#132: Photoanalysisd consuming 100% CPU
Solved!on September 21, 2016, 04:03 AM UTC — from 
yliu
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What is photoanalysisd and what is it doing
#127: Mail.app stuck at fetching mail for gmail accounts on 10.10.3
Solved!on February 27, 2015, 06:18 PM UTC — from yliu
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After upgrading to OS X 10.10.3, Mail.app is stuck at "Fetching Mail..." for all Gmail POP3 accounts.
Connection doctor logs report:
READ Feb 27 09:54:23.788 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1_0] -- host:pop.gmail.com -- port:995 -- socket:0x6180002b0f20...
#119: Set execute permission for directories
Solved!on August 07, 2011, 10:10 AM UTC — from yliu
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I have a folder consisting of a mix of files and subdirectories, on OS X. I'm looking for a one-line script to set the execute permission bit only on all subfolders/subdirectories, without setting all the normal files to executable as well.
The usual chmod...
#106: Access Apple AirDisk over WAN
Solved!on December 21, 2010, 09:47 AM UTC — from yliu
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So I have an AirDisk set up on my Apple AirPort Extreme router. As I occasionally travel, I'd like to access my AirDisk from the WAN or general Internet. On the other hand, I'd rather not expose the Apple Filing Sharing port 548 over the WAN via the AirPort...
#104: Restore Entourage 2008 Sound Set to Outlook in Office 2011
Solved!on November 08, 2010, 11:15 AM UTC — from yliu
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The default soundset that Outlook ships with is too muted. I would like to import the old Entourage 2008 sound set into Office 2011. I looked in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Sound Sets, but did not find the Default sound set there.
#102: proxychains/proxyresolv DNS failure on OS X 10.6
Solved!on August 22, 2010, 05:57 PM UTC — from yliu
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I managed to get a version of proxychains running on OS X 10.6, after fixing all of its weird library load errors (due to hard-coded library paths in proxychains/proxyresolv's wrapper scripts). Unfortunately, though it correctly connects to an external DNS...
#92: zip command exclude .svn directories
Solved!on April 25, 2010, 09:49 PM UTC — from yliu
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I am looking for the command line incantation for zip to package up a .zip file but exclude any .svn metadata directories and files. I used --exclude=.svn/* but it doesn't seem to work.
#90: 5Ghz mode with Ralink RT2870 and AirPort Express
Solved!on April 06, 2010, 01:20 AM UTC — from yliu
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I purchased a SparkLAN WUBR-505N dual band USB WiFi adapter, which claimed to do 802.11 a/b/g/n, for my Powerbook G4. This card is using the Ralink RT 2870, which is a dual band chipset with fairly nice Mac OS X drivers provided by Ralink. I plugged it in...
#86: Building bsddb.so for Python
Solved!on February 22, 2010, 12:31 AM UTC — from yliu
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I want to build the _bsddo.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of BerkeleyDB 4.8 on my OS X 10.6 machine. OS X 10.6 comes with Python 2.6 and a stock bsddb module, but does not ship the actual binary _bsddb.so, which makes the entire...
#79: DigitalColor Meter RGB color space defaults on Snow Leopard
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on December 26, 2009, 03:29 AM UTC — from yliu
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OS X ships with a nifty digital pixel color meter called DigitalColor Meter, which outputs the color of the pixel under your cursor in whichever color space you choose (Hex Value, 8-Bit for web development, for example). In Leopard, your preferred color space...
#74: Building just readline.so for Python on OS X
Solved!on December 20, 2009, 07:40 AM UTC — from yliu
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I want to build the readline.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of GNU readline. As much as I dislike the entire "what's Free" argument about this nonsense, readline simply works better with packages such as IPython than the crummy...
#67: Unknown password when importing a client certificate in Firefox
Solved!on October 06, 2009, 12:52 AM UTC — from yliu
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When installing a StartCom client certificate for Firefox, a box pops up with "Please enter the password that was used to encrypt this certificate backup". I tried my root password, admin password, a blank password, and Firefox Master Password to no effect...
#65: Default password for X509Anchors on OS X Leopard
Solved!on October 01, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC — from yliu
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The System keychain X509Anchors (in /System/Library/Keychains) is locked by a password. This password is not the system-level administrator password. I need to unlock it.
#61: MacBook Pro network access slow on battery in 10.5.8
Solved!on August 08, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC — from yliu
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After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 on the MacBook Pro 15 in (early 2008), my wireless network speed plunges when on battery power, compared with adapter power. Ping to the nearest network router on AirPort Extreme should be ~1ms (and is when on adapter power...
#49: Subversion 1.6.2 explodes on first network access
Solved!on May 28, 2009, 06:05 AM UTC — from yliu
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After compiling Subversion 1.6.2 from source on OS X 10.5 Leopard, the compilation is apparently successful, but svn dies when it tries to connect to the network for the first time. Crash log reports that symbols are missing from libneon.dylib.
Crash report...
#32: MenuMeters Memory Meter reports negative page faults
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on April 15, 2009, 04:25 AM UTC — from yliu
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The latest build of MenuMeters (1.3 as of this posting) can report negative values for its VM Statistics. For example, the page faults value can roll over INT_MAX to report -1,800,000 page faults, when I've ran the same OS X session for ~18 days. While it...
#30: Eclipse fails to launch with shared library error
Solved!on April 02, 2009, 06:49 AM UTC — from yliu
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After upgrading to Eclipse 3.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5, I receive an error message at launch:
The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library
#23: Compile tsocks 1.8.x on OS X
on March 05, 2009, 02:49 PM UTC — from yliu
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One persistent problem that I run into is that I need to access certain network resources through a SOCKS proxy server. This works great for web resources, but I also need SSH and Subversion access. SOCKS support in these tools are woefully inadequate or...