In a previous life, I designed and built many SANs based on Xsan (I believe I started with Xsan 1.3). I then migrated to looking after SANs based on SNFS, either from 3rd party vendors, or Quantum. I believe that the age of Fibre Channel is long over (although SNFS…
macOS : Removing caches and temporary files in macOS
The easiest way is using an application like Onyx. You can check the amount of space taken by the files using du. Before using any deletion command you can check with ls what exactly is going to be deleted. When using rm enable verbose mode (-v). Don’t delete the root…
macOS: Application stealing focus
A few weeks ago I had an issue with a macOS system which focus kept being stolen by an unknown application. All the windows were displaying as inactive so it had to be a background process. A StackExchange user called medmunds had adapted a script from another post, that seems…
macOS: Spotlight results not showing applications
Sometimes if your system restarts unexpectedly Spotlight stops working as expected. In this particular case it won’t show any Applications on the results despite the settings on System Preferences. This will happen even if you disable and re-enable Spotlight through the GUI. The solution is do it via the CLI.…
Linux: Configure locale and keyboard layout when remotely accessing from a Mac
At work I have to remote into several different Linux systems from a Mac and there is always the pain of having to handle different keyboard layouts if using Synergy or VMs. The conversion from a Mac keyboard layout doesn’t translate correctly when the Linux system has the keyboard configured…
macOS: macOS installer fails with “No packages were eligible for install”
Having to re-install recently mac OS High Sierra 10.13 from a USB flash drive I got stuck getting the following error message: macOS could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.Quit the installer to restart your computer and try…
