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I must say...being a sysadmin with the ability to ssh into developers' laptops remotely in our domain...this is one of the more fun commands ;)
I hope that ssh'ing into anyone's laptop using your sysadmin credentials in order to play a prank is a fireable offense at your company.
I would add caffeinate, which prevents the Mac from going to sleep. It can do this indefinitely, for a fixed period of time, or after a process is done running. You can even specify that process either as the PID of an existing process or by invoking it through caffeinate itself.
Recommend "Amphetamine" as an alternative. More features and kept up to date with bug fixes and improvements. I am not affiliated, just a happy user.
I still set my display to sleep, however. Am I missing something?
As a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check out OS X. More power. However, I'm not a fan of the soft recommendation for Homebrew. I understand Homebrew places everything in `/usr/local` but software installs on Mac should generally con…
I still hate homebrew, of course, because it doesn't handle dependencies well at all, but I'm not 100% ready to switch to nix. Maybe that can be my project for the week, actually.
Great list, not a big fan of homebrew personally, or its creator who seems to be full of himself. I'd recommend pkg_src from joyent[0]. homebrew seems to have a lot of the hip webdev packages, but pkg_src and joyent's repository is the real deal when it comes to hardcore UNIX package management. Some friends have a nice bootstrap for pkg_src on OS X called saveosx[1], too. [0]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-os…
I must disagree with your assessment that Homebrew is focused primarily on webdev. There is rarely any package (webdev-related or not) that I haven't been able to install with it. I'd venture to say that not once over the past 12 months have I had a single problem installing anything.
I'm also curious what pkg_src offers over Homebrew (and vice versa).
textutil is a general purpose front end to the core text engine and is one of the cleanest docx-to-html converters I've run across, with a bunch of file formats supported and charset encoding translations, metadata manipulation commands, and assorted juicy goodness for people who have to mess with word-processed text.
Ironically the only common-on-Apple document format it can't do anything with is that of Apple's Pages word processor ...
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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.
"Bruce" triggered the English response? That's a weird ML algorithm.
Rather, that it gives you instructions for getting it to work. How's a Linux power user getting by without following such instructions to turn on one of their favorite utilities?
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I hope that ssh'ing into anyone's laptop using your sysadmin credentials in order to play a prank is a fireable offense at your company.
And I hope that I would get fired for a little rare, light-hearted humor as I wouldn't want to work there anyways. Chill out, winston.
Please don't. This comment would be fine with just the first sentence.