Re: Homebrew and ffmpeg and x265, oh my!

[Arno Hautala]

 On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:21 AM @lbutlr  wrote:
>
>  # brew install ffmpeg  --with-x265
>
> No sign of the x265 library. Any ideas?


I'm not very familiar with HomeBrew, it looks like it's downloading a
precompiled binary. I wouldn't expact that to have custom options enabled.
It also looks like the files were installed to the Cellar, but should there
be an activation step where they are linked to the 'bin' directory?
You could try instead:

# port install ffmpeg

;-)

x265 is a default variant for macOS 10.6+

Possibly more helpful in this case, I came across this gist [1] that
includes a command at the end to install all available options:

# brew install ffmpeg $(brew options ffmpeg | grep -vE '\s' | grep --
'--with-' | tr '\n' ' ')

[1]: https://gist.github.com/clayton/6196167

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Re: iOS apps without iTunes

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 1:54 PM Macs R We  wrote:
>
> Apple is now preparing boxcars.

Sure that's an entirely reasonable analogy to draw here.
I've got the address for osx-nutters around here somewhere.

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Re: iOS apps without iTunes

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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:41 AM Neil Laubenthal  wrote:
>
> So now that iTunes doesn’t do apps anymore…when you get a new iOS device is 
> downloading all the apps again the only way to restore it? I’ve always used 
> local instead of iCloud backups due to bandwidth limitations of living in an 
> RV…and while I can go to the Apple store and download everything again that 
> seems harder than it needs to be since all the apps are still in Mobile 
> Applications on my laptop. I know that Apple Configurator 2 can do backups 
> and restores…but does anybody know if it will restore the apps from the 
> laptop vice from the App Store if I did a backup and restore to a new iOS 
> device?

I was hopeful that Configurator would be my solution as well. Maybe in
the future Apple will add this feature. For now though, you can
download an older version of iTunes that Apple continues to make
available [1] and it won't bother you to upgrade. They even seem to be
updating it to some degree. The original release was 12.6.3, but
12.6.4 is currently available. I'm almost exclusively using iTunes
just to maintain a backup of apps so I don't mind missing out on new
features for now. It unfortunately doesn't look like you can have both
installed at the same time. I wonder if it will continue to be
available for Mojave?

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208079

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Re: antivirus/malware ?

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Macs R We  wrote:
>
>> On Jan 9, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Michael  wrote:
>>
>> Can you please explain how downloading a bit torrent file from a known good 
>> seed is any different than downloading a file directly from a known source?
>>
>> (I seriously thought it was effectively equivalent, other than speed issues)
>
> The question is similar to asking why buying a known good Rolex from a guy on 
> a street corner is any different than buying it from a storefront jeweler.  
> The answer is that while it's theoretically possible that street-corner guy 
> has a genuine, warrantied Rolex, it's socially unlikely.  Torrenting is a 
> technique used to minimize the originator's hosting costs by mooching off his 
> other customers.  It's the turf of students and fly-by-nights.  Legitimate 
> suppliers tend to make the minimal storefront-level investment needed to 
> carry their own weight.

I read this example less like buying off a street corner and more
buying from Amazon.
Further, the original scenario was a file from a "known good seed". I
read that like downloading from a good source, like the perennial
downloading a Linux ISO. That known good seed would have been
something like Ubuntu.org. There have been other companies that use
bittorrent to distribute legitimate software or updates as well.
(Blizzard?)

The problem with downloading software from bittorrent is the
implication that it is not coming from the original source. It's
presumed that the software is pirated or cracked in some manner.

But unless there is some ready exploit to generate the hash collisions
necessary to alter the payload, there is nothing inherently dangerous
about downloading anything via bittorrent. The issue is what you are
downloading. Pirated software or un-authorized distribution of
audio-video media may indeed come along with or be entirely composed
of malware. But that's no different whether you're downloading via
bittorrent, file-locker, web forum, hotline, ftp, or newsgroup. A
shady software source is going to risk supplying shady software.

