Sendmail on Jaguar

September 23, 2002 – 12:00 am

For future reference: configuring sendmail on Jaguar.

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#!/usr/bin/perl: the sitcom

August 3, 2002 – 12:00 am

Fan fiction about, um, people like you and me.

Tony: OK. But in the worst case you can rewrite it from scratch?
Paul: And who will save me from the hit-men that Joel Sposlky is going to send to kill me?

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Notes on Connecting to the Shell from AppleScript

July 16, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via MacNewsWire ] How to talk to the Unix shell from AppleScript.

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Coming Soon: Berkeley DB XML

June 14, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via XML Database JuJu ] XML hackers rejoice! Sleepycat software is working on an extension to the Berkeley DB for storing and accessing XML data.

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Links Web Browser

June 11, 2002 – 12:00 am

Links takes Lynx up a notch with support for tables and frames. There’s a package installer for OS X.

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Virtual workspaces for Mac OS X

June 10, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Pigs and Fishes ] Space.app, the virtual desktop system for OS X is now a project at SourceForge. Real estate on an iBook screen is scarce, even with Mozilla’s tabbed browser.

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Keep Radio running on MacOS X

May 28, 2002 – 12:00 am

Paolo Valdemarin set up a cron job to keep Radio running on OS X.

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Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 6

April 23, 2002 – 12:00 am

Kevin, i.e. Morbus, has another installment in his series on using the Apache server that comes with Mac OS X. This one covers the various modules you can turn on from httpd.conf, and why you’d use them.

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Microsoft’s Anti-UNIX FUD backfires

March 30, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via MetaGrrrl ] Look out! Microsoft’s launching another media campaign to bullyrag IT departments into buying Win2K for the server side.
Update: Cam reports that the ad campaign’s web site was running BSD/Apache. Let’s see how fast Microsoft changes that.
Update: Flutterby reports that the wehavethewayout site was returning IIS server errors. I checked it this [...]

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CopyPath for OS X

March 17, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Studio Log ] CopyPath is a contextual items (control-click) item which allows you to copy the Unix or HFS path to any item you select in the finder. It’s awesome.

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The Little OS

March 2, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Borklog via Flutterby ] There are certain amoung you who think that a certain manufacturer of computer hardware and software in Cupertino, California is a cult. Okay, just wait until we start slipping ads in the copies of Watchtower.

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User has read, write, and execute permissions on their underpants

February 26, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via The Muted Horn ] Mac OS X has UNIX underpinnings. Jason Fox has UNIX underpants.

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Finder Mail: mh for Classic Mac

December 7, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via Need to Know ] When I was a graduate student, I used mh and emacs to handle my mail. And I indexed all my mailboxes with WAIS (thanks Thinking Machines). You can return to those glory days with Finder Mail for Mac OS 9. It downloads mail to the file system. You can [...]

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Mounting Apple File Protocol Volumes from the Shell

December 2, 2001 – 12:00 am

Mac OS X hint on how to mount AFP volumes from the shell: useful for backup scripts, etc.

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PHP interface to UNIX cron

November 3, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via Anil Dash ] A web interface to cron built out of PHP. This scares me. You really need to think about securing your site before deploying something like this.

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