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As Coursera doesn’t simply use HTTP basic authentication to protect access to the slides and videos of their courses, using curl or wget to download them is not an option.
Conveniently, there’s already a python script that can do this (and even names the files properly):
I don’t know exactly when these settings were introduced in Skype, but it’s obvious that they haven’t been there in this form before Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype.
The irritating thing is that one of my Skype accounts had the “Allow Microsoft to use your Skype profile information to show you more relevant ads in this application” setting enabled and I can’t remember (nor imagine) I ever knowingly allowed ad targeting.
The other one is “Allow Microsoft to collect information on my behalf to make the service better” which they decided to hide in the “advanced” settings tab, although it’s clearly very privacy relevant (just read the disclaimer).
So, make sure to revise all your settings in Skype, particularly those in the privacy and advanced tabs.
In a current LUGS mailing list thread, mowgli pointed to the t-prot script as a nice tool to “fix” the so-called (and very common) TOFU style message quoting and some other annoyances (like commercial webmail provider signatures, overly excited !!!! statements, etc.) in e-mail messages. t-prot was originally developed for mutt, but can also be used with other mail clients.
As there wasn’t any t-prot package for my favourite Mac OS X package manager Homebrew yet (apparently only for MacPorts), I quickly created one myself [Edited on Feb 24, 2015: Updated for t-prot version 3.3]:
require "formula"
class TProt < Formula
homepage "http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/"
url "http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/t-prot/downloads/t-prot-3.3.tar.gz"
sha1 "9be24629abc598b24e887f47e9a62feddc3ed4ad"
def install
bin.install 't-prot'
man1.install 't-prot.1'
end
end
brew install t-prot
set display_filter="t-prot -cemt -M=mutt"
A nice, easy to follow article on how to install Linux alongside Mac OS X, using the rEFInd boot manager:
http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot-linux-on-a-mac/
I didn’t expect it to be that easy, but OSS has really come a long way.
Gttneig rid of the slily, ssyetm-wdie aoutrrcocetoin faetrue in Mac OS X is prue bilss:
Ejnoy yuor new freeodm to tpye waht you atculaly itnneded to tpye :)
(via Disable Mavericks Spelling Autocorrection | a Tech-Recipes Tutorial.)
After plugging out the headphones again, Mavericks decided to rather do without audio output for the rest of its runtime. As none of the usual approaches worked to convince it to obey and I wasn’t quite willing to reboot it, I did a web search and found the following hint:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
I can hereby confirm that this worked in my case (with a 15″ MacBook Pro Retina 2014 model), Mavericks finally obeyed.
via Losing Audio in OS X Mavericks? Here’s what you can do about it! | iMore.
Philip’s post about More OS X Leopard Tips & Tricks is quite dated, but basically, all the valuable tips there are still valid.
Among them also the tip how to get rid of the (usually annoying) drop shadows that Mac OS X adds to screenshots (enter the commands in a terminal window):
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
killall SystemUIServer
Adding shadows again:
defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow
Sometimes, it may seem convenient to quickly connect a Bluetooth keyboard and a Bluetooth mouse to a Mac OS X Server machine for administration. The not so intuitive consequence of this however is, that at future startups, if there’s no keyboard or mouse connected to the machine (which is the common case with servers), Mac OS X will by default fall back to searching for that once connected Bluetooth keyboard or mouse and even stops booting when it doesn’t find them.
In order to prevent this, do the following on your Mac OS X Server:
Check the recommended answer in this thread on superuser.com. For example, to autoinstall the updates at 8 PM daily, you basically need:
1.) Create /Library/LaunchDaemons/some.meaningful.name.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>some.meaningful.name</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>softwareupdate</string>
<string>-i</string>
<string>-a</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>20</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>00</integer>
</dict>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<false/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>2.) Execute the following in a terminal:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/some.meaningful.name.plistAs if the NSA scandal weren’t bad enough already, the Swiss Government is trying to establish a similarly damaging apparatus to monitor its own citizens! There’s only one answer to this: Stop it!
Please sign the petition – NEIN zum Überwachungsstaat!
