Asked about the timeline for Vista service packs, Ballmer quipped that as it is the highest-quality, most secure and reliable Windows operating system ever, there should be no need for a service pack.
I'll be back when I catch my breath again... seriously.
2006-11-17 which isn't so bad in itself. It's AppleScript's fault that it is a pain to format dates other than the system's preset. You just do aset dateString to (year of theDate) & "-" & (month of theDate as number) & "-" & (day of theDate)
2006-9-5 can't be parsed by Google Earth. The leading 0 is mandatory!? WTF!?on format_date(theDate)
tell theDate
set y to year as string
set m to (month of theDate as number) as string
if (count of m) is 1 then set m to "0" & m
set d to day as string
if (count of d) is 1 then set d to "0" & d
end tell
return y & "-" & m & "-" & d
end format_date
tell application "System Events"
if not UI elements enabled then
display dialog "GUI Scripting is not enabled. This script requires GUI scripting, click \"OK\" to enable."
set UI elements enabled to true
end if
end tell
~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (create folder if necessary).http://rss.mac.com/username/iWeb/Sites.rss~/Documents/SubEthaEdit Server Documents/ and turn the sharing on. Then it will periodically save all open documents. You can use SubEthaEdit from your client to connect. Try my SubEthaEdit Server!ssh in and do the following: Insert the CD. Run diskutil list to see wether the CD mounted and note the partition number (something like /dev/disk1s2 though the numbers will vary. Then to actually set the next boot drive use:sudo bless --device /dev/disk1s2 --setBootsudo reboot to restart. There is also a --mount option which will take the mount point, e.g. "/Volumes/Mac OS X Server Install/". To do a Netboot do:sudo bless --netboot --server bsdp://255.255.255.255255's with the NetBoot server's IP address if you want to boot off a specific server.bless command has another option --nextonly which will only remember the setting for one boot. Read the bless man page for more details.
Microsoft has announced its new iPod competitor, Zune. It says that this device is all about building communities. Are you worried?
In a word, no. I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable.
properties):includePlaylist : "Library" -- pick only songs from this playlist, use "Library" for all your songs, podcasts and songs which are marked 'Skip when shuffling' are ignored by defaultnumberOfTracks : 12 -- how many tracks should be added to the new playlistminimumRating : 20 -- only choose tracks with a rating higher or equal to this, note: 1 star in iTunes equals a rating of 20 (5 stars = 100)minimumMatch : 40 -- Audioscrobbler has a 'match' index for the artists from 100 downwards, describing how similar two artists are rated. ignore artists with a match rating lower than this.namePrefix : "Similar Tracks starting with " -- the new playlist will start with this string followed by the name of the artistfind yesterday and then I find this:find Command (+xargs)xargs thing I teased you with yesterday.
</body> tag. Sounds like a job for a script. Fortunately AppleScript has this great support for filtering and you can do that recursively through folders , too. Should be as simple asget every file of entire contents of iWebBaseFolder where name ends with ".html"
</body> tag and insert the code and save the file again. All of this is very painful in AppleScript.find /Volumes/idiskname/Web/Sites -name '*.html'
sed (stream editor) which takes a stream of characters and somehow manipulates this using the magic incantations of regular expressions and things that the sed man pages calls "functions" but which are basically single letters which are meaningful to the initiated and completely illegible to laypersons. Thankfully you can enter and nice search in Google (there it is again, I have no idea how I was able to learn programming entirely without Google) and find some examples:# substitute "foo" with "bar" EXCEPT for lines which contain "baz"
sed '/baz/!s/foo/bar/g'
sed -i .bak -e "/$textToInsert/!s/$textToReplace/$textToInsert&/g" filename
$ prefix denotes variables I defined earlier in the script to turn it into something close to legible. What this command does is: if a line does not (!) contain $textToInsert then substitute (s) $textToReplace with $textToInsert and append the text we orginally searched for ($textToReplace, &) globally across the document (g) filename and then write that into the file, keeping a copy with a .bak extension around in case all this gibberish happens out to pruduce... well gibberish.#!/bin/bash
googleAnalyticsCode='enter your Google Analytics code number here'
textToInsert="<script src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/urchin.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">_uacct = \"$googleAnalyticsCode\";urchinTracker();<\/script>"
textToReplace="<\/[Bb][Oo][Dd][Yy]>"
iWebBasePath='/Volumes/idiskname/Web/Sites'
# this is where the actual work happens
find $iWebBasePath -iname '*.html' -exec sed -i .bak -e "/$textToInsert/!s/$textToReplace/$textToInsert&/g" {} \; -print
-print at the end of the command so I can see which files the script is working on. Otherwise you would get no feedback at all.#!/bin/bash
googleAnalyticsCode='enter your Google Analytics code number here'
textToRemove="<script src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/urchin.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">_uacct = \"$googleAnalyticsCode\";urchinTracker();<\/script>"
iWebBasePath='/Volumes/idiskname/Web/Sites'
# this is where the actual work happens
find $iWebBasePath -iname '*.html' -exec sed -i .bak -e "s/$textToRemove//g" {} \; -print
.bak files (after testing of course):find /Volumes/arminb/Web/Sites -iname '*.bak' -exec rm {} \; -printxargs would be so much more efficient than -exec and that is true but I will leave that for another day.~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/ as Show Email From. Create the folder if necessary. Then (re-)start Address Book and click and hold on the label next to an email address. You can now select the Show Emails from option, which will open a new message browser window in Mail and fill out the search field to show emails from this email address only.return "Show emails from " & theName
return "Show emails to " & theName
click button "From" of window 1
click button "To" of window 1
Show Email To in the same folder. Restart Address Book.File Menu > New Viewer Window) is one of the 'unsung' features in Mail which really increases my productivity. If you aren't using that yet, then start remembering the keyboard shortcut (command-option-N) to your repertoire.