Comments on: Handy Mac OSX Command Line Tricks

By: snipe

snipe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Sure, but sometimes you don’t want to have to restart

By: EboTimbo

EboTimbo — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:00 +0000

EJECT A Stubborn CD or DVD In Mac OS if a CD or DVD will not eject, restart the machine and hold down the left mouse button until the machine is fully booted and up. This gives the command to eject the CD or DVD from the tray. Works every time.

By: snipe

snipe — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:37:00 +0000

I am unaware of any way to do that from a software perspective.

By: kerrse

kerrse — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:26:00 +0000

How can i turn off the green light when the isight camera is recording

By: snipe

snipe — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:34:00 +0000

Actually no – almost every single blog that asks for your email address never posts it publicly. (That’s why it usually says “will not be displayed”.) The email address is used to be able to approve you for future comments immediately once we see that you’re a live human being, so that your comments aren’t held pending approval until we get to them. Your email address is never displayed, and we don’t actually collect it – I can see it in the disqus admin, but collecting such information would be absurdly tedious.

Not to mention, another reason we use disqus is so that people can post using their Facebook or Twitter login, so they never have to give us any email address at all but can still be approved. Without some sort of identifying information from you, we cannot approve you as a “live human” who can post without being held for moderation.

Providing your email address also allows you to get emailed notifications when someone has replied to your comment here, rather than having to come back and refresh 100 times.

This is the way most blogs work – it’s not really new. Been that way for quite a few years now.

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:29:00 +0000

You would have to be out of your mind to post your private email address on a public site.
(We are EXTREMELY surprised snipe.net even asks such a thing.)
You would instantly get tons of spam.

Besides, what POSSIBLE difference could it make if my email address is “donna@gmail.com” or “susan@hotmail.com”.
Why do you even want to force me to give it out???

I thought this site was about “great questions” and “great answers”, not “we demand you give out your private email address, to us, or to everyone”.

By: snipe

snipe — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Deleting a folder is the standard Linux/BSD command:

rm -R [directory name]
rm -Rf [ddirectory name]

The second one (with the f) means “fast”, which means it won’t ask you to confirm deletion of every file in the directory.

To zip via command line:

zip [zipfilename] [file to zip] {…zips and retains the original file}
zip -m [zipfilename] [file to zip] {…zips and removes the original file}

Also, I doubt very much that your email address is donna@snipe.net. If you’re going to ask for my help, the least you can do is not use a fake email address that couldn’t possibly exist.

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:14:00 +0000

How about doing things like:
Delete a folder (and files within).
or
Compress a folder (and files within).

By: Rajeev Masilamony

Rajeev Masilamony — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:20:00 +0000

Aw yeah I am totally diggin the spaces!! Im OCD about my mac and the way it is organized so this was PERFECT!

By: snipe

snipe — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:33:57 +0000

Hmm.. Have you looked at Better Touch Tool? When I got my Magic Mouse I was ready to throw it out the window. BTT lets you customise just aboout every imaginable part of your mouse/touchpad - and it's free: http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=1722