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| | www.naseer.dev
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| | A Hyper Key is an extra modifier key that can be used to add extra keyboard shortcuts in tools such as hammerspoon. The most common method on a Mac was to use your Caps Lock key as your Hyper key using a tool called Karabiner Elements. The issue with Karabiner though is that it is a kernel extension and keeps running into problems with newer OS X releases. If your only use case for Karabiner is to remap the Caps Lock key - you may be able to use the OS X native hidutil utility to achieve the same result.
| | blog.ostanin.org
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| | I always wanted to have an always-on Mac OS X machine which I could run Jenkins on to build and test iOS apps. While I have an old MacBook Pro I could use, I'd rather not have another computer running 24?7, especially one which would receive so little use. While OS X runs in VMWare (with some hacks) and VirtualBox, it can also run on KVM with a few patches thanks to Gabriel Somlo's excellent work.
| | dae.me
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| | [AI summary] A blog post discusses troubleshooting the 'Building boot caches' error encountered when changing the startup disk on a Mac, offering a solution involving the creation of a missing com.apple.Boot.plist file.
| | blog.djmnet.org
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| Every few years I have to figure out a new way to share a Mac's printer with Windows PCs. The printer is connected to a Mac with USB and shared using System Preferences>Sharing>Printer Sharing. Apple provides Bonjour Print Services for Windows as a free download. It starts a service that discovers printers using the Zeroconf...