Previously I put out an early version of my ruby based command line oriented tivo download script.
I’ve had a patch from MARK NOTARUS to make the menu have some more options and I’m using Console::ProgressBar from facets now.
It works well enough for my needs, but let me know if you hit any roadblocks. Just [...]
Category Archives: OS X
Place shifting action 3: Revenge of the Sith
3/20/2008 – 1:40 pm
Dave Dribin once again rocks
11/29/2007 – 10:42 am
Dave is having a rocking week. He started with the 1.0 version of his QLEncript plugin to get QuickLook to show color syntax highlighted code files. Here’s a quick screenshot of it in action on my laptop.
Today, to continue his rocking, Dave posted on Leopard’s ssh, ssh-agent, keychain interaction and ways to make it a [...]
Place shifting action 2
11/15/2007 – 5:50 pm
I’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…) I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library.
On [...]
Parallels Desktop is smart
6/21/2007 – 9:29 am
I’ve been using Parallel’s Desktop for OS X since it was first available. I just got my upgrade to the latest version. One of the things this version includes is the ability for the Mac to have the C: of windows (when running in a virtual machine) shared to the Mac like any [...]
CMake so far
3/27/2007 – 10:10 am
I’ve been investigating cmake at work as a better build system for our cross platform C based projects. I’m thinking about starting up a third one, so now is the prefect time to really go after this as for one project we have a build system per platform and on the other we have [...]
fortune for xscreensaver for OS X
10/31/2006 – 11:32 am
I love that jwz ported XScreenSaver to OS X at about the same time I moved to OS X for my laptop. I got to keep all the screen savers I use and have used over the past decade or so. Especially some of the cooler GL based ones. (Its also nice that [...]
OS X moving unix forward
6/30/2006 – 10:59 am
For every stupid hard coded Steve Jobism in OS X1, there’s some really awesome unix extentions I’d like to see elsewhere. The big one for me today has to do with DNS handling.
I’ve been playing with OpenVPN to get access to my network at home. Since I have a MacBook Pro from work, that’s [...]
Stupid Finder tricks
5/26/2006 – 11:46 am
As a unix geek, I like to see and sometimes browse /usr for various reasons. While I can do it from the command line, it would be nice to be able to do it in the Finder. Thanks to information I found in the article Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks [...]
color grep
5/23/2006 – 11:32 am
Every once in awhile I come across a feature of a piece of software, generally, a small utility that I hadn’t known about and that shows immediate value. Today Jon showed me the –color flag for GNU grep. It uses color to highlight the term you were searching for in the line returned. For example:
# grep [...]
Concatenate PDFs
5/3/2006 – 1:09 pm
I often like to print out many web pages to read on the train. To not waste paper I like to print them 2 up and double sided. If the printer supports it, I also like to staple the pages. On Linux, I use Firefox to print to postscript, then used a2ps to have [...]
