In my last post I described a VB Script for moving IMAP email from my inbox to an archive folder. As an interesting Apples to Oranges (or Apple to Microsoft?) comparison here is the Apple Script I use with Entourage to perform the same task. I will post two versions: one that performs the exact …
Category Archive: osx
Aug
16
2009
Nov
06
2008
Disabling file access time updates using noatime in OS X
The past few days people in Linux blogosphere have been bringing back up the noatime/nodiratime mount options. These options disable the updating of file and directory access times. On many standard systems when you read file a “last read,” or access time, timestamp is written to disk. Disabling the writing of access times can provide …
Oct
21
2008
My favorite shell completion of all time…
My favorite BASH shell completion of all time is hostname completion for all of my favorite commands: SSH_COMPLETE=( $(cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \ cut -f 1 -d ‘ ‘ | \ sed -e s/,.*//g | \ uniq | \ egrep -v [0123456789]) ) complete -o default -W “${SSH_COMPLETE[*]}” ssh scp sftp rsync nmap traceroute ping nslookup …
Oct
02
2008
Deleting All Messages in Exchange OWA
Ran into a problem with Exchange. I created a server-side rule to place spam messages in a folder that didn’t exist. All spam was instead going to the root folder, the folder above my inbox. Well if you use Entourage to access Exchange you will not be able to access this folder. If you go …
Jan
11
2008
A Real Mac User
Josh’s envy has spun out of control. First he puts OS X 10.4 on his Dell: I really don’t know why people think it is soooo hard to get OS X onto a Dell. Josh has been running 10.4 like this for about 6 months. Now he upgrades to Leopard: At this point I just …
Dec
21
2007
The “P” in PIM is for Collaboration (part 1)
I recently decided that the tried and trusted [1] personal information management tool I had been using, a G5 pen and a Levenger Circa, wasn’t doing much to manage the information on my computer. In actuality I had the paper notebook, Entourage, iPhoto, folder structures, del.icio.us, etc to manage all my information. For awhile I …
Nov
29
2007
Leopard and Webclips
I’ve been reading about webclips but was having a problem finding a real use for them. Webclips, you know, just right click in Safari and “Open in Dashboard”? I thought RSS met my needs. I just added some dynamic content to my sidebar, which may or may not still be there when you are reading …
Nov
10
2007
No Recorder Found?
Went to burn the new Fedora 8 DVD ISO to a disc today. Opened up Toast, selected the image file, and clicked record. Got a simple “No recorder found” error. Couldn’t figure out what it was. My first thought, one of those SoBs at work wanted to put one in their Dell. Perhaps Josh or …
Nov
03
2007
An Idea for Leopard’s Time Machine
You know what we be cool for Leopard developers and perhaps others? If Time Machine could start to handle backup snapshot trees. You know – like VMWare Workstation for Windows/Linux’s snapshot manager that supports branching. VMWare even supports the deletion of images in the middle to save space and perhaps enhance performance. It merges disks …
Oct
31
2007
Man… more Apple issues
I’ve been having tons of wireless network issues lately. At work, which is not surprising being I work at tech company – only God knows who is running what service on their laptop or who is running the microwave in the kitchen across the hall. More worrisome, I’ve been having issues at home too. So …
