Evan Toliopoulos evantoli

Handbrake and libdvdcss on Mac OSX

A recent release of Mac OS X removes libdvdcss.2.dylib from the /usr/lib directory location.

A solution is to copy it into /usr/local/lib

For Blu-Ray

I first installed MakeMKV. Then I create two symbolic links:

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:


	REM I created a variation of this script because after years of working exclusively in the
	REM in the Linux/Unix world I had to suddenly remote into six separate Windows Servers
	REM which had no real, usable, shell. Not even powershell. Everything was done via many sluggish
	REM mouse clicks on several open windows (themselves within the open remote desktop windows).
	REM I was going mental navigating via the explorer window so wanted to be able to create
	REM and re-create some shortcuts on all the environments.

	del /Q %USERPROFILE%\Links\*.lnk