My Little Pocket Universe
Traditionally, on *nix systems, cron (or one of its derivatives) is used. It’s possible to use cron on the Mac, but it’s deprecated. launchd is the preferred method. The set up is a little more complex because it’s a bit of XML code, but it’s very straightforward. See the launchd.plist man page or the launchd … Read more
This is a simple, but useful one. If you hate ADs as much as I do, this is a quick solution that gets rid of most of the advertisements in the Apple News app on the Mac. All you have to do is add/modify a line in your /etc/hosts and send traffic for news.iadsdk.apple.com into … Read more
If you use a Mac and create SAMBA shares on linux hosts, you’re bound to find lots of .DS_Store files. They are, in and of themselves, harmless; they just store custom window information for the MacOS Finder. But if you prefer to have that information not saved rather than finding those files, you can prevent … Read more
Add the following to the global section: min protocol = SMB2 ea support = yes vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr acl_xattr fruit:appl = yes fruit:metadata = stream fruit:model = MacSamba fruit:veto_appledouble = no fruit:posix_rename = yes fruit:zero_file_id = yes fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes fruit:locking = netatalk In the individual shares if you want … Read more