Not exactly new, but since I’m the eggdrop maintainer for macports, and since I haven’t updated this port for almost 3 years… here ya go! Macports users may sudo port -d selfupdate to retrieve the updated Portfile (and new patch file). Details: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20198
Mac OS X makes extensive use of a variety of event notification mechanisms, as described here. One such mechanism is documented in the notify(3) man pages, and it is these types of libnotify notifications that are the focus of this post. Notifications can be posted and observed in a global namespace across all processes (with [...]
It’s “hack some shit up” Friday. Everybody ready? Have a Time Capsule or Mac OS X Server configured to provide network time machine backups? Of course you do! Let’s examine the client / server interaction. The Time Machine preference pane provides a list of available backup volumes. This list includes local volumes as well as [...]
motivation I finally found a reason to write some Python. Being something of a monitoring and data junkie, I’ve had a fair amount of experience with snmp, data mining scripts, etc. After writing this post to the server list, I figured I’d make some templates for snmp that published interesting pieces of data about the [...]
Link to google-soap I was helping my brother with a script called incith-google used by one of his IRC bots. It acts as a bridge between IRC and google, allowing IRC users to perform queries against google from the comfort of their IRC client. The script performs the search on the IRC user’s behalf and [...]
Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you simply prefer to keep your custom perl stuff all cinched up in a tidy homedir [...]
14:57 < sky> debian forked firefox? haha 15:00 -!- PowerUser [i=hollandp@nat/apple/x-c57695efe759d747] has quit ["Fly the white flag of war!"] 15:21 < dre^> lol, why? 15:24 < johnny-o> the inability to modify the artwork, if you can actually believe that 15:24 < dre^> LOL 15:24 < dre^> I can believe it, actually :) 15:24 < johnny-o> [...]
What with opendarwin closing down shop, this seems like a good time to mention that macosforge has seen some rather remarkable activity today. A pile of previously internal Apple bugs were exposed to the world for all to see (including one of mine). In my opinion, this is a really cool thing. The primary reason [...]
I learned a cool trick hack today in the process of trying to help somebody with their cocoa code. Dude was trying to fire an NSTask with some arguments for the current command, and then an additional argument that included the rest of a 3 or 4 stage pipeline. The command in question is /usr/bin/ldapsearch, [...]