Recover broken sdcard
When playing with sdcards they sometimes turn up broken. If inserted in my macbook ‘s sdcard slot I get a message saying the card is not properly initialised. If I do try...
Tag: mac
Unpack a .gz compressed file on Mac OS X
Just a reminder for myself. For unpacking .gz files on OS X unzip and tar won’t work. gunzip is the command you need. More information for other operating systems and more options...
dd: Resource busy on mac
If you want to create a 1 on 1 copy of some disk you might get this error: dd: /dev/disk1s1: Resource busy Solution is to unmount any partitions of that disk without...
exit screen command mac OS X
The screen command on mac OS X is great for working with serial devices. An example looks like this: screen /dev/tty.usb123 It did take me quite some time to find out how...