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    • watson Reference

      watson Reference

      The content details the use of the watson command-line tool for tracking work hours on Oracle Enterprise Linux and macOS. It provides commands for recording sessions, restarting projects, stopping ongoing sessions, managing projects, and displaying past sessions. Sample session durations and project tags are given, illustrating the tool’s functionality.

    • Streamline Banking Documents: Smart Rules in DEVONthink

      Streamline Banking Documents: Smart Rules in DEVONthink

      The author advocates for automating document management in light of increasing digital artifacts. They highlight risks of poor tracking and propose using DEVONthink for better organization. A specific use case involves creating a ‘Smart Rule’ to automatically sort bank documents by date for archiving, enhancing efficiency and accessibility.

    • User maintenance on macOS

      User maintenance on macOS

      List all User Accounts will return an output as: Show a User Account Information $ /usr/bin/dscl . -read /Users/<USER_ACCOUNT> So, the command: will return: … Follow the command to Delete a User Account $ sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete /Users/<USER_ACCOUNT>

    • Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

      Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.… Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

    • What to do when a process uses too much CPU

      What to do when a process uses too much CPU

      The spinning beachball, a juddery interface, and fans running full pelt: what’s CPU doing in Activity Monitor, and what should you do about it? What to do when a process uses too much CPU

    • Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

      Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

      Is that Mac completely dead due to a severe failure, or could it just be in DFU mode? They aren’t easy to distinguish on most Macs. Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

    • SQLcl: Customizing on a Mac

      SQLcl: Customizing on a Mac

      In this post I will summarize the steps I’ve taken to customize SQLcl on my Mac working environment. We assume that the reader is familiar with the procedures outline din my previous post on SQLcl on setting up SQLcl on Mac environment. Terminal customization First I start with changing the terminal a bit in order…

    • SQLcl: Setup on a Mac

      SQLcl: Setup on a Mac

      Simple and straightforward steps about how to setup Oracle’s new SQL command line tool on a macOS X environment. Download Application and Environment Setup Attempt to start the application: Setup Java Download Java from the Oracle site. As I am on a mac wit M processor (ARM) , I cannot install jre-8u371-macosx-x64.dmg, so I cannot…

    • Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

      Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

      An update users didn’t know about might have installed a security tool they don’t know about, whose reports they can’t see. Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

    • Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

      Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

      hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1. Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

    • BUG? Oracle SQL Developer cannot access files on mac OS X

      BUG? Oracle SQL Developer cannot access files on mac OS X

      I used Oracle SQL Developer for years until recently (possibly after the upgrade to macOS 12.6.5?) when the SQL Developer stopped being able to access the files stored locally: The software does not prompt for access at start-up, not after the upgrade nor if I delete the fully the ./sqldeveloper/ directory. The solution seems to…

    • How to install Homebrew on Mac OS (brew command) – nixCraft

      Explains how to install Homebrew on mac OS or Mac computer to easily install open-source CLI & development tool using the brew command., — Read on www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-homebrew-on-macos-package-manager/