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I like all kinds of food.

Why I closed my facebook account

Posted on August 9, 2010 by dre

I’m writing this so I have something to link to, so I don’t have to keep answering the question over and over. Starting yesterday, I began to receive emails from various facebook friends, wherein they warned me that perhaps my … Continue reading →

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Somniac and a UI scripting quickie

Posted on August 4, 2010 by dre

Just about every time I want an AppleScript to wait a second or two during script execution, I instinctively insert a “sleep x” statement, where x is some small number of seconds. Every time, I’m surprised when I test the … Continue reading →

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GNU screen and white space, holy crap

Posted on July 27, 2010 by dre

GNU screen has been a key player in my workflow for a long time, and I’ve been putting up with a strange and very much undesired screen behavior for just about that long. I don’t fully understand the problem, but … Continue reading →

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SSL Passphrase in Mac OS X Server

Posted on July 8, 2010 by dre

Here’s a one-liner (spread across two lines for the 80 column internet) for mining Mac OS  X Server’s SSL passphrase out of Keychain: security dump-keychain -d /Library/Keychains/System.keychain | \ grep ‘”svce”<blob>=”Mac OS X Server certificate management”‘ -A 3 | tail … Continue reading →

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CalendarServer on Ubuntu 10.0.4 Desktop

Posted on June 23, 2010 by dre

“Why should I read this silly article when I can just install the CalendarServer .deb?!”, you might be thinking. That’s easy. That deb is release 1.2, which is like a million years old or something. Lots of great stuff has … Continue reading →

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VMWare Fusion 3.1 is way faster

Posted on June 2, 2010 by dre

Check this out. I ran the ‘openssl speed’ benchmark in Ubunto Desktop 10.0.4 in Fusion 3.0.2 and again in 3.1. The difference is pretty impressive.

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tumbling around…

Posted on May 22, 2010 by dre

I’m due for another semi-annual update or some such. Work is good; progress continues on the "Calendar and Contacts Server", which is unfortunately the official name of the open source version of our CalDAV / CardDAV service. I’ve been enjoying … Continue reading →

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Of logs and non-boot volumes

Posted on March 14, 2010 by dre

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning, and as you wait for the coffee to start working, you figure it’s probably about time that you started on those benchmark results that have to be done by Monday. You’re sitting there thinking “MAN … Continue reading →

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Automator: Variable stacking

Posted on February 12, 2010 by dre

Shortly after discovering the existence of variables as real drag-n-droppable objects in Applescript Studio, I ran smack into a big limitation: the linear flow of an Automator workflow does not seem to allow for storing and recalling multiple values at … Continue reading →

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LDAP client: local static and variable mappings

Posted on November 23, 2009 by dre

I was recently discussing Mac OS X / Active Directory integration with a friend, and one of the things I mentioned was the local static / variable mappings feature of the Mac OS X LDAPv3 plugin. After some fairly extensive … Continue reading →

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