OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action	Notes
⌘+⇧+4	Screen capture of user defined screen	Saves the screenshot on the Desktop
Document Shortcuts
Fn+Left Arrow	Home: Scroll to the beginning of a document.
Fn+Right Arrow	End: Scroll to the end of a document.
Fn+Up Arrow	Page Up: Scroll up one page.
Fn+Down Arrow	Page Down: Scroll down one page.
mc - Midnight Commander
Esc+c	Quick cd (M-c)	Change directory
Esc+s	Search/Go to directory

Legends

⌘	Command
⌥	Option
⇧	Shift
⌃	Control

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

http://www.osxkeyboardshortcuts.com/keyboard-symbols.html

Under construction.

References:

https://gist.github.com/sgergely/3793166

How to view Console.WriteLine output in Xamarin Studio UI Test

To view Console.Write/Console.WriteLine output from within Xamarin Studio UI Test, do:

1. If Unit Test pad/window is not visible, using App menu, do View | Pads | Unit Tests. 
2. On a test that passed (e.g., ), select test and right click, then select Show results pad ( )

Resize OS X El Capitan HD to full size

Got OS X El Capitan running inside VMware Fusion 8. The default drive size is around 40GB and I wanted to change it to 120GB. Disk Utility seems like the tool to do the job but is not working properly. To resize, do:

$ sudo disktuil resizeVolume / R

Reference(s):
 https://themacwrangler.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/resizing-el-capitan-mac-volumes-under-vmware-fusion/

The Maximum Log Size specified is not valid when changing Windows Event Viewer log size

When changing Application Windows Event Log maximum size and you are seeing the message below then it is possible that it is set by group policy (local or Active Directory).

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Event Viewer
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The Maximum Log Size specified is not valid. It is too large or too small. The Maximum Log Size will be set to the following:  1028 KB
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OK  
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This behavior can be modified allow changes via Windows Event View application. To do so open Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). Then navigate to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Event Log Service | Application (for example) then change Maximum Log Size (KB) to Not configured.

Note that you need to be an administrator to make the changes.

Running Python one liner

Running on liner Python is sometimes just fells awesome, practice with caution though. Below spits out uuid4 using Python one liner.

c:\> ipy -c "import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())"

Reference(s):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043453/executing-python-multi-line-statements-in-the-one-line-command-line

Enable ClearType using Python

When I remote desktop to Windows machines most of the time the fonts just looks ugly. This can be improved by enabling ClearType and I do this every time I connect to a box which I do several times a day. Below is a Python code that enables ClearType which I shamelessly copied from StackOverflow.

Reference(s):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5676768/enable-disable-cleartype-in-windows7

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does not boot to GUI after upgrade

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed kernel update as of 3/31/2016 does not boot to the UI anymore. This was observed on VirtualBox 5.0.16. Workaround is to pass iomem=relaxed to the kernel, see below for details.

1. Reboot the machine.
2. During the boot-up press e at the screen below.
   
3. Look for the line with linux and add iomem=relaxed
   

Reference:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/514436-X-server-not-starting-after-update