Remove CleanMyMac
Several months ago, I’ve installed an app called CleanMyMac. Big mistake. I didn’t like it much. I deleted it shortly after. The uninstall didn’t quite exactly remove everything. This morning, I...
View ArticleCan’t Empty The Trash Can
If you have trouble emptying the trash this morning, here’s a helpful tip. Your OS is essentially telling you the file is in use, but the application is close. Nothing like running rm -rf on the trash...
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Weather Report from the Terminal
Get the weather report right from your terminal. curl wttr.in Here’s the output.
View ArticleChange VIM Colors
Vim is a text editor. Edit the ~.vimrc # vim ~.vimrc colo desert syntax on
View ArticleAudacity on Catalina
If you’ve recently upgraded your Mac to Catalina or Mac OS 10.15.1, you may have noticed that Audacity is no longer working. To get it working, you’ll need to download version Audacity 2.3.3. However,...
View ArticleDisplay Sequential Write Throughput
Here’s a dd command to display sequential write throughput from the command line. time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mounted_backup_volume/zero.raw bs=1M count=512 status=progress Output is. 512+0 records in...
View ArticleLinux Format USB Drive
Here’s how to format a USB drive on Linux. Plug in the USB drive to see mount point. # scan for all drives df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 fuseblk 30G 66M 30G 1%...
View ArticleRunning MySQL commands from the Terminal
You can run MySQL commands from the terminal by using -e switch. Here are a few examples. mysql -u username -p -e "create database mydb" mysql -u username -p -e "use mydb" mysql -u username -p...
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