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MacOs equivalent of adding a user to the linux dialout group on for permissions setup for UART communication
I'm working on a project where I'm interfacing with some hardware and want to monitor the data from some sensors using a specific tool. The tool doesn't have official support for MacOS but I've ...
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Mac Partitioning Error (-69624)
I'm trying to create a partition on my Mac so I can run Debian, but whenever I try to partition my disk I get this error:
I've factory reset my Mac, and tried partitioning in recovery mode. I'm not ...
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How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it? [closed]
How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it ?
For example, if I type Canage01 and my sister look at me focus on my keyboard when I type it, she saw it.
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Is it dangerous to have /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in one's PATH?
I was reading a Stack Exchange answer here about a connected topic, and part of the accepted answer said this:
never place user-writeable PATH elements ahead of those that can only be modified by ...
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Process 0 is taking 500%+ CPU time in MAC
Problem
When I boot my mac, once the login screen appears and after which everything freezes, I can hardly open any applications.
Analysis
Using activity manager, I found out, process with process ...
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Complete install a Linux OS to the MacBook Pro
I would like to install Linux on a MacBook Pro machine. It will be a full installation and afterward, will run fully on Linux.
Please, don't ask me why, but, I'm sure I can go back and install OS X ...
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I can no longer log into my Mac after “sudo chmod 744 /”
Right after I executed:
sudo chmod 744 /
on my Mac, everything on my desktop is gone, and I can no longer open any applications or folders. So I pressed the power button to restart my Mac, but then ...
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I have 4TB hard drive, how to use it under both OSX, windows and linux? [duplicate]
How to format it so that it can be used in Ubuntu, windows and OSX?
Fat32? I have rull out NTFS as an option.
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Are there consequences for uninstalling OSX from an apple computer?
My boss is giving me an old macbook to use for developing iOS apps. I would like to install a linux distribution but i don't know if doing this would have bad consequences that would cause problems ...
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OsX El Capitan ignoring case sensitive filenames and not making file/directory distinction
Hi I've run in a strange behaviour on a MacBook today: I had a directory named "FOO" (all capitals) on the desktop, then I created a file named "foo" (no extension) in another directory and moved it ...
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How to connect a linux pc (Ubuntu) to a Mac OSX that run only in single user mode terminal
First time posting here, so be kind with me. This is a problem I'm facing. A Mac on OSX (10.7.x) is dead on graphic card,so is bootable only in single mode from terminal. I want to get data from disk, ...
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Boot a Mac in Target Mode with Different OS
I have two PowerPC macs, one running OSX, and one running Linux. I would like to boot the one running Linux into target mode so that the OSX mac can access it via firewire.
Is this possible? Or does ...
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unix/linux chmod to let everyone read every directory and file
I'm having file permission trouble backing up my MacbookPro through my LAN to my Windows computer.
I want to set permissions of all files and directories on MacbookPro to allow reading by all. On the ...
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Problems connecting to my Mac via SSH
I have Mac with remote access enabled. I can easily connect to it via SSH within local network. I have configured 22 port forwarding on my router. But I can't connect to my Mac via SSH by using router'...
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How to create an ssh connection Terminal shortcut with commands on Mac OS X (Yosemite)
On my Windows PC I got a Putty Batch File that connects to my Pi (SSH - Openelec), authenticates as root, kills a process (hyperiond), and starts it again. I have to use this file frequently because ...
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