All posts tagged with 'Mac OS X'

JDK 9 EA on macOS

02-Aug-17

The release date for Java 9 is getting closer and it’s about time to get your hands dirty with the early-access builds. Those are available here. I’m on a Mac running the latest version of macOS. It’s easy to change $JAVA_HOME in a shell through the various settings of you preferred environment. Sadly, $JAVA_HOME (or […]

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ALT+Click all the things

05-Dec-14

Here’s a list of things you can ALT+Click (Option key ⌥ + left mouse button) in Mac OS X: ALT+Click on the WiFi icon in the menubar gives you detailed information about your selected WiFi network ALT+Click on the volume icon in the menubar lets you quickly select audio input and output device ALT+Click on […]

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Mac OS X Lion loses network connection after sleep

05-Jan-12

Sleep related problems have never been a problem for me with OS X (at least the sleep of the machine) since Lion. Sleep works perfectly fine but after wake my machine has no internet connection anymore, at least it looks like this. It’s only domains that aren’t resolved anymore. It also affects wired and wifi […]

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XML / XSD Schema validation on Mac OS X

16-Jan-09

I found no fancy graphical xml validator on OS X, but this isn’t a problem. OS X includes libxml which comes with xmllint. To validate a xml file against a schema: xmllint –noout –schema sitemap.xsd sitemap.xmlxmllint –noout –schema sitemap.xsd sitemap.xml

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