I really would like to learn to use the console and terminal on my macs-do any of you know of a good manual, book or otherwise that could serve as a guide? I am hesitant to simply fumble around and learn that way (which is how I've learned everything else) because it is my understanding that one can do serious damage when playing around in terminal!
View 11 RepliesI am losing my mind taking apart my old dead emac to get the hard drive out. I put this off too long but I need something off of it TODAY no matter what. It has been taken apart (well the case is off)....I know it's in the middle somewhere but I cannot find a damn service manual online.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI just found out about these two code for the terminal app from this article.
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Does anyone have any others that they know of?
I'm starting my career in networking configuration (basically configuring routers & switches) and need advice on a good serial terminal app. Since Terminal that ships w/ Mac OS X doesn't deal w/ serial ports, I've had to resort to using apps like Zterm & QuickTerm. Both of those haven't been updated in years, and they don't really have a "Mac OS X"-ey GUI goodness about them.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to install some software, however, every time I try to do the "make" command on a Makefile, I get the following error: -bash: make: command not found. The manual page does not exists either. I have no idea why the "make" command doesn't exists. I might have added a missing command in the past, but I don't remember. I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.7. Can anyone guess what the problem is?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use the date command in Terminal on multiple machines that are synced via NTP to synchronize some code in a program. Essentially I am running a program...
MyProgram with arguments:date
I can get date to give me the seconds since the Unix epoch with the %M specifier.
Anybody see this before? I opened up Terminal.app and the window is completely blank. There is nothing in it whatsoever. Looks as if bash never started. The title bar simply says "Terminal — login — 80x24". I can type whatever I want in the Terminal window like it's a text document and nothing happens. If I restart the computer, this seems to fix the problem, but it seems to only be a temporary fix as the issue happens again soon after.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to do something in terminal, and it asks for my password. I press a letter on my keyboard, and nothing appears. I am in the right window and everything, terminal just doesn't react to my typing. However, when I click enter, it says 'Sorry,try again'. So it does react to the enter key.
I'm running Symantec Backup Agent on our mac osx server. I start the agent in the terminal (./agent.be). It returns a notification that it started the service, however, it doesn't return to the prompt. Closing the terminal gives a warning that the process will be closed if the terminal is closed. Closing it does kill the process. Ctrl+c to return to the prompt also kills the process. So it's as if once the process is started in the terminal, nothing can be altered.
I am not much of a mac guy so please forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Anyone have any advice on how to handle this so the process is ALWAYS running?
I'm on a standard user account and I would really like to install icalbuddy which is a terminal app. When I install apps normally I simply have to provide a admin name and pw, but this doesn't work when it is a terminal app because it requires that the 'su' command be run.
So I thought that I could run terminal as admin through 'su - admin' and then install. But of course the admin account doesn't have access to the user folder where the installer is located. I just can't win.
ver. 10.7.3: 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo with 4 GB of DRAM. I have three questions: 1. Where can I find the manual for my machine i.e. hardware manual and or consumer/connaisseur manual? 2. Does it have a zip media drive? I'm looking at the left side of the machine and I see small square shaped slot for a disk of this sort. I know this is a common type of media storage for cameras and would like to confirm that it is zip. 3. And while i'm at it, could you remind me of the uses of the two ports advancing towards the back of the computer next to the USB inputs.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm having a strange problem with sleeping my Mac Mini. If i let the computer automatically sleep then the 2 external drives spin up and down continuously. If i sleep manually ( > Sleep) then no such problems occur. The drives spin down, and stay down. Any ideas as to why this happens and how to make automatic sleep replicate manual sleep? why are they not identical?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI would like to print a copy of my Nikon D90 instruction manual which is saved as a PDF.
I'm trying to figure out how I can print a booklet using the least amount of paper. My logic was to have two pages to one piece of paper. My printer cannot do automatic duplex so I would have to print using odds and then evens.
Therein lies my problem � if I am printing odds it'll turn out that Page 1 & 3 are printed onto one page together.
