SalGnt

Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monitor (Original)

Update: I have heard that 10.8.3 has solved this problem for some people, so I rolled back my changes and installed the update. No change on my monitor. Nevertheless, it’d be a good idea to update OS X before trying this, since it may fix the issues with your particular hardware.

I recently bought a MacBook Pro (with ‘Retina’ screen), but when I hooked it up to my Dell U2410 monitor via HDMI cable I was shocked by the poor picture quality. The contrast was all wrong and text was misshapen. No amount of calibration in the monitor or software would fix it.

Short answer: OS X thinks my monitor is a TV, and is using the YCbCr colour space rather than RGB. I had to override an EDID setting to force the RGB colour space, and it is now working correctly.

Long answer: I haven’t owned a Mac for a while and h

benbalter

# Bulk convert shapefiles to geojson using ogr2ogr
# For more information, see http://ben.balter.com/2013/06/26/how-to-convert-shapefiles-to-geojson-for-use-on-github/

# Note: Assumes you're in a folder with one or more zip files containing shape files
# and Outputs as geojson with the crs:84 SRS (for use on GitHub or elsewhere)

#geojson conversion
function shp2geojson() {
  ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs crs:84 "$1.geojson" "$1.shp"
}

nitinhayaran

echo "Expanding the save panel by default"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true

echo "Why is this not default anymore?! Enabling full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3


echo "I'm in yer computer, hax0ring yr passwords!"
echo "Requiring password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins"
defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 1

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

johnjohndoe

KML to GPX converter

Download GPS data from Google Latitude

Google Latitude location history KML export is very interesting. GPS track log is easy to handle geotagging photos than Google Latitude KML data file. I wrote a perl program to convert from KML to GPX track log.

Google Latitude / KML data download

• Google Latitude

klarstil

#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -r "/usr/local/git" ]; then
  echo "Git doesn't appear to be installed via this installer.  Aborting"
  exit 1
fi
echo "This will uninstall git by removing /usr/local/git/**/*, /etc/paths.d/git, /etc/manpaths.d/git"
printf "Type 'yes' if you sure you wish to continue: "
read response
if [ "$response" == "yes" ]; then
  sudo rm -rf /usr/local/git/

phette23

# put this in your .bash_profile
if [ $ITERM_SESSION_ID ]; then
  export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033];${PWD##*/}\007"; ':"$PROMPT_COMMAND";
fi

# Piece-by-Piece Explanation:
# the if condition makes sure we only screw with $PROMPT_COMMAND if we're in an iTerm environment
# iTerm happens to give each session a unique $ITERM_SESSION_ID we can use, $ITERM_PROFILE is an option too
# the $PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable is executed every time a command is run
# see: ss64.com/bash/syntax-prompt.html

inhies

#!/bin/bash
# 
# Version 1.4
#
# twrp.sh -- a TWRP compatible backup script for your computer
# Brought to you by inhies
#
# This script creates TWRP compatible backups over usb using adb and magikz
# By default it makes a folder in the standard TWRP date--time format (I think)
# To restore these backups, place the folder in /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serialnumber>/

lgatto

getDependencies <- function(p,
                            rep = c("BioCsoft", "BioCann", "BioCexp", "BioCextra", "CRAN"),
                            biocVersion = "2.12",
                            depLevels = c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests"),
                            filter = TRUE) {
  rep <- match.arg(rep)
  if (rep == "CRAN") {
    rep <- getOption("repos")["CRAN"]
  } else {
    biocMirror <- getOption("BioC_mirror", "http://bioconductor.org")

rab

# -*- Conf -*-
[color]
	branch = auto
	diff = auto
	status = auto
        showbranch = auto
	ui = true

# color.branch
#     A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or