Category Archives: OS X

Apple airport base station monitor

Posted on April 27, 2007 by dre

Download. {1} andre@dude [~] % airport -h Program Options: -h print this help -d output in comma delimited format (base station ID lines are designated by ‘*’) -v verbose mode (stacks up to 3 times) –encode Specify plaintext to retrieve … Continue reading →

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The opposite of split is cat.

Posted on January 2, 2007 by dre

/usr/bin/split and /bin/cat, that is. Why is this useful information? Let’s imagine a wonderful world in which your web host gives you oodles of bandwidth and disk quota, and then one day secretly enacts a policy that disallows access to … Continue reading →

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Installing perl modules locally

Posted on December 6, 2006 by dre

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 … Continue reading →

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VLC and wireless networks

Posted on October 27, 2006 by dre

I typically keep all my digital media on either my desktop at home or my server, but I like to watch it on the laptop while reclining in my papasan chair, or perhaps just kicked back in bed. The problem … Continue reading →

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Decrypting afp mount strings

Posted on September 15, 2006 by dre

{10} andre@werk [~] % mount | grep /Volumes/andre afp_006Af01nOUmc001Eic06SdO0-1.2c0000ae on /Volumes/andre (nodev, nosuid, mounted by andre) Huh? how helpful is that! How can I tell what server it came from? Yeah, I could netstat, but what if there’s a bunch … Continue reading →

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Spotlight indexes on read-only media

Posted on September 8, 2006 by dre

Here’s a way to let spotlight do a full content index of a read only CD. It can even persist across uses :) #!/bin/sh # pass in the name of the r/o volume, e.g. DiskWarriorCD # this is proof of … Continue reading →

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adduser script for Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server

Posted on July 9, 2006 by dre

http://www.dreness.com/bits/tech/adduser.html (syntax colored) http://www.dreness.com/bits/tech/adduser (raw)

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Modifying nested property list items with PlistBuddy

Posted on May 30, 2006 by dre

The /usr/bin/defaults command gives us basic command line access to the Mac OS X preferences system. I say ‘basic’ because it provides no facility for directly operating on any keys / values that are not at the top of the … Continue reading →

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Managing dual boot Macs

Posted on May 30, 2006 by dre

How I learned to stop worrying and image / restore those dastardly windows NTFS partitions: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html

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The Journeyman’s Guilde to Quicktime Presentations

Posted on April 29, 2006 by dre

This guide will demonstrate a method for creating multi-track, multi-media, self-contained quicktime movies. A good example of this would be the presentation format where there are multiple tracks of media that need to be coordinated with specific timings. Perhaps there … Continue reading →

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