Category: MAC OS X

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MAC OS X

MAC OS X re index spotlight search

It is really annoying when spotlight does not return the right search results. To perform a re indexing execute following commands in terminal as root.
sudo -s
mdutil -a -i off
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
mdutil -a -i on

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git Linux MAC OS X

#git switch to branch without merge on local repo

To switch from master to a branch or branch to another without merge.

git branch
*master

$ git fetch origin <new_branch>

$ git checkout
Branch legacy set up to track remote branch legacy from origin.
Switched to a new branch ‘new_branch'

$ git pull

$ git branch
* new_branch
master

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git Linux MAC OS X

git # move directory or file

Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink

# clone the repo
git clone <repo-url>
git mv <source_file_or_directory> <destination>
git status # will show the change details
git commit -am "comment_for_the_change"
git push # push changes to repo

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Linux MAC OS X

Create bootable USB on OSX

– Identify the disk number for the USB disk inserted, usually you can find it from the “Name” and “Size” field.
Below eg: , We inserted a USB with 4.1 GB size (so as the identified: “disk2”.)
Open terminal and execute the following commands:

sh-3.2$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 119.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *118.7 GB disk2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: UNTITLED *4.1 GB disk2

– Unmount the disk
sh-3.2$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3
Unmount of all volumes on disk3 was successful

– write the ISO file to USB using dd command
sh-3.2$ sudo dd if=Downloads/ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-i386.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
Password:
707+0 records in
707+0 records out
741343232 bytes transferred in 139.059398 secs (5331126 bytes/sec)

– Unmount the disk
sh-3.2$ diskutil eject /dev/disk3
Disk /dev/disk3 ejected

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MAC OS X

Convert multiple JPEG to single PDF MAC OS

It is rather easy to convert Multiple images files as single PDF.

– Select all the files, and open with preview
– Print, and select “save as pdf”
– this will create a single PDF file with all jpeg in.

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Amazon Kindle Android MAC OS X

Root and install google play in Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 (8.1.4)

Rooted Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 (8.1.4) with Google apps
Rooted Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 (8.1.4) with Google apps

This is a working procedure to root and install google play Amazon Kindle HD 10″ (8.1.4).

Root Kindle Fire HD,

I followed the procedure described in here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

$ ./RunMe.sh

Select the option 1) Normal

  • Now your device is root’d, you may verify :

sh-3.2$ ./adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
shell@android:/ # cd /
shell@android:/ # ls

  • Reboot  and do the installation for google play store

Install google play store 

Reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893410

  •  Open ES File Explorer, go to settings, Root settings , and select Root Explorer, Upto Root, and Mount File system.
  • Download the GoogleServicesFramework.apk Vending.apk and Play.apk and copy to your sdcard.

GoogleServicesFramework.apk – mediafire.com/?zaumfwhraxcifqf
Vending.apk – mediafire.com/?31bn3e258jjpj8d
Play.apk – mediafire.com/?wwcqrlfwt8o1gnv

Please follow the below steps in order to get it working.

– Open ES file explorer, click and install GoogleServicesFramework.apk
– Then move the Vending.apk to /system/app
– Change the permission to 644 (User – Read/Write, Group/Others – Read)
– Now click and install Vending.apk
– You can see android market installed on your kindle, open it and do the google account registration. It is important that you do this step before installing Play.apk
– Once the registration is successful, click and install Play.apk from the sdcard.
– Now you will have a working play store , enjoy:)

Issues faced:

  • While rooting,  I was not able to execute the adb under stuff folder, replace the adb with the one come with Android SDK.
  • I got “google play has stopped” messages while opening google play . To fix it . 1) Make sure that you copied the Vending.apk to the correct path /system/app and the permissions are correct. 2) Do the google account registration before installing Play.apk

Rooted Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 (8.1.4) with Google apps
Rooted Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 (8.1.4) with Google apps

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Linux MAC OS X

svn: Can’t convert string from ‘UTF-8’ to native encoding:

"svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:"

This usually happens with special characters in the file name, which the client cannot understand.

Just set proper locale in the client to fix this issues,

$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
// make sure the locale is properly set.
$ locale
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

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Linux MAC OS X

svn over ssh tunnel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is very often required that you need to commit/update to the svn repository which is only indirectly accessible through a gateway (user can ssh to gateway and gateway can ssh to internal svn server)

Suppose you have a working copy (locally on your machine)  setup with the real svn url (eg : svn+ssh://svn.example.com)

– Make ssh connection with local port forwarding to the gateway server

# sudo ssh gateway.example.com -L 22:svn.example.com:22

Change the repository url to localhost, since the local host connection forward to remote svn server through the gateway.

#cd <local_svn_path>

# svn switch –relocate svn+ssh://svn.example.com/trunk svn+ssh://localhost/trunk

Now you should be able to update, commit, etc to/from your repository.

You can switch it back to the original url when you have direct access to repository.

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