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Alternately, look at solutions like Butler and Quicksilver (my favorite). They both provide ways to launch apps, scripts, documents, images, whatever. The key bindings are "smart" in that they are learned by the program. Quicksilver is very natural to use. I haven't really tried Butler, but I know a lot of people like it.
That was sweet. Now I can start all my app like that!!!
I saw somewhere a book on Mac OS Keyboard secrets or something like that. Maybe I will buy it
Also, just a quick question, being recently convert from Windows background, I cant seem to find a key to open up menus. In Windows, we can do Alt+F and such....
I saw somewhere a book on Mac OS Keyboard secrets or something like that. Maybe I will buy it
Also, just a quick question, being recently convert from Windows background, I cant seem to find a key to open up menus. In Windows, we can do Alt+F and such....
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hayduke said:
Grep also supports regular expressions, which are a nice, compact way of performing complicated queries. Spotlight does not have this feature and I would be surprised if it ever does.
acidity said:OK.
What is the keyboard shortcut to start a terminal windows in Mac OS X? I am a keyboard guy and dosnt like to mouse click everytime terminal to open a terminal. Is this possible in Mac or we have to do some extra key bindind...if yes then how
The amount of time it takes you to open Spotlight, search for Term and launch it, you could be typing your first command. Just add Terminal to your dock, that's what I do.
baummer said:
Not at all, for me. It takes me far longer to take my hand off the keyboard, move the mouse down to the dock and click the Terminal, then move my hand back to the touch-typing position.
Plus, I'd rather not have a Dock cluttered with every app I regularly need.
Code:
yes > /dev/nullIf you have more than one core, open a terminal window for each and run that command. It should let you peg all of the cores one at a time.
What's the command for making aliases in terminal? it sounds like it might come in useful.
Code:
ln -s /link/to/file shortcutname
Code:
austin-mangels-computer:~ diamonddavidleeroth$ cd Desktop/
austin-mangels-computer:~/Desktop diamonddavidleeroth$ ln -s /Users/diamonddavidleeroth/vodka.iso vodka.iso
austin-mangels-computer:~/Desktop diamonddavidleeroth$Another cool feature of the bash shell is that you can compile UNIX/Linux apps on Mac OS X. Compiling from source+ Mac apps+ Boot Camp = the most versatile system in the world.
There is hardly anything you can throw at a current mac that won't run.
Hope im not imposing but i wasn't sure if i understood you correctly. Are you saying that with any linux source code you can compile that app to run on a mac? There are a few simple games that i like that are for linux. So is it things like that that can be compiled?
Things that are generically UNIX will likely be okay on any of the systems.
Things that require more specific resources will likely cause you to get those resources first and compile them prior to using them to compile a game. SDL is one that runs on Linux and Mac OS X (UT2004 uses it) but you won't likely have it on your system now in a form you need.
fink is your friend and Fink Commander is a huge help.