So how would I go about printing Pages 1&2 and then 5&6 etc and then when I do the manual duplex it would Pages 3&4 and 7&8 etc
I'm not sure if I'm making sense but hope someone can help � it's 300 pages which I could then print on 75 pages.
I have a Brother HL-2170W which allows for manual feed duplex (that's too hard with 300 pages) or using the odds and evens method.
I have tried to find a service repair manual on the web for the MacBook Pro, but to no avail.
Where can I find this document; IBM's website has all these docs, but to my knowledge apple does not.
Second, do any of you know of an outlet repair person that sells MacBook Pro service parts (i.e. for those of us without warranty....)
I am looking for a PDF of the Applecare service manual for the 15" mid-2009 Macbook Pro (specifically the 2.66ghz version).tell me where I can find one?
Or better yet, does anyone have a copy of the PDF that they could send to me?
I'm a newbie to the forum, but have been playing with my used G5 and its wonderful graphics software the last 3 maintenance-free years. Anyone have a service manual for a G5 with dual 2.7 early 2005? or reasonable close?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just got this Refurb MacBook Pro 15in. 2.66Ghz 32GB HDD and 512MB NVIDIA GFX. And my computer went into sleep mode and when I plugged it back in I had to do a manual reboot because the mouse wouldn't move.. So, I turned it back on let it die to see if it would happen again, and then the computer didn't even go to sleep mode.. What is going on? What should I do?
View 7 Replies View RelatedEarlier I was thinking I would manually backup all of my data, do a "clean" install of Snow Leopard, and reinstall all of my apps.
I'm now wondering if just doing a clean install and restoring from Time Machine is the way to go. I want to clear out as much "junk" as I can... will this do the trick?
Also, I've deleted a bootcamp partition, will the Time Machine method effectively defrag my HD?
In preferences, I set safari to clear my downloads manually but it still clears it automatically. I've already tried reinstalling Safari 4 but the problem just cropped up again a week later.
Is this a virus or something?
Eagerly awaiting my ship date for a new iMac (having been burned by two models with screen problems at the end of last year... another story). But I face three choices when it arrives to replace my trusty MB.
1. Use Migration Assistant to bring over apps, files, my library or everything.
2. Restore from my most recent Time Machine backup.
3. Manually re-install my apps and simply move across my files and folders.
Does anyone know whether there's any benefit to the "cleaner" option 3? Is there any difference between 1 and 2? I feel instinctively that my prinstine Snow Leopard-powered iMac would be better off for the minimalist option, but if there are no concrete advantages, I'll let Time Machine take the strain.
manual eject doesn't work either!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Is there a command line interface manual?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to only receive new email either once per hour or better still manually (once or twice during the day at a time chosen by me). That way I won't be bombarded with emails all day and can get on with my work.
So, I set the 'check for new messages' to 'manually'. Nevertheless I get email coming in frequently. Possibly every time I send an email, it also checks for new incoming mail (I'm not sure but that's my hunch).
How can I stop Mail from pulling in my new incoming email? Any answers to this? If I can't figure this out or it's not possible in Apple Mail, it might be time to switch (but I don't want to!)
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just bought my parents, who live in Korea, an airport extreme and an iPad. They have a Windows computer and I just want to get them set up so my mom can play with the iPad.Can anyone help me find Korean instructions for setting up the airport extreme, setting a password, and itunes install?I can't read Korean so I need some help from you guys to get the right directions.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I launch an app to do some video editing, does the MBP automatically switch to the higher-end graphics card? Or do I have to manually switch from "better battery life" to "higher performance"?
View 5 Replies View Relatedcan't update lion or snow from the updater nor from manual downloads.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I got some mac`s at the office, and I want make a best practices manual for my users, like, please open the clip to attach the file intead of drag and drop, beacuse the pc users see the photo embedded into the message body.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6)
i duno what to do now after i install the update combo 10.6.5 my pc restart and stop sign appeared now my imac is so useless
View 3 Replies View Relateddoes anybody know how I could export my manually ordered photos from an iPhoto album in a way that would make the output files have names like 1.jpg, 2.jpg... instead of the original ones, so my friends could see them in correct order when just viewing them in Windows Explorer?
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