Category: Mac OS X

Everything around Mac OS X

Get Oracle Database 23c for free on your Mac M1

Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is all over since Oracle released it yesterday. See the Official Oracle pages Oracle Database Free or the blog post by Gerald Venzl Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release. Connor McDonald even got a special delivery from Oracle. A few important web pages related to Oracle […]

Reduce PDF size in Mac OS Preview

Once and a while I have to create PDF’s out of my PowerPoint presentations. The same a couple of weeks ago when I finished my presentation on Oracle Transparent Sensitive Data Protection at the SOUG day in Baden-Dättwill. I prefer to do this with a minimal amount of extra tools. So no AcrobatReader, GostScript etc. […]

Using TouchID for sudo on macOS Sierra

A couple of days ago, I’ve received my new 15″ Mac Book Pro. So far I’m quite happy. Ok the the circumstance, that I have to carry around a bunch of adapters. I’m waiting for the first projector at customers with USB-C connection. But thats an other story. Initially I thought, that I will not […]

Get rid of Adobe PDF Viewer plugin in Safari

Recently I’ve had to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader on my MacBook Pro. As usual, I was in a hurry and had no time to complete the installation. Since then Safari will always use Acrobat PDF Viewer plugin to display PDF. Because I prefer using Mac OS Preview to view PDF files, it is time […]

Mac OS X Terminal Compatibility Settings

When switching from Mac OS Terminal.app to iTerm I realized that the

ps

does not work as expected. A

ps -ef

throws an error even if

man ps

shows an option for -f. It seems that the compatibility can be set with a environment variable COMMAND_MODE.