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Enable missing disclosure triangles in Finder

The problem is with the arrangement chosen for the list view.  Using any of the following methods, choose Arrange By | None : The View menu from menubar The gear icon in the Finder window The contextual menu (right + click mouse button) The Finder in Mac OS X is the application is always running and provides access to the file system of the computer.  This is the Windows Explorer on Windows systems, or something like Nautilus on Gnome -based Linux systems.  The primary interface is a folder paradigm that presents files and folders in a number of different views. On the Mac, these views are icons, list, columns, and Cover Flow .  To the Finder, the list view is a "stacked" presentation of the files with alternating background colors and a nice feature Apple calls a " disclosure triangle ."  This control is present on directory items, and when clicked, will either expand the listing to show a nested view of the contents of that folder or...

Forcing Mac OS X to use custom install of Git

UPDATE:   What may be a simpler approach is to edit the /etc/paths file by adding an entry for /usr/local/git/bin at the top of the file.  It seems that the solution presented in this article does not persist. Updating the PATH variable will allow Mac OS X to be able to find the binary from a custom install of Git .  Apple ships a version of Git with Xcode , but its version may lag behind Git's releases.  As such it may be desirable to use the official version from Git itself.  The Git installer puts the binary at /usr/local/git/bin which is not in the PATH variable. Starting with at least version 10.9 of Mac OS X, Git has had the unfortunate problem of not being invoked with the "conventional" commands from the terminal.  That is to say, running the command git status , for example, would generate an error stating: The "git" command requires the command line developer tools. This cue is helpful if Git isn't already installed on the system....

Ubuntu calendars

Canonical is nice enough to publish a series of Google Calendars  to the public for Ubuntu .  A couple of the more interesting ones can be found at the following. Ubuntu Fridge Calendar http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ Ubuntu Release Calendar http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ubuntu-release-calendar/ The second one is of particular interest since while Canonical has made it a practice to release the next version of its OS on a rigid interval, the actual release dates aren't always easy to find.  This is a nice place to find them as soon as they;re scheduled. Additionally, the following wiki page identifies the details of the current releases. Releases https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Allow Windows authentication using SQL Server driver with DBeaver

DBeaver will allow Microsoft Windows single sign on access when connecting to Microsoft SQL Server using the SQL Server driver (rather than jTDS ).  From the driver properties settings, set the integratedSecurity flag to true . Open the Connection configuration panel and choose the Driver properties section. Set the integratedSecurity flag to true . A subtle, but important step is to not provide username and password credentials to the connection.

List all branches in GitEye History view

By default, GitEye only shows the other branches the checked out branch has been merged with.  There is a way however, to show all the branches.  In the History view, select the button that looks like a downward pointing Y.  The tool tip on this button is "Show All Branches and Tags" and clicking it will show or hide all the branches and tags this particular branch is unassociated with. The "Show All Branches and Tags" button. Assume a repository has 4 branches, A, B, C, and D, but branch D has only been merged with branches B and C.  This means that the history for D will only show B, C, and D items.  Sometimes though, it may be necessary to compare the checked out branch with branch A even though the two have never been merged.  This control will expose those other items and the diffs can be made.

Email's 'carbon copy' issue

It seems obvious to many, but given the prevalence of the issue, it's not to most.  The problem:  sending a message to a mailing list in the "Cc" field.  Why is it a problem?  The email address of each person on the mailing list is now exposed to each of the other members on the list. For those who don't know, email clients have an additional field other than the "To" field to indicate the recipients of the message with.  This has colloquially been dubbed the carbon copy, or "Cc" field. In a similar way that email programs have the "Cc" field, they also have a "Bcc" field, or blind carbon copy.  The effect of the "Bcc" field is the same as the "Cc" field except for one crucial detail.  The address of each recipient is not exposed to each of the other recipients. Enter addresses one at a time, or use a mailing list just like either the "To" or "Cc" fields.  An individual message ...

Labels used by this publication

This is a summary of the types of labels used by this publication.  The term label can also be referred to as a tag and the two terms are used interchangeably. The types of labels are defined as the following: Language (technology) Development application ( IDE , database manager client, et cetera) Protocol ( FTP , LDAP , et cetera) Browser Concept (OOP, refactoring, continuous integration) Examples of tags might be:  PHP , ColdFusion , or MySQL , where PHP and ColdFusion are development languages and MySQL is a database manager.  Command line tools like Git would also have a tag. Labels that are not used are ones that refer to specific products or companies such as:  IBM , Gmail , or Flickr . These distinctions are made for two reasons.  The first is to stress the emphasis of the publication on development.  The second is to help limit the volume of tags that would certainly build up and thereby just create noise in the tagging mechanis...