os x disk eject

Since 2006 I've been slightly frustrated by having to go to the desktop to eject removable media on my Mac laptop.

Finally I got round discovering the built-in diskutil command.

$ df -h
/dev/disk7s1   1.8Gi  1.8Gi   71Mi    97%    /Volumes/CANON_DC

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk7
Unmount of all volumes on disk7 was successful

Much nicer than sync... sync... pull.

wine on os x - almost just worked.

I needed to run some windows only stats software on os x (WinBUGS/OpenBUGS).

The authors suggested running it in wine.

port install wine

That almost worked. MacPorts can't seem to deal with upgrades of anything at all, so I ended up getting rid of the macports directory and building everything from scratch.

Then, it worked. Really well.

I was surprised. I guess wine has got a lot better in the 10 years since I last tried to use it. And maybe this program was simple enough that it didn't trip on anything fancy.