayed in HyperV of the VM you want to stop and then run:
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I’m using homebrew and its casks a lot to install software on my MacBook. This way I’m using a custom script comparable to a simple apt update && apt dist-upgrade on a Linux sysmtem. My update script looks like the following: Running this keeps most of my system up to date. I only have a
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Create a signature in the settings and add some placeholder text. Then close the mail client. The placeholder text will be replaced with html later. You will need the html code you want to use as signature. So have it ready to paste it later. Got to ~/Library/Mail/V10/MailData/Signatures and check which of the .mailsignature files
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Many years ago I registered coffeebeans.at and used it for various things. Right now I’m consolidating everything behind mbo.dev. You should be able to find everything from blog.coffeebeans.at behind blog.mbo.dev now. The old pages should automatically redirect to the new location. If you have any issues with the redirect or somethind doesn’t work anymore, please
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Recently I received this error while upgrading or uninstalling blackhole-2ch via brew: Could not kickstart service “com.apple.audio.coreaudiod”: 1: Operation not permitted This was fixed by the following: Another option seems to be to fix the issue with kickstart as described here. But I didn’t try that.
Are you looking for a cleaner alternative to managing dependencies in your Spring projects? While the Spring Dependency Management Gradle Plugin offers convenience, it may sometimes lead to issues such as transitive dependency conflicts. Enter the version catalog—a more streamlined solution. Let’s dive into how you can replace the Spring Dependency Management Gradle Plugin with
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Keeping original PSD files was quite good practice over the years but mostly other formats are needed down the road. Because opening Photoshop to export a file takes quite some time and isn’t efficient I wrote a small script to replace this task: This takes the file(s) to convert as argument(s). You can also just
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Sometimes I need to lookup process that hold a port open. On Linux this is quite easy but on Mac I was struggling to find a proper way. Here is the netstat variant you can use on Mac: Replace the 8080 with the wanted port. You will see a line like this: The 54876 is
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To disable this annoying advertisement in your shell simply run This will add .bak to the end of the file and should survive updates.
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