Judge Hugh Swift, in an effort to reach the more remote areas of our county, will be campaigning via horseback in Diamond XX on Monday!
Charity Madness will be reporting more on this over at the Copper Gazette.
Judge Hugh Swift, in an effort to reach the more remote areas of our county, will be campaigning via horseback in Diamond XX on Monday!
Charity Madness will be reporting more on this over at the Copper Gazette.
Want to have access to one of the best English dictionaries ever made? Learn how to install Webster’s 1913 edition right in your OS X dictionary application: http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
The lure of the bigger screen finally got me to try a non-iPhone. So far, the pros outweigh the cons for my new HTC One, but there are a lot of little tweaks, hidden settings, and obscure apps that I thought I would document here for any other switchers. The annoying thing? Virtually all of the annoyances are due to AT&T removing or blocking functionality that is built into the phone.
I will update this post on an ongoing basis as I learn more.
diskutil info /Volumes/**volume_name**
Replace **volume_name** with the name of your NTFS drive. If your drive name is more than one word separated by a space, you’ll want to replace it with a shorter name temporarily. You can return to the original name after the process. From the output of the last command, copy the “Volume UUIID” value to a text file. Then copy this to terminal and press enter:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
It will open nano, the little text editor that runs on terminal window. Write into it
UUID= **UUID you copied onto a text file** none ntfs rw
Replace the **UUID you copied onto a text file** with… UUID you copied onto a text file.
Press Control + X, Y, Enter It will save the file and quit the editor. Restart your computer. Repeat for every drive NTFS drives or partitions that you have to write on.
Type any of these lines into Terminal to change how OS X Lion behaves:
# Enable full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs) defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3 # Enable the 2D Dock defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true # Disable menu bar transparency defaults write -g AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false # Expand save panel by default defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true # Expand print panel by default defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true # Disable shadow in screenshots defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true # Enable highlight hover effect for the grid view of a stack (Dock) defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -bool true # Enable spring loading for all Dock items defaults write enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items -bool true # Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false # Disable auto-correct defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false # Disable window animations defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false # Disable disk image verification defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-locked -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-remote -bool true # Automatically open a new Finder window when a volume is mounted defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-ro-root -bool true defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-rw-root -bool true # Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true # Disable Safari’s thumbnail cache for History and Top Sites defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2 # Enable Safari’s debug menu defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool true # Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar "()" # Disable send and reply animations in Mail.app defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true # Disable Resume system-wide defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false # Enable Dashboard dev mode (allows keeping widgets on the desktop) defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode -bool true # Reset Launchpad rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db # Show the ~/Library folder chflags nohidden ~/Library # Disable local Time Machine backups sudo tmutil disablelocal # Kill affected applications for app in Safari Finder Dock Mail; do killall "$app"; done # Fix for the ancient UTF-8 bug in QuickLook (http://mths.be/bbo) echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
Great perspective on maintaining focus. Get rid of or manage all those pesky notifications!
The only non-renewable resource you truly have is your time. Next time you’re asked to “pay” attention to something, remember that’s what you’re doing: you’re paying.
Great article on how Apple has prospered by focusing on product, rather than profits. This is a great illustration of the power of Daniel Pink’s Alignment, Mastery, and Purpose in getting the very best from people.
I said that in a meeting today and thought it was quite pithy. I’m posting it here in case some future historian ever wants to compile a collection of my quotes.
Now I have a big glob of electronic keys, and if I lose it I will be liable for double the cost. Grrr.
Did your weather station stop working with OS X Lion? You might need to update this little devil:
USB to UART Bridge VCP Driver