By default, macOS defaults to the SBC audio codec for Bluetooth headphones regardless of whether your headphones supports AAC or aptX. macOS itself, however, does support these codecs, it just needs enabling. In my case, I am using the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H9i that support the AAC codec, but this guide also includes a […]
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Easy Editor (ee) is one of my favourite built-in utilities from FreeBSD. It’s my preferred text editor (vs vi, vim, nano, pico etc). Thankfully it is easy enough to install it on CentOS 6 and 7 (tested on 2018.03.18). 1 – Prerequisites Firstly, you’ll need to install some prerequisites: yum install libX11 libXdmcp This command should install
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When updating your Mac, you usually have to go through the App Store to do it. This can be annoying because it takes around 20 minutes to do each update and you can’t use your Mac at the same time. But did you know there’s a way to do it via the command line interface?
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In this guide, we will be creating a guest WLAN/WiFi network and isolate it from your existing network by creating a guest VLAN and putting all devices on this VLAN on a operate subnet. This can be scaled to create numerous VLANs but we’ll just be creating two (your own network, and a guest network).
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This guide will walk through the steps required to block devices on your network from accessing your ISP provided router. This guide will specifically walk through the steps required to block a guest LAN from accessing the user interface of the Virgin SuperHub cable modem/router but it can be tweaked to your own requirements. Specific
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Occasionally even though you have specified your own name servers on your DrayTek router, the router does not reflect this change everywhere (for example on the DNS Security section) and instead forces you to use the DNS servers provided by your Internet Service Provider. This is, however, very easy to fix. First you’ll need to
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Sample Error: pkg(8) must be version 1.6.0 or greater, but you have 1.5.4. You must upgrade the ports-mgmt/pkg port first. Fix: cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg make deinstall reinstall
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TL;DR: To authenticate as sudo in Terminal, paste the following line into /etc/pam.d/sudo auth sufficient pam_tid.so Step-by-step Instructions: Firstly you’ll need to open /etc/pam.d/sudo in a file editor within Terminal. You can do this by running the following command: sudo vi /etc/pam.d/sudo Then, press the i key on your keyboard, this will allow you
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To bypass Gatekeeper and open an app when “App cannot be opened. You should move it to trash.” comes up, simply open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and run the following command: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/name of app.app You’ll need to replace name of app.app with the name of the application you’re trying
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On macOS, going to the System Profiler doesn’t give you the exact model number of your CPU, rather it just gives you the clock speed and the CPU branding (e.g; Intel Core i7). You can, however, use Terminal to find the exact model number of your CPU. Just open up Terminal (Applications > Utilities >
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