Program Documentation

documentation.help is a documentation hosting platform specializing in windows documentation files. By converting “.chm” windows help files into html format, they become viewable and searchable on the web so programming questions can be answered more easily. Documentation.help contains a wide variety of help documentation from late 90s help files from pre-Windows XP computers to the … Read more

ulimit flags, commands, and help

help ulimit ulimit: ulimit [-SHacdefilmnpqrstuvx] [limit] Modify shell resource limits. Provides control over the resources available to the shell and processes it creates, on systems that allow such control. Options: -S use the `soft’ resource limit -H use the `hard’ resource limit -a all current limits are reported -b the socket buffer size -c the … Read more

gifsicle:: is a terminal

gifsicle:: is a terminal You need to specify output using the -o flag: gifsicle -O3 input.gif -o output.gif The above code can be used to optimize gif files. gifsicle:: is a terminal For this issue, you need to be sure you are specifying an input file

Better Key Rates – OSX

Set better keyboard repeat rates with the following commands in terminal. Before running the commands set your Key Repeat and Delay Until Repeat to the fastest options (System Preferences->Keyboard). #disable special characters when holding keys defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms) defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -float 10.0 defaults … Read more

Change Mac Address of Network Cards in OSX

Give yourself a fresh mac address. Generate a random valid MAC: openssl rand -hex 6 | sed ‘s/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//’ Set it: sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 Obviously you’ll need to replace 00:00:00:00:00:00 with your generated mac address. Don’t mind the openssl error “unable to write ‘random state’”. It worked just fine.

Extracting iconcache / thumbcache db files

Update: Unfortunately, thumbsdb.tools has been retired, to extract images from thumbs.db files, we recommend https://thumbsviewer.github.io/ iconcache and thumbcache db files are small database files created by Windows in order for users to quickly preview files and folders stored on their computer. These files are essentially filled with tiny preview-versions of all the files in the … Read more