

But I’ll be following these instructions once I actually get my paws on it.) Homebrew – what’s this?
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(Now, in reality my shiny new MacBook Pro is waiting for me at home, while I’m in Palo Alto for my first week. But where’s automation potential there? If each one take 10 minutes to find and install, multiplied by say 50 (yeah, you’d be surprised how much stuff you install), that means I’m spending a chunk of my first week at work not figuring out the coffee situation ( seriously, that only makes it to #5? facepalm). There’s lots of reasons why, but fundamentally most application developers don’t agree with Apple’s T&C and know that most folks are happy to roam across to their website to chase down each app.
#Spotifree mac mac
The problem is only about 10% of the tools and applications I use on a Mac are listed in Apple’s walled garden. And yes, in fact, Apple’s App Store for Macs does something pretty similar – you log into your account and it lists all the apps you had previously installed via the App Store. Installing all your must-have apps on a smartphone is easy-peasy, especially if you’ve already been living in the same ecosystem with your previous phone. OS X has its App Store, which should in theory make this sort of menial task a breeze. So starting a new job means amongst many other (far more important) things, setting up your new work computer. If you get the chance to speak to anyone from this team at VMworld, your local VMUG, etc, then ask them why and take the time to listen carefully. Trust me, if you’re an architect or engineer responsible for designing and/or implementing VMware solutions in your datacenter, then the technology this team is working on will have a material impact on how you do what you do in the next couple of years. I’m sure I’ll be writing some articles here about what we’re up to in the coming months.

There’s lots of super interesting work going on there, and very cool, smart folks to learn from. I’ve joined VMware’s Validated Design team within the Integrated Systems business unit as one of their product managers. Yes, I’ve moved on from Coho Data (an awesome scale-out, high performance, high-bandwidth enabled, distributed, shared nothing, enterprise-class, freakishly good storage product – give them a call if you have storage needs for VMware, docker images, OpenStack, Big Data, etc). This is a post about Homebrew and Cask, two package management projects for OS X CLI and GUI applications respectively, and why they’re so useful when it comes to setting a new Apple Mac. You can also just quit and restart Safari itself if that is easier.Mac OS X “application installation automation” – now say that 3 times quickly! Maybe someday they will behave better if enough people complain how it makes their computers behave poorly.ĭo you typically have a lot of Safari tabs/windows open at the same time? This is very bad behavior in my opinion, and would recommend you complain to the website(s) that this happens in. This is very typical behavior for Safari - websites that try and cram so many ads down your throat and using more and more and more memory. Highlight that entry and then click the X icon in upper left corner of window to kill that process. You can kill that WebKit process by opening Activity Monitor and then clicking on the memory tab and then again click on the Memory column to sort the list by process consuming the most memory (you might see website names rather than the web content process name, so that makes it easier to identify which website is the culprit(s). WebKit is part of Safari - one of your Safari tabs is probably doing a lot of video based ads I would guess for the memory usage to be that high.
