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macports no indexes found, sync your source indexes
If you’re a Mac Poweruser and not already familiar with macports, this is great package I would highly recommend, especially if you’re a bit of a *nix terminal junkie. Download and installation is a breeze. Click on the link for the dmg relative to your distro and it’s smooth sailing. Once it’s installed however, you…
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Mac Sudo Password
Note: “Sudo” is short for “Substitute User Do” or “Superuser Do” This may come as a shock if you’re new to Mac and ever used a *nix system before.. but the sudo password, is your password! If you’re administrator anyway, if not, ask your *rents, instructor or local admin to help you out. 😉 /etc/sudoers…
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vi keyboard shortcuts Quick Reference
Never know when those quick reference bookmarks might point to dead links, usually when you need it most! For this reason, I’ve consolidated a quick list from the link below and removed ads and unwanted formatting for a little cleaner html table (no offense keyxl) and easier copying by you. For your future reference, and…
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Mac OS X Quick Reference
After writing multiple articles on a single subject, I decided to consolidate the links into a single point of reference. All links below are internal to my site and do not redirect outside of my blog. (Tested on 10.6 Leopard.) enable root user, or mac sudo password and settings, https://ronniediaz.com/2011/04/14/mac-sudo-password/ install macports and/or issues with…
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Open TextEdit from command line on Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard
I found other articles online which mention editing ~/.bash.rc and ~./bash_profile but these are more work than necessary. Simply use: However, I noticed this functionality has some limitations concerning the files edited. After trying the following commands on a secure file, it still would not save after making changes. If you run into this issue…
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