Category: Beep

• June 14, 2017

  MacOS terminal cursor navigation with a mouse

  File this under ‘I can’t believe I didn’t know this sooner’. Ever had to edit a long command in a terminal window? Certainly you can set things up so you can jump back and forward using the keyboard. But you can also option+click to move the cursor instantly – really handy for some commands. Also, […]
• February 6, 2017

  Using pv to view the progress of dd

  If you use dd for any kind of copying you’ll know how it’s not exactly forthcoming with information and it’s hard to tell if it’s doing anything. Some versions of dd have a status=progress parameter that will output progress information. Sadly this doesn’t exist on the native MacOS version. An alternative way of showing progress information […]
• January 8, 2017

  Yarn

  There’s another new toy from Facebook, this time called Yarn. Here’s how it went for me: Installed yarn with brew install yarn Typed yarn in my project directory Waited a while Committed changes to git All very easy. I’ve not yet experienced any of the benefits of yarn, but that’s probably just a question of […]
• January 4, 2017

  virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0

  So while fumbling about on my VPS I somehow managed to disable all networking. Using the VPS console I noticed this in /var/log/syslog: virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0 That doesn’t sound good. Sure enough, trying: ifup eth0 Returned: Failed to bring up eth0 Certainly explains the lack of network. After some digging about on […]