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I just had to write this one up, because everyone deserves to know stupid tricks that work. This is also a story of my reason for needing to do something this stupid. If you just want to get to the stupid trick part, you can skip ahead . If you want to feel a little of my pain, then read on. If you don’t follow me on twitter , you probably didn’t see that last fall we were fortunate enough to move…
In my original blog post on getting Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions playing together, I provided some example scripts and configurations which inadvertently made something required for the Bedrock players that isn’t strictly required : Namely a Minecraft paid-for Mojang account. This was purely an accident on my part. I thought it would be possible to do this, but in my testing I couldn’t…
[Update: Before buying anything, be sure to read part 2 as well, where I corrected some mistakes here!] If you’re reading this, you may be one of the adults living in a household full of Minecraft fans who can’t agree on which version is better: Java edition (aka original flavor/classic Minecraft, played on a computer - the one you can mod like crazy) or Bedrock edition (available on iPhone, iPad,…
Howdy, y’all. Long time 😄 I’ve been somewhat busy . So now the 2018 MacBook Pro exists. If you didn’t hear, it ships with Secure Boot. If you did hear, you might be freaking out about that. So I’ve written this blog post for you to read. Mind you, I’m not the only one that’s written about Secure Boot devices. There are community and tech articles: SecureBoot & the 2017 iMac Pro (by the wonderful…
[ Disclaimer: This blog post is only a personal, ficticious thought experiment. If you’re a Mac administrator, I recommend you read it. Regardless of whether this thought experiment turns out to be reality or fiction, the conclusion contains some very good advice that I’d recommend - no matter what the future holds. - mike ] Howdy. It’s been almost a year or so since my last blog post. I’ve been…
(And we’ll cover .sfl files while we’re at it!) A good friend of mine, Allister , had an interesting question on the MacAdmins Slack : @allister: zero hits on developer.apple.com for this file extension: Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.RecentServers.sfl To wit: What are the .sfl files that are appearing in OS X 10.11 El Capitan? There sure are a lot…
Rich Trouton kindly wrote a wonderful blog post covering a python script of mine ( note: this is the old version, don’t use it! ) which modifies installations of Oracle’s Java JDK to extend its capabilities to allow it to run JavaApplicationStub .app bundles as was discussed on Apple’s Developer forums (go ahead and read it, Apple has made the forum open to the public for now). One thing that…
This blog post is about correcting function signatures in pyobjc. This blog post has a backstory. Recently I received a challenge that was posed by Shea Craig to me on the Macadmins Slack in the #autopkg channel: @sheagcraig: Also, it’s possible that we could try to do a mount via PyObjC stuff (paging @frogor) *(frogor is one of my many names ) In the discussion, a few people were wondering if it…
The python that ships with OS X is not managed by python.org . It is a custom Apple-maintained distribution of python - much in the same way that Apple used to have their own distribution of Java included in OS X (Apple Java is still available, but has been deprecated and doesn’t ship with OS X - 10.11 will be the last version to ever have it ). As such, Apple’s python has some customizations:…
If you’ve never used it before, Preview.app has an amazing ability to pull a signature from the trackpad on your Mac or from the video feed of your FaceTime camera. The feature is located under the menu Tools -> Annotate -> Signature . The capture experience is pretty magical, second only to (in my opinion) iTunes using your camera to capture your iTunes gift card codes. Once it has your signature…