Then again, presumably trustworthy sites like SourceForge and
MacUpdate have been known to alter the software payload or
installation mechanism to provide nefarious wares as well.

It's a dangerous network out there.

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Re: Getting a command to move to the time machine backup of working dir

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Michael  wrote:
>
> keybounceMBP:AdultSwim michael$ pushd "$(tmutil latestbackup)""$(/bin/ls -d 
> "$(find /Volumes/ -maxdepth 1 -type l -print)" | sed 
> 's/\/Volumes\///')""$(pwd -P)"
> -bash: pushd: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/Keybounces MacBook 
> Pro/2017-09-27-172133/New Main/Volumes/Kleiman Movies/Videos to 
> watch/TV/AdultSwim: No such file or directory
> keybounceMBP:AdultSwim michael$
>
> New Main/Volumes/ does not belong :_)

I get it now. If you're on the boot volume, you want to add that name
to the path. If you're on a different volume, you need to remove
"/Volumes".
The following should do that. It also uses pipes instead of slashes in
the sed commands; it reads better.

push \
"$(tmutil latestbackup)" \
"$(pwd -P | \
sed \
-e 's|/Volumes/|/|' \
-e t \
-e "s|^|"$(\
find /Volumes/ -maxdepth 1 -type l | \
sed 's|/Volumes/|/|')"|"\
)"

-e 's/Volumes/||' # remove the /Volumes prefix
-e t # if the previous replacement succeeded, stop processing
-e "s|^|… # find the likely boot volume name, remove "/Volumes/", and
add it to the beginning of the path


In one line:

pushd "$(tmutil latestbackup)""$(pwd -P | sed -e 's|/Volumes/|/|' -e t
-e "s|^|"$(find /Volumes/ -maxdepth 1 -type l | sed
's|/Volumes/|/|')"|")"


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Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Michael  wrote:
>
> Hmm. Diskutil info reports that it is backed by a sparse bundle. So the 
> system does track that, and time machine could see that. What I need is a 
> block device loopback device, and a way to feed that sparse bundle to that 
> block loopback, so it would look like it was on a block device instead of an 
> image file.
>
> Any idea how to do that?

lolwut!? But seriously, no idea. You could probably do something like
that by implementing your own FUSE plugin, but I'd be surprised if
anything like that exists. Sparsebundles are already mountable and I
doubt many people are going to take the time to re-implement it. This
is about the time that some pops in with a link to exactly such a
working project.

> The point of putting this file system in a sparse bundle was to make sure 
> that the next time it dies / needs to be recovered from an online backup 
> (backblaze) was to ensure that file meta-data is saved properly. At the same 
> time, I want to have a local history backup so that I don't have to worry 
> about downloading if I don't have to. (2/3rd of the disk is for time machine, 
> and 1/3rd is for this stuff).

So, my reading is that you're backing up to a sparsebundle because
that that will preserve the metadata you care about. I think I'd look
instead at to another backup tool.

In the wake of Crashplan shutting down their unlimited, multi-user
plan, I've been evaluating Duplicacy backing up to B2. Duplicacy does
handle some metadata, but it's not a perfect score in BackupBouncer.
Duplicacy does handle multiple backup destinations (ie. local and
cloud). Have you considered other tools? Arq is probably a good option
for you here.

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Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Michael  wrote:
>
> I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became 
> horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an 
> image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now 
> it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents).

I can see how to exclude volumes, but no way to explicitly include a volume.

Looks like this isn't supported.

https://superuser.com/questions/148849/backup-mounted-drive-of-an-image-in-time-machine

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Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Michael  wrote:
>
> I'm not going to a sparse image (which worked fine to start, but became 
> horribly slow), I'm talking about taking something that is currently an 
> image, and turning it into a normal directory in the time machine (right now 
> it is only backed up as a disk image, not as the contents).

Ah, got it.

Are you able to select the mounted volume as a backup source?
Is the mounted volume silently skipped?
Are there any error messages from backupd?

