The Power Of CTRL+T

Did you know that you can check what a process is doing by pressing CTRL+T? Has it happened to you before that you were waiting for something to be finished that can take a lot […]

How To Check Internet Connection On a Mac

People find me with various questions about computers. I decided to create a video how to check internet connection on a Mac hoping to help the ones in need. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9u_ZQoPQvY]    

El Capitan, Xcode 7.2, MacPorts

In case you are wondering why some ports fail to build after upgrading to El Capitan or upgrading Xcode to version 7.2 here is the detailed answer: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xcode7.2 In my case issuing a simple chmod and chown […]

Bandwidth limiting on OS-X [Yosemite, El Capitan or *BSD]

Since Yosemite OS-X is not using ipfw but pf. So if you’re using those ipfw commands to limit your bandwidth, well… they won’t work. You’ll have to learn and implement some pf rules. The usage of […]