"Seriously, iTunes, does anyone still use you?" What do you use instead of itunes?
I do most of my listening on Spotify, that was the only reason for the jab. I've just given up on iTunes for my personal use.
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#12Where's the repository? I don't see it. Edit: I'm an idiot. I thought the title referred to a VCS repository.
Actually, the whole site is a repo hosted on Github Pages. If you'd like to contribute, feel free to do a pull request. https://github.com/whiskykilo/machacks.whiskykilo.com
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#13"This will download and install all updates available for your Mac: sudo softwareupdate -i -a" I'm assuming that it won't install App Store software that is in your account but not installed on the current machine? Which if so is a shame that Apple haven't exposed this via the command line (preferably specifying the name of the application to install).
You can actually specify the application as well, IIRC. I will verify all of that later this evening when I'm in a place to do it.
I've updated the site to include the details you were asking about. I was able to test it all on a OS X VM with great success. http://machacks.whiskykilo.com/hacks/app-store.html
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#14So far there's been a pull request and a few additional hacks merged in tonight! Thanks everybody!
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#15"Seriously, iTunes, does anyone still use you?" What do you use instead of itunes?
http://coppertino.com/ http://banshee.fm/ http://ncmpcpp.rybczak.net/ https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40721/winamp
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#16Cool stuff, lots of really good automation tricks that I haven't seen. I have a similar routine of doing a clean wipe every once in a while and wrote a bunch of scripts to make the process less painful.
One of the more useful ones is a small shell wrapper around homebrew cask that batches installation packages based on category, and one that automates symbolically linking dotfiles using a configuration file.
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#17Cool stuff, lots of really good automation tricks that I haven't seen. I have a similar routine of doing a clean wipe every once in a while and wrote a bunch of scripts to make the process less painful. One of the more useful ones is a small shell wrapper around homebrew cask that batches installation packages based on category, and one that automates symbolically linking dotfiles using a configuration file. https://…
Ok, but doing a clean wipe to just reload a backup from TimeMachine won't do any good since it'll restore all the cruft back, right?
Which leads me to my second point: How would you go finding all those still relevant dotfiles and folders for settings of programs you still want to use and, with wiping, removing all obsolete ones?
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#18A better way to handle these (in my opinion) is to use the Secrets.prefPane .. and the related website:
A much more comprehensive collection of tweaks and tips for OSX administration.. though I did learn a few things from WhiskyKilo which were quite interesting - I have wondered how to do this from the command line for years and am glad to have finally learned: "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" .. fantastic!
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#19"Seriously, iTunes, does anyone still use you?" What do you use instead of itunes?
I do most of my listening on Spotify, that was the only reason for the jab. I've just given up on iTunes for my personal use.
I've been trying to do it for years, but you've just tipped me over the edge .. off to buy a new hard drive to contain all my music, export from iTunes, delete ~/Music, and start again .. fresh .. as if it were 1999 all over again and all I have to do is organize my music folders manually again, just like I used to .. Pity there's no way to manage iOS apps outside of iTunes, though.
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#20Without delving much past the first page, it seems like Boxen would cover a lot of this territory? Boxen [1] is a puppet-based OS-X provisioning tool used by (among others) GitHub to set up new Macs in a hurry. It does take a little while to get configured and dialed in, but once it's set up, (re)provisioning a new Mac is almost fun.