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Re: Getting time machine to backup a drive image

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Michael  wrote:
> So if a hard drive is backed by a physical disk, time machine will back it up 
> just fine.
> If it's backed up by an hdiutil mounted image, then it seems to refuse to 
> back it up.

I haven't used TimeMachine in a while, but this previously worked just
fine. I had a sparse bundle image on an AFP share. Every hour TM would
invisibly mount the share, then mount the image, perform the backup,
and finally unmount the image and share.

Do you have any error messages in Console.app from backupd? Or are you
unable to even select the mounted image volume as the destination?
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Re: Time Machine and hard links

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Michael  wrote:
>
> So I just found out that time machine does not backup hard links. Nor does it 
> backup meta-data to permit restoring hard links.
>
> ...
>
> Note that the restores are all different files.

There are at least two Radars for this.

http://openradar.appspot.com/7569890
http://openradar.appspot.com/8005841

They're probably marked as duplicates of some other ticket in the real Radar.

I suspect that the root is that hard links can't span volumes so
there's no existing mechanism to easily recreate those links.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:53 AM, David Schwartz  wrote:
>
> With APFS already in public beta on macOS, it might be a little late to be 
> asking about best practices on HFS+…

I expect that relatively soon[TM] (re: Higher Sierra, maybe Higherer
Sierra), TimeMachine will see "version 2" that operates similar to ZFS
replication and a whole slew of bugs will be marked "won't fix".

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Re: Where's my booklet?

[Arno Hautala]

I was able to get a booklet generator fairly easily by installing
pdfjam (available in MacPorts as a binary so you won't even need to
compile anything) Then use the following script in your "~/Library/PDF
Services" directory.

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:$PATH
pdfbook --short-edge "$3" --outfile "$HOME"/Desktop/"$1".pdf

It'll convert whatever you're printing to a booklet and put the output
on your desktop. The file name comes from the title of whatever you're
printing.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Carl Hoefs
<newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> The only thing that was missing on my system was the Java runtime from 2015.
> I reinstalled that, and CocoaBooklet runs, but errors out with a nonsensical
> alert panel:
>
> The document "test_file.rtf.pdf" cound not be opened.
> CocoaBooklet cannot open files in the "Portable Document Format (PDF)"
> format.
>
> FWIW, I ran it on a .rtf file, not a .pdf file. I guess it generates a PDF
> from the source and then tries to manipulate it. Only it thinks it can't...
>
> Oh well!
> -Carl
>
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Arno Hautala <a...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> It's not MakeBooklet, but maybe that'll be included in the DMG.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130401051127/http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/cbeng/cbeng.html
>
> archive.org does seem to have the download for CocoaBooklet. It's
> several years old, who knows if it'll work.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Carl Hoefs
> <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> That's an interesting thought, but it appears to be a bonafide app, with a
> directory structure, etc.
> Here's the Info.plist from it. Not sure if it tells much.
>
>
> $ cat Info.plist
> 
>  "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd;>
> 
> 
> CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
> English
> CFBundleDisplayName
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundleDocumentTypes
> 
> 
> CFBundleTypeExtensions
> 
> pdf
> PDF
> 
> CFBundleTypeOSTypes
> 
> 
> 
> CFBundleTypeRole
> Viewer
> 
> 
> CFBundleExecutable
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundleGetInfoString
> MakeBooklet 1.0 Copyright 2006 Fabien Conus
> CFBundleIconFile
> appIcon.icns
> CFBundleIdentifier
> ch.iConus.MakeBooklet
> CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
> 6.0
> CFBundleName
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundlePackageType
> APPL
> CFBundleShortVersionString
> 1.0
> CFBundleSignature
> 
> CFBundleVersion
> 1.0
> LSEnvironment
> 
> APP_BUNDLER
> Platypus-3.2
> 
> LSHasLocalizedDisplayName
> 
> LSUIElement
> 
> NSAppleScriptEnabled
> 
> NSHumanReadableCopyright
> MakeBooklet 1.0 Copyright 2006 Fabien Conus
> NSMainNibFile
> MainMenu
> NSPrincipalClass
> NSApplication
> 
> 
>
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 5:24 AM, Arno Hautala <a...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> It's very likely an AppleScript that you can open with the Script
> Editor to see what it's trying to do. It may have been saved in the
> compiled form without the source attached, but there's a chance it's
> there and you can possibly fix it. My guess is it's calling out to a
> PDF tool that isn't in the same place as it used to be, isn't included
> anymore, or is something that you had installed but isn't anymore.
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Carl Hoefs
> <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> Voila!  Yes, that's it. I have something from 2013 called MakeBooklet.app
> installed in ~/Library/PDF Services. But when I try to run it, it does
> nothing, double-clicking on it from Finder, or even opening it from
> Terminal:
>
> open /Users/carl/Library/PDF\ Services/MakeBooklet.app
>
> Googling turns up no references to it. I guess the only thing to do at this
> point is to delete it.
>
> -Carl
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:15 PM, David Schwartz <da...@yesdavid.com> wrote:
>
> Anything you put in:
>
> ~/Library/PDF Services
> or
> /Library/PDF Services
>
> will show as an item in your print dialog’s PDF menu. You can put folders,
> Automator Actions, compiled binary applications, etc there.
>
> -david
>
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, 1:37 PM -0700, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>,
> wrote:
>
> macOS 10.12.5
>
> I have a multi-page PDF document. There's a curious item in Preview.app,
> accessible via the top menu:
> File -> Print -> PDF (pulldown) -> Make a Booklet
>
> When I select "Make a Booklet", it pops up a little panel that says
> "Processing page n...", from 1 to the end of the document. Then

