Re: the graphicsless paradigm
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Sean Murphy wrote: The CLI on the Mac does provide text base applications if you like to learn. people like things to be easy, thus why we have GUI now. Me: I have used both and the cli is far more easy by any measure one might choose. Screen reader access is far more superior then any gui can possibly provide. Most tasks can be done in a text environment with far less trouble in my opinion.
Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10
Thank you. I think I've succeeded! If I may bother you again, how do I make sure this file is always up-to-date? I have till now been using adblocker, Blur, and other extensions but I've just uninstalled them because my Safari became very sluggish to load. Download it from time to time. It is said to be updated monthly, the current one december 20. Then do this command in the directory into which you unzipped it: grep Updated: hosts This command grabs the line containing the date in the hosts file and returns it as output in terminal. Currently the line is: Updated: December-20-2014 Or you could open the file and read the same line which appears several lines from the top of the hosts file. XB
Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10
I read on the site you should copy some text to terminal to flush the cash. Is this necessary? The hosts file is loaded into memory at bootup. With a new file the old one is in memory until the next reboot. The flush command empties the cache holding it and the new file is loaded when first called upon by the system. XB
Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10
I have downloaded the zip file hosts.zip. I can not see a hosts.txt file. There is Hosts executable licence.txt mbvps.bat privacypolecy.txt and readme.txt. Please what am I missing. Just because it is a plain text file doesn't mean it has a txt extension. The hosts file needs only to be copied into the /private/etc directory, it is that simple. XB
Re: Copy text from terminal.
Someone asked: My problem is the following. I have a Python script to launch within the terminal. The script exits with a quite long and detailed error which has a long traceback. I would like to copy all this output from terminal in the clipboard in order to past it within an e-mail, and asking help and suggestions to a programmer?s mailing list. Now, this output comes up in terminal from stderr system file and I thought it?s possible to redirect it on a txt file before to launch the corrupted python script. So, it would be simple, than, to open that txt filed and save it to the clipboard. This for reading. Me: Sorry I have little experience with python. Here is a page which seems to be addressing a similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4760215/running-shell-command-from-python-and-capturing-the-output To get a clip board involved look at the pbcopy and pbpaste commands. These allow multiple clip boards to be used from the command line. Good luck. XB
Re: How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10
Someone asked: This is a very interesting post. I've downloaded the hosts.zip file but I find in the zipped folder only files that I would consider to be windows files only. In the private/etc folder, there's no equivalent host file that I could replace. The downloaded zipped file only has a unix executable file, and hosts.bat. The private/etc folder on my mac doesn't have hosts.bat file. but only hosts TextEdit.app Document. How can I accomplish what the instructions in the link you sent tell me to do? I've been on the website from which one can download the file but there's no reference on it to the os mac operating system. Me: The text edit hosts file is the one to use. It is a pure text file which is why text edit sees it. After making a copy of the hosts file already there just put the new one in its place. Except for that hosts text file ignore everything else in the zip file. On the zip source page do a search for Mac OS, that is the header for the os10 instructions section. XB
Re: Copy text from terminal.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: Hello all. How can I copy text lines from the terminal? If there is no simple way, it would be ok also to redirect the stderr file on a .txt but how? It is not clear what you are trying to do. If you want the output from a command that appears on the screen in a txt file then use the tee command. command | tee textfile If your goal is something else then please do explain in more detail. XB
How to block ads and malicious websites using the host file in OS10
If you have gotten tired of the ads in youtube and elsewhere here is a way to block them. I have tried out this method for a number of days and in youtube have not seen one ad. Because I do most things in terminal except for youtube I don't encounter ads ormalicious websites so I have no experience there. Look here: https://giuliomac.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/how-to-block-ads/ This method works with any operating system which can connect with the internet with any browser. There is a small bit there about how to do the mac version. Basically there is a plain text file in /private/etc called hosts. It contains internet url locations for the system to ignore. I would advise renaming the existing hosts file before substituting the new one. The version of it in the zip file at the above link contains many many such sources known to cause popup ads such as those in youtube and else where. Those known to be malicious websites are blocked also. The file is updated once a month when additional ad and malicious websites become known. Using the examples in the file one can add sites one does not want to appear, such as those a child should not visit. The result is that the ads and malicious websites disappear as far as you are concerned. The internet works faster because those sites never enter into the picture. Computer security is much improved because malicious websites never see you on the net to plant nasties on your system. XB
Re: the graphicsless paradigm
