Here is another example of Apple making things easy for average users and convoluted for more advanced users. Trying to set up git on MacOS, you have to run something like this early on: $ git config –global user.name “User Name” $ git config –global user.email “user@address.com” This should work, unless you installed Xcode some time before and forgotten all about…
A few tips to synchronize contacts between iOS, MacOS, Gmail and Outlook. Use Google as a common thread across platforms and devices GOSyncMod is a standalone utility on Windows to synchronize contacts between Outlook and Gmail. On iOS and MacOS, use a CardDAV account to synchronize your contact with Google. Once all lists are in sync with Google Contacts, these…
After some dusting up of my laptop hard drive, I ended up with about 80 gigabytes to clean up from the Trashcan. Using the MacOS interface was taking a long time. A very … long.. time. As in more than six hours and barely a dent in the volume of files to delete. The solution? Use the command line and…
It’s a familiar chain of installation: In order to install NLTK for a workshop about Natural Language Processing First you have to install Python, then install NLTK and dependencies, including Python Setup tools. Find out Numpy doesn’t compile because GCC is not available No worries, GCC is part of XCode tools, which requires a 3Gb download package (!) and signing…
So here I was, ready to enjoy my brand new Intuos 5 graphic tablet (received as an early birthday present). It was unwrapped, software and drivers installed, plugged into my machine… and nothing. No LED light indicating activity. No cursor. And of course, no touchpad. A quick look under the system logs indicated errors with ‘being able to enumerate the…
It’s official – video cards on a MacPro have a life span of about a year. A couple of days ago, my machine had another fit all to familiar : random crash with hyper-active fan turn on. A few days later, the issue happened again. I didn’t waste much time in troubleshooting this time. After a dusting and a disk…
I have gotten used to relying on accessing shared drives on my desktop machine from my laptop. Somehow, between OS upgrades, the default user name used to connect remotely changed from my usual account to ‘Guest’. I first started noticing this issue when file transfers from one machine to the other suddenly started returning several errors about insufficient access rights…
No random crash since the replacement of my video card a few months ago. Based on past observations, here is what I believe happened : 1- For some reason, the external USB drive I was using for my monthly offline snapshot backup caused random shutdowns. Looking at the logs, it seems most crashes happened right after a Time Machine backup…
My Macbook was sluggish, freezing for about two second every few minutes or so. It was especially bad with streaming videos. Turns out fragments of an old application (Desktoptopia) were causing a timout every few minutes. CleanApp took care of it beautifully.
Twice in the last two days, I found my desktop unresponsive. The second time also had the fans running wildly. So far, everything points to something causing the CPU to overheat. Coincidentally, I noticed the latest version of Chrome getting stuck with 100% CPU on my laptop, also running MacOS. Google searches [1] and [2] pointed to occasional reports of…