Re: Where's my booklet?

[Arno Hautala]

It's not MakeBooklet, but maybe that'll be included in the DMG.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130401051127/http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/cbeng/cbeng.html

archive.org does seem to have the download for CocoaBooklet. It's
several years old, who knows if it'll work.


On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Carl Hoefs
<newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> That's an interesting thought, but it appears to be a bonafide app, with a
> directory structure, etc.
> Here's the Info.plist from it. Not sure if it tells much.
>
>
> $ cat Info.plist
> 
>  "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd;>
> 
> 
> CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
> English
> CFBundleDisplayName
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundleDocumentTypes
> 
> 
> CFBundleTypeExtensions
> 
> pdf
> PDF
> 
> CFBundleTypeOSTypes
> 
> 
> 
> CFBundleTypeRole
> Viewer
> 
> 
> CFBundleExecutable
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundleGetInfoString
> MakeBooklet 1.0 Copyright 2006 Fabien Conus
> CFBundleIconFile
> appIcon.icns
> CFBundleIdentifier
> ch.iConus.MakeBooklet
> CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
> 6.0
> CFBundleName
> MakeBooklet
> CFBundlePackageType
> APPL
> CFBundleShortVersionString
> 1.0
> CFBundleSignature
> 
> CFBundleVersion
> 1.0
> LSEnvironment
> 
> APP_BUNDLER
> Platypus-3.2
> 
> LSHasLocalizedDisplayName
> 
> LSUIElement
> 
> NSAppleScriptEnabled
> 
> NSHumanReadableCopyright
> MakeBooklet 1.0 Copyright 2006 Fabien Conus
> NSMainNibFile
> MainMenu
> NSPrincipalClass
> NSApplication
> 
> 
>
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 5:24 AM, Arno Hautala <a...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> It's very likely an AppleScript that you can open with the Script
> Editor to see what it's trying to do. It may have been saved in the
> compiled form without the source attached, but there's a chance it's
> there and you can possibly fix it. My guess is it's calling out to a
> PDF tool that isn't in the same place as it used to be, isn't included
> anymore, or is something that you had installed but isn't anymore.
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Carl Hoefs
> <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> Voila!  Yes, that's it. I have something from 2013 called MakeBooklet.app
> installed in ~/Library/PDF Services. But when I try to run it, it does
> nothing, double-clicking on it from Finder, or even opening it from
> Terminal:
>
> open /Users/carl/Library/PDF\ Services/MakeBooklet.app
>
> Googling turns up no references to it. I guess the only thing to do at this
> point is to delete it.
>
> -Carl
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:15 PM, David Schwartz <da...@yesdavid.com> wrote:
>
> Anything you put in:
>
> ~/Library/PDF Services
> or
> /Library/PDF Services
>
> will show as an item in your print dialog’s PDF menu. You can put folders,
> Automator Actions, compiled binary applications, etc there.
>
> -david
>
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, 1:37 PM -0700, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>,
> wrote:
>
> macOS 10.12.5
>
> I have a multi-page PDF document. There's a curious item in Preview.app,
> accessible via the top menu:
> File -> Print -> PDF (pulldown) -> Make a Booklet
>
> When I select "Make a Booklet", it pops up a little panel that says
> "Processing page n...", from 1 to the end of the document. Then the panel
> goes away, and nothing. What did it do? Where did it place the booklet? I've
> searched my directories (home, Desktop, Documents, Dropbox, iCloud, /tmp,
> etc), but there's no sign of it, nothing going to the printer, either. Most
> odd.
>
> -Carl
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Re: Where's my booklet?

