Terminal Tinkering

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TT8: A High Sierra USB installer, Raspberry Pi AirPrint server, and tmutil Oct 26, 2017

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It’s time for another installation of Terminal Tinkering, and this week your host Jeff Butts has plenty in store. Watch and learn about tmutil, using a Raspberry Pi as an AirPrint server, and creating a USB installer for macOS High Sierra.

This week on Terminal Tinkering, your host Jeff Butts demonstrates how to create a USB installation drive for macOS High Sierra. Then he explains and shows you how to turn a Raspberry Pi computer into an AirPrint server, and how to use the tmutil command on High Sierra to manage Time Machine local snapshots of your APFS volumes. https://youtu.be/gp6tdSgkrcM

TT7: Helpful Terminal commands, Homebrew, and ffmpeg Oct 20, 2017

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Tune in for another episode of Terminal Tinkering, and learn about helpful Terminal commands, Homebrew, and the video tool ffmpeg.

This week, we go over some interesting and useful Terminal commands. We also look at the missing macOS package manager, Homebrew, and do some video conversion using ffmpeg. If you're too slow to write them down (just kidding), here are the Terminal commands I showed you:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool TRUE
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "Are you sure you're supposed to be here?"
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'

https://youtu.be/J2PlX0WsbaM

TT6: Compiling sudo and nano, XikiHub with Craig Muth Oct 12, 2017

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Join Jeff Butts once again, and he’ll show you how to compile sudo and nano in FreeBSD, plus introduce you to XikiHub, a new Terminal/command line product taking shape at Kickstarter.

Join Jeff Butts for another episode digging beneath the hood of your computer. He'll walk you through compiling sudo and nano in FreeBSD. Next, he interviews Craig Muth, the developer behind Xiki and the new XikiHub campaign. Be sure to back XikiHub on Kickstarter and help this amazing project come to life. https://youtu.be/y0b_7S_FnOs

TT5: Set Up Third-Party Drivers and Unsigned Apps in macOS, Plus Ports in FreeBSD Oct 05, 2017

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It’s time for another episode of Terminal Tinkering, and this week Jeff Butts takes you on a tour of the dark and mysterious roads of third-party drivers for Hackintosh, unsigned apps for macOS, and the Ports Collection in FreeBSD.

Time for another episode of Terminal Tinkering. This week, Jeff shows you how to install third-party drivers on your Hackintosh. Then he cautiously rushes in where angels fear to tread, explaining the pitfalls of installing unsigned apps but showing you how to do it anyways. To round out the episode, he dives into the Terminal, makes his way into his FreeBSD-running Power Mac G5, and explains all about the Ports Collection and how to install it. The links included in this week’s episode are:

https://youtu.be/TnD1vBx5mwc

TT4: The Skylink ATOMS Garage Door Opener, a Few Minutes of vi, and a Tour of Clover Configurator Sep 28, 2017

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Learn about a cool smart garage door opener, the essentials of the vi editor, and how to use Clover Configurator on your Hackintosh.

In this episode of Terminal Tinkering, Jeff Butts shows you the Skylink ATOMS Garage Door Opener and how it can revolutionize your quality of life. Then he spends a few minutes teaching you the basics of the vi editor, rounding things off with a quick tour of Clover Configurator. https://youtu.be/LzDZopoUMAg

TT3: Creating the High Sierra USB Install Disk for a Hackintosh and Installing FreeBSD On a Power Mac G5 Sep 21, 2017

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If you’re ready to start installing your Hackintosh or breathing new life into an older Mac, this episode’s for you.

In this episode of Terminal Tinkering, Jeff Butts shows you how to create a High Sierra USB install disk for a Hackintosh. Then he dives into OpenFirmware on a Power Mac G5 to show you how to install FreeBSD on that aging Mac you're not quite ready to put out to pasture yet. https://youtu.be/6vmlEMw6-a0 When you create the install disk for your Hackintosh, you'll need some files beyond what the High Sierra installer loads onto your USB drive. These are:

The Clover bootloader. Download it from SourceForge
An APFS driver, found on InsanelyMac
Rehabman's FakeSMC fork
Intel Mausi Ethernet drivers from InsanelyMac (if you have an Intel 100-series motherboard)

TT2: The Arduino Thermometer Sep 14, 2017

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It’s time to have some fun with Arduino, and see one very useful purpose you can fill with the microcontroller technology.

Welcome back to another episode of Terminal Tinkering. This week, Jeff Butts walks you through how he went about building and programming his own thermometer using Arduino, as well as a custom-built app to communicate with the thermometer from his iPhone 7 Plus. https://youtu.be/wznXoFNxDOI The code used in this episode can be downloaded from Jeff's Arduino Thermometer Github repository.

TT1: UNIX on Older Macs, the TMO Hackintosh, and Recording Your iOS Screen Sep 07, 2017

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In the first episode of Terminal Tinkering, Jeff Butts dives right into technology new, old, and different.

Welcome to the first episode of Terminal Tinkering, the podcast where Jeff Butts tinkers with older and newer Macs, plays around with electronics, and tries not to break things so badly he can't fix them again. In this episode, Jeff will help you decide on a flavor of UNIX for your older, PowerPC-based Mac and then he'll tell you about the TMO Hackintosh, Valtur. To finish things off, Jeff shows you two ways you can record the screen from your iOS device using your Mac (or Windows PC, with one way). https://youtu.be/BFRutIW4EhU