http://www.benhall.com/doku/ 2026-05-12T20:10:00-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/ http://www.benhall.com/doku/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-09-06T05:17:20-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:automator_send_to_spam&rev=1346923040&do=diff Spam reports via Automator/AppleScript This is an Automator script to generate spam report emails utilizing some AppleScript code. Open it with Automator, change the recipient address, install it as a service, and set a keyboard short-cut (I use fn+ctl+alt+command+S). text/html 2010-02-22T05:45:39-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:change_time_machine&rev=1266835539&do=diff Time Machine w/new system If you don't know, when you upgrade your mac, your Time Machine existing backups will not work with the new system. Apple's intention is to apparently force you to format your external disk, or manually delete your existing backups, and start Time Machine ( text/html 2013-03-19T05:34:25-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:firestats_doku_plugin&rev=1363685665&do=diff Firestats Plugin for Dokuwiki It is noted in the code, but I'll repeat it here: This code is almost entirely copied from the Google Analytics plugin by Terence J. Grant. See his plugin page for details. Credit for the work should ostensibly be his- I merely deleted a few lines and changed a configuration name. text/html 2010-02-22T08:33:03-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:firestats_sed&rev=1266845583&do=diff steps to modify a published iweb site (with all html files in the root tree at least): * make a tmp dir like “rewrite”. * run sed to add the firestats code. * move files in rewrite to root dir and re-upload. the code looks like "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://benhall.com/firestats/js/fs.js.php?site_id=2'>" text/html 2010-02-22T08:11:03-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:lirc_on_a_mac&rev=1266844263&do=diff Setup of LIRC on a mac with IO USB dongle and Creative Infra serial receiver/remote Needs update * osascript is terribly slow, may need to move to scripting bridge or “appscript” at <http://appscript.sourceforge.net/objc-appscript/install.html> * TARball uploaded [ here ]with current script sources Etc. With prolific usb to serial adapter, download Prolific driver for GUC32 text/html 2013-04-10T04:36:34-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:multiple_skype&rev=1365582994&do=diff For some reason Skype on the Mac won't let you run multiple accounts or sessions. To run multiple Skype sessions/accounts at the same time: * Create a new non-administrative user (making it the same name as the Skype account might make remembering what it's for off in the future easier) text/html 2010-02-22T08:57:21-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:office_crack&rev=1266847041&do=diff These are really difficult to read, they were sort of on the fly notes while working to avoid the date expiration of some beta software, maybe. So, check the stack at break of McpDoBetaCheck, calling funcion is McpFInitMcp. Break on that function (break McpFInitMcp, then step (s) forward), disas the address, and start looking for the call to McpDoBetaCheck, can just look for the previous break point address or something, can't remember. text/html 2013-03-19T05:24:11-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:offsite_encrypted_backup&rev=1363685051&do=diff Remote backup to encrypted disk image with rsync This presumes you have access to an OS X host running sshd, and that you have already configured passphrase-less ssh keys to login to the remote host. * Login to your remote host * Create a subdirectory to store your files/mount your encrypted disk image text/html 2010-03-05T02:55:13-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:rdesktop_script&rev=1267775713&do=diff rdesktop w/keychain The purpose of this script is to securely (fairly) login to multiple remote desktop sessions at the same time, while using passwords stored in OS X's Keychain facility. Passwords can be stored as generic password types, the biggest caveat is that the format domain\username cannot be easily used. Username@domain can however, so store your account information in that format. text/html 2013-03-19T05:28:25-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:skype5_gdb&rev=1363685305&do=diff For some reason the Skype 5 for the Mac release has a minimum window height and width. It's very clearly un-liked by the masses, including myself. I have no idea of the legality or license breach or whatnot of running Skype in a debugger, but since there's no decompilation necessary to do this, I can't see the harm. text/html 2010-02-22T08:09:59-04:00 http://www.benhall.com/doku/doku.php?id=unix:osx:usb_file_systems&rev=1266844199&do=diff Some USB Drives cannot be formatted under Disk Utility For whatever reason, Disk Utility cannot format some USB connected drives correctly. The problem seems to be either a mis-read of the number of sectors (or other geometry) or cheap-o USB interfaces.