Technology Tips, and Anything Else
If like me, you have a particular path on a server you always upload files to, via SCP, then you’ll probably want a better way than typing the full path into the scp command everytime you upload a file! This command has been tested on OS X, but there’s no reason it wouldn’t work on …
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There may be occasions where you want to connect to a host with a long host name, for example ssh servername.example.com – now it’s not massive, but it’s not as quick as ssh servername If you’ve been following droptips.com, you’ll have noticed my other post about setting the port number in the SSH config file …
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If you run an SSH server, or many SSH servers, then you may have set the SSH daemon to run on a non-standard port. SSH normally listens on port 22, but with the large amount of script/bot attacks now on this port, attempting random logins, changing it to something different is a quick way to …
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There may be times when you need to access whatever is on your clipboard in a Terminal; maybe a particularly long URL for example. And, there may be times when you want to put things on to the clipboard from a Terminal. Reading the Clipboard As it’s going to be text on the clipboard (even …
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There may be times when you just want to do a quick check to see whether a web site is up, and/or what status message the web server is showing. This won’t actually show you if the page it served up is correct or not, purely the web server status code on whether or not …
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This is a quick little tip, to turn text into speech on OS X. Open a Terminal and use the command say as follows: say droptips rocks Remember to have your speakers turned up and you’ll hear whatever you’ve typed after say. Interestingly, if you type: say x It’ll Say “exx” or similar. But if …
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As you start using the command line, you’ll come across thousands of different commands, all with their own options and ways of taking options. Every command is different, but help is on hand in the form of man pages. Manual Pages (or man page for short) are the documentation distributed with every command (or, at …
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When you take a screenshot in OS X, using the default button combination, you’ll notice that it’s saved in PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format. You may prefer another format, such as JPEG, but it’s not obvious on how to change it. From within a Terminal, you can change it pretty easily: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type …
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When you take a screenshot in OS X, using the default keyboard shortcuts, it places the image file on the Desktop. This might be OK in some instances, but what if you want to place it in a different directory, maybe one just for screenshots? You can change the path using a Terminal. Open Terminal …
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If like me you never use the Dashboard within OS X, you’ll be aware that it’s silentely in the background using up some resources. You may have removed all of the widgets from the Dashboard, but it’s still there in the background, just not displaying anything. This process definitely works in OS X Leopard (10.5), …
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