How To Bounce the Dock Icon For All Incoming Email on MacOS

Author: , November 2nd, 2021

I needed a way to get the dock icon to bounce for all incoming emails and there did not seem to be any option to do so. There is actually a simple way to do it, but it is not intuitive. The key is to add a new Rule! Open Mail.app and choose Mail -> […]

How To Restart a Hung Top Menu Bar in MacOS

Author: , April 23rd, 2021

Ever get the spinning beachball when trying to access the top menu on your Mac? SOLUTIONS Use the GUI Open the Activity Monitor application Select All Processes from the View menu Click on the SystemUIServer process, then click Force Quit. ~or~ Via CLI In Terminal, execute killall SystemUIServer

How To Force csshX To Tile In Columns

Author: , May 28th, 2019

I use csshX on a daily basis. The default layout on my screen for three nodes is one column with three rows, one per node. This layout is excellent for visual positioning, but does make it harder to read long output. For this purpose, I start csshX using the column quantity specifier -x and I […]

How To Force Sendmail to Process the Mail Queue

Author: , August 4th, 2016

To force sendmail to process the mail queue, execute as root: sendmail -q -v The optional -v enables verbose mode to assist with troubleshooting. To display the current contents of the mail queue, execute as root: mailq

How To Fix “dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache”

Author: , July 28th, 2016

MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard running on a Mac Pro 2009 8-way After a system crash, using the backup drive, this error started to appear: dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache To fix it, execute the following in Terminal: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force As always, YMMV!

How To Force WordPress to Connect to the Database via TCP

Author: , October 2nd, 2013

wp-config.php

How To Force a Pretty Display Name in WordPress

Author: , September 4th, 2012

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

How To Force Apache To Use https

Author: , October 26th, 2011