Migrating from Linux to OSX

Thinks you might find while working on OSX but also general Unix stuff.

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Charge Limiters for Increasing the Battery Life of Plugged-In Laptops on macOS

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When using a MacBook primarily plugged into a charger, it's often beneficial to limit the battery charge to around 80%. Charging up to 1...

How to Abbreviate Author Names in IEEEbib.bst

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When working with IEEE references in BibTeX, the IEEEbib.bst style is commonly used for IEEE conferences and journals. However, by default, ...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Slow SSHFS transfer speeds under OSX

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If you’ve noticed that SSHFS transfers are much slower (several times slower) than SCP on macOS, you're not alone. This issue seems to b...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Brighten an \includeimage image in LaTeX Using decodearray without modifying the file

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You can adjust the brightness of \includegraphics images in LaTeX without editing them! The decodearray option in the graphicx package al...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Running HTTPS and SSH over the same port with SSLH

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Do you need to access your network services from remote locations but are blocked by firewalls or other access restrictions? You might want...

Reset Windows passwords with chntpw using a Linux Live USB

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Have you ever forgotten your Windows login password and been locked out of your own computer? There is a way to reset your Windows password...

Make a bootable Linux/Ubuntu live USB drive on OS X

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We'll see how to create a bootable Linux/Ubuntu USB drive, from an ISO image, on OS X using command line commands. Step 1: Download the ...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Download files from google drive with python - no API key

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There are several scripts to download files from google drive using a shareable link. Some require authentication others don't work. He...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Fix your matplotlib colorbars!

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Matplotlib colorbars are a mess, especially if using subplots I often get tall bars like in this case    but instead I wanted   This great a...
Friday, October 8, 2021

pandoc: quite good conversion from Latex to docx with references and preserving tikz figures

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This works surprisingly well, with all the figures and even rendering the BibTex references:  > pandoc -C -s main.tex --natbib -o main.do...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Conditional formatting LaTeX tables depending on cell values

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A package for generating conditional formatted LaTeX tables that extends the one proposed in a post by  Siavoosh Payandeh Azad . I've ju...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Blockchain explained

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The clearest explanation of blockchain I've seen, from Anders Brownworth  and it comes with an online demo.  
Friday, February 12, 2021

nettop: monitor the per-process bandwidth usage in OSX

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This command will display the network usage of all the running processes    nettop -P -k state,interface -d -s 3 Flags explained: -s  refres...

reduce the size of a pdf file compressing its figures

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To reduce the size of a PDF file in linux of mac you'll need ghostscript (which in mac can be installed  with: brew install ghostscript ...
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