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Remove unwanted formatting from text in the clipboard: alias pbclean='pbpaste | pbcopy'
Also, (though not, I think, relevant to OS X), binding a key to move content between PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD on X Windows has been very nice.
I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.
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Without something like Homebrew you don't get any current Unix tools (OSX shell is way out of date) or anyway to systematically update them. This is a big benefit that far outweighs any perceived benefit dropping bundles into /Applications. And you get some attempt at installation of dependencies.
What are current UNIX tools? OS X supports what is expected from a POSIX compliant OS. I guess you mean BSD and GNU extensions to POSIX.
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
If it were open source you could probably get better results by hacking it up to parse in the "right" language and then only realizing the phonology in the "wrong" language, instead of both parsing and speaking in the "wrong" language.
This is a great intro. Here's my favorite OS X Terminal trick: ⌘. (command period) is a hotkey not defined in the menu for sending BREAK. This is automatically equivalent to ctrl+c in shells, ctrl+g in emacs and ESC in Vim. Similarly, ⌘K is short for clearing the screen. These are much more ergonomic than the standards on Mac laptops and wireless keyboards.
How is cmd + K different from cmd + R and/or $ clear?
I find this useful before printing text that I want to search using ⌘+F.
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
This is great, and the voices apparently only know how to speak English, and their own language! That is, typing say -v Milena "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Actually says, "Zdravstvuyte...", while typing say -v Bruce "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Results in "Cyrillic capital letter 'Z'. Cyrillic small leter 'd'.", etc.
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
This is great, and the voices apparently only know how to speak English, and their own language! That is, typing say -v Milena "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Actually says, "Zdravstvuyte...", while typing say -v Bruce "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Results in "Cyrillic capital letter 'Z'. Cyrillic small leter 'd'.", etc.
I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.
Have you ever asked yourself if maybe you're just being annoying? I don't lock my computer. It'll time out and lock after an hour but I prefer to leave it unlocked.
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Have you ever asked yourself if maybe you're just being annoying? I don't lock my computer. It'll time out and lock after an hour but I prefer to leave it unlocked.
That's pretty terrible opsec. It presents a risk to separation of roles / compartmentalization if a coworker can walk over to your workstation and have access to it, to say nothing of malicious access by somebody who shouldn't be in the office in the first place.
If so, I would hope the responsibility for setting opsec policy isn't resting in one sysadmin.