Java
Some time ago I wrote a post on how to brew and manage multiple (Adopt)OpenJDK versions on your mac - which is my current java setup. Premised so, lately I wanted to install STM32CubeMX on my (freshly formatted) laptop and I incurred in this friendly error: Andreas-MacBook-Pro:~ a.leofreddi$
macOSX
Using homebrew It's super easy to install any JDK version from the adoptopenjdk builds: Andreas-Mac-mini:installer a.leofreddi$ brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk ==> Tapping adoptopenjdk/openjdk Cloning into '/Users/a.leofreddi/Applications/homebrew/Library/Taps/adoptopenjdk/homebrew-openjdk'... remote: Enumerating objects: 24, done. remote: Counting objects: 100%
macOSX
On Mojave, I ran into a situation while trying to install CryptX via CPAN: "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- CryptX.bs blib/arch/auto/CryptX/CryptX.bs 644 "/usr/bin/perl" "/System/Library/Perl/5.18/ExtUtils/xsubpp&
Unix
Often (and especially when scanning documents with my printer) from MacOSX I would get unreasonable huge PDFs which are not suitable for emails. To strip them down without pain one can use ghostprint: gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf To get gs installed,