Someone offered: I wish a graphicsless mode. This mode allows things to get very zippy and fast. for some of us, this graphic layer is not even necessarry. It helps with battery, and there?s more memory for voice over related stuff. And small background tasks. That do stuff I too am blind and use terminal about 95 percent of the time. Iuse a dos box as a terminal lashed to the mac with a serial connection. I have a dos screen reader on the dos box which permits excellent fine detailed control over screen access to the mack ternimal activity. Most often when using a gui application I start it by using the open command in the bash shell. For example using audio files. The web browser lynx is text only and alpine as the email client provide access to the web based activities. Lynx also has a directory access mode with file manipulation functionality for within the mac directory tree. Much of the gui functionality piggy backs on bash level applications so the scope of what it does can be accessed in terminal. The many bash level utilities are there for the using in scripts or as aliases or functions defined by the user. Using the say command allows access to voiceover output if one wants it from the mac. XB y
Cloud drives in terminal
When someone has a cloud drive such as with apple or google, does it show up in terminal perhaps as a symbolic link? If so where in the directory treee does it appear, perhaps /volumes? XB
Re: terminal suggestions
Someone offered: If you change the terminal type to t100 in the terminal it will speak a bit better. Speech interrupts are still an issue but not so much with vt100 for those who don't know how to change the terminal type export TERM=vt100 Not sure how it gets added to the shell's There is a default vt so the vt100 must be declared each time you use terminal. This adds it to the temporary environment. The profile in the above isn't needed, just term=vt100 works. Terminal can also accept a vt102 version but I don't know what added features it has. This can be avoided by adding the above to the hidden .profile or .bash_profile files. If they don't exist just create them. Any command or condition one wants for each terminal session can be added there. This permits fine detailed customization of how terminal works. XB
The Worst Bugs in OS X Yosemite and How to Fix Them
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/the-worst-bugs-in-os-x-yosemite-and-how-to-fix-them-1652690924 XB
Problems using macports
I recently installed a program from macports without problem. Then I did a selfupdate to bring the tree current. Since then macports fails to work with error messages that things can not be found for program installations. Has anyone suggestions of the source of the problem and a possible fix? I use snow leopard still. Would a new install from scratch using the sn version be a possible fix? Thanks XB
OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess
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Re: hot to download youtube videos on mac?
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: are there are program to download some videos on youtube, i just want to present it to my prof. thanks I use youtube-dl in terminal. http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ It will download a youtube playlist. It also downloads video from other then youtube. It can also convert video formats as part of the download. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Up half the night trying to change my IP address? Help!!!!
This page shows how to change the ip address in terminal: http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/01/set-ip-address-from-the-mac-command-line/ XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Apple iOS 8 update cripples phones. How to fix it.
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Re: Snow Leopard, again
Someone noted: Yep, just bought my copy, for old time's sake. Unfortunately, it's w 10.6.3 and no later; Apple stopped making the discs available for retail after that, and the only way to get the latest version is if it came with a particular Mac. (Insert rant about Apple locking its media to specific Macs here.) Me. If in the top menu it no longer has a software update choice do this. In terminal run this command: softwareupdate -l It takes a few seconds and then lists all those software applications available for update based on your current installation. In times past in sl this would include sl updates. I run sl 10.6.8 I think it is, whatever the last one was. I just checked, the command still produces applications I can update. That is how starting with an older version I gradually got each sl update as it was available. Do the command again with a -h in place of the -l. This will list those which will allow installing the applications of choice or all of them. Do the man for this command for more detail. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Apple's App Review Should Test Accessibility
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Re: Command line question.
Someone asked: huh? i think i had a blonde moment there? that might work as well but sfpt would be more secure than just ftp right? Yes and it works similar to ssh in doing a login. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Command line question.
Someone wrote: I have ssh into my mac from a linux box as root. Now i want to copy a bunch of mp3-s or move them from one disk to another with mv or cp. Use sftp to transfer files, or just ftp if it is between two of your own computers. There is a man page for both, I prefer sftp for its command set. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Status of audio description
We owe this golden age of media audio description to the nfb. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Memory chip sources
I'm considering adding additional memory for an older imac. Has anyone a suggested source? The local apple store suggested either: Crucial.com or: macsales.com Are their others to be considered? Thanks. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
tmux
I use gnu screen that comes with os10 to do multitasking and multiple simultaneous terminal sessions. I can download a large amount of material while browsing or doing email for example. There is also tmux which does the same thing. There is a macports version of this. Has anyone had experience with the latter and is it worth installing? What differences would make it worth using the latter over the former? Thanks. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
