David Dennison (Search Riot) davidldennison

I was chasing down another issue (slow "Save As") and thought these two issues may have been related (with QuickLook being the common broken link). Unfortunately, my "Save As" dialog is still miserably slow on the initial load; but IconServicesAgent hasn't gone above 30MB and he rarely makes an appearance in the Console!

Some of these steps may not be necessary, but here are all of the steps I took that inadverdently put IconServicesAgent back in its place. Note: all commands are a single-line, if they appear to be multiple that's just the forum formatting.

Check for any QuickLooks related .plist files. In a terminal: mdfind com.apple.quicklook. -name .plist
I only had files at the system level (specifically within /System/Library/LaunchAgents/). If you have others, modify the directions below to take that into account (re-introducing plist files from the system level back up to the user).
Make some temporary directories to store these plist files, just in case: mkdir ~/tmp-quicklook

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title	date	author	source
Disable macOS Firewall Logging	April 9, 2017	Jon LaBelle	https://jonlabelle.com/snippets/view/markdown/disable-macos-firewall-logging

Steps for disabling macOS Firewall logging to the appfirewall.log file.

NOTE: Only disables logging, not the Firewall itself.

title	date	author	source
Disable macOS Firewall Logging	April 9, 2017	Jon LaBelle	https://jonlabelle.com/snippets/view/markdown/disable-macos-firewall-logging

Steps for disabling macOS Firewall logging to the appfirewall.log file.

NOTE: Only disables logging, not the Firewall itself.

macOS is a Unix, and not built on Linux.

I think most of us realize that macOS isn't a Linux OS, but what that also means is that instead of shipping with the GNU flavor of command line tools, it ships with the FreeBSD flavor. As such, writing shell scripts which can work across both platforms can sometimes be challenging.

Homebrew

Homebrew can be used to install the GNU versions of tools onto your Mac, but they are all prefixed with "g" by default.

All commands have been installed with the prefix "g". If you need to use these commands with their normal names, you can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH from your bashrc.

brew install pandoc
brew cask install basictex # takes a few minutes
sudo tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended
pandoc -f markdown -t latex ./myfile.md -o myfile.pdf

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap1 bs=1k count=1M
sudo mkswap /swap1 
sudo chmod 600 /swap1 
sudo swapon /swap1

# Make it permanent
echo '/swap1 none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

	#!/bin/sh

	curl $1 \| /usr/local/bin/bbedit


	# Call this script like so:
	# web2bbedit.sh http://www.barebones.com
	# This will open the Bare Bone Software homepage as HTML in BBEdit

	#
	# Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Vinay Sajip. New BSD License.
	#
	import os
	import os.path
	from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
	import sys
	from threading import Thread
	from urllib.parse import urlparse
	from urllib.request import urlretrieve

	For a more organised and more update list please visit https://github.com/RayZz-/LCU-Arguments
	This list will no longer be updated please refer to the repo linked above


	These are known command line arguments for the LCU(including helper) some maybe outdated
	or overtime may become outdated or some information maybe incorrect
	if you would like to contribute please comment with updated information.
	Usage example:
	--app-name=kappa