[Arno Hautala]

It's very likely an AppleScript that you can open with the Script
Editor to see what it's trying to do. It may have been saved in the
compiled form without the source attached, but there's a chance it's
there and you can possibly fix it. My guess is it's calling out to a
PDF tool that isn't in the same place as it used to be, isn't included
anymore, or is something that you had installed but isn't anymore.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Carl Hoefs
 wrote:
> Voila!  Yes, that's it. I have something from 2013 called MakeBooklet.app
> installed in ~/Library/PDF Services. But when I try to run it, it does
> nothing, double-clicking on it from Finder, or even opening it from
> Terminal:
>
> open /Users/carl/Library/PDF\ Services/MakeBooklet.app
>
> Googling turns up no references to it. I guess the only thing to do at this
> point is to delete it.
>
> -Carl
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:15 PM, David Schwartz  wrote:
>
> Anything you put in:
>
> ~/Library/PDF Services
> or
> /Library/PDF Services
>
> will show as an item in your print dialog’s PDF menu. You can put folders,
> Automator Actions, compiled binary applications, etc there.
>
> -david
>
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, 1:37 PM -0700, Carl Hoefs ,
> wrote:
>
> macOS 10.12.5
>
> I have a multi-page PDF document. There's a curious item in Preview.app,
> accessible via the top menu:
> File -> Print -> PDF (pulldown) -> Make a Booklet
>
> When I select "Make a Booklet", it pops up a little panel that says
> "Processing page n...", from 1 to the end of the document. Then the panel
> goes away, and nothing. What did it do? Where did it place the booklet? I've
> searched my directories (home, Desktop, Documents, Dropbox, iCloud, /tmp,
> etc), but there's no sign of it, nothing going to the printer, either. Most
> odd.
>
> -Carl
>
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Re: why are Time Machine backups so large lately?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
 wrote:
> Any other suggestions? Is there an easy way to get a list of files, ordered 
> by file size, so that I can see which files are largest?

You should take a look at the command line: tmutil
Specifically, "tmutil compare"

You can pass in a snapshot to compare to the current state, or two
snapshots to see what's different between them. I don't think that'll
give you the sizes, but it should help in seeing what is being backed
up.


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Re: Finder Alt+Cmd+F ?

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
 wrote:
> Try it.
>
> Cmd+F opens a new tab with a smart search.
> Alt+Cmd+F just put the cursor in the search field.


If I have the toolbar visible I do indeed see that behavior.
If I have the toolbar hidden (my default) both commands open or
convert a window to search.

It's not clear to me where that cursor movement shortcut is set or if
it's controllable. Maybe a 3rd party tool like Keyboard Maestro or
similar would be able to override that shortcut.

If I set a different action for Opt,Cmd,F in System Preferences >
Keyboard Shortcuts I do not get a conflict warning. This leads me to
think that setting a different shortcut for that cursor move may not
be possible or obvious.

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Re: Spotlight Preferences

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a) I'd try disabling some of the items under the Search Results tab
b) check the Security & Privacy preference pane
c) the best I can get is either showing the file in the Finder with
"Command Enter" or the Get Info window with "Command I"

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Carl Hoefs
 wrote:
> Wow, the Spotlight Preferences panel in Sierra is ... underwhelming.
>
> Is there any way to configure Spotlight to:
> a) search on the local machine only, and not go out to the internet?
> b) not send "helpful information" to Apple?
> c) display the local path (or other info) of the listed files?
>
> -Carl
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Re: bash shell command issue

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In order to use a pipe with touch, you'd need to move the pipe
contents over to the argument list. This is where xargs comes in.

ls | sort | xargs touch

Tip: you can omit the '-1' as that's the default when you're redirecting output.

Other options as suggested are:

touch `ls`
or
touch $(ls)


But none of this guarantees any order. touch is free to process
arguments however it sees fit.

You can however tell xargs to process one item at a time.

ls | sort | xargs -n1 touch

That will at least get you the items touched in order by name.
However, touch is fast so you might still end up with items touched
with the same date. And now you're getting in to bigger shell
scripting territory.

find . -name '*.mp[34]' -print | sort | while read F ; do touch "$F" ;
sleep 1 ; done

That'll touch one file every second. Certainly, if you have a lot of
files this could take a lot of time.

The ideal situation at this point is to provide a time that you want
the file touched with. You could even start with the current date and
iterate over the files in reverse, decrementing one second each file.

The following should do the trick.

#!/bin/bash
# save the current date in seconds
CURRENT_DATE=$(date +%s)
# find any mp3/mp4 files, sort alphanumerically, reverse the sort,
process each line
# if you don't care about case, use: sort -fr
find . -name '*.mp[34]' | sort -r | while read CURRENT_FILE ;
do
# decrement one second
((CURRENT_DATE-=1))
# convert the date to the format required by touch
   TOUCH_DATE=$(date -r $CURRENT_DATE +%Y%m%d%H%m.%S)
# touch the file
touch -t $TOUCH_DATE "$CURRENT_FILE"
done


On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM, David Patrick Henderson
 wrote:
> Try  touch `ls -1`
>
> On 15 Oct 2016, at 19:33, Carl Hoefs  wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that's what I thought at first, too. But touch begs to differ:
>>
>> $ ls -1 | sort | touch
>> usage:
>> touch [-A [-][[hh]mm]SS] [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file 
>> ...
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Macs R We  wrote:
>>>
>>> Right off the bat, I think you made a mistake in putting the * at the end 
>>> of the command. The whole idea of piping the output from LS is to input it 
>>> to touch, and you just provided touch with another argument first. I think 
>>> if you just let LS do its job and don't provide touch any arguments, you 
>>> will get what you want, including all of the necessary requoting.
>>>
 On Oct 15, 2016, at 7:24 PM, Carl Hoefs  
 wrote:

 I'm trying to arrange the files in a directory to have modification dates 
 according to alphabetical sort order. (Sounds weird, but Alpine car units 
 use modification date as the ordering of music tracks on a USB stick.)

 In bash I'm using:

 ls -1 | sort | touch *

 ...but it doesn't work, there is no change in the modification date of the 
 files. I'm guessing the problem is that the filenames have spaces, so the 
 'touch *' is only touching the first word of the filename.

 Is there a way to do this?

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Re: is Apple Mail unsafe?

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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
 wrote:
> But does it also load images?  I thought that malware, or at least 
> undesirable things of some sort, could be embedded in images.  Is that not 
> true?
>
> I guess I am really showing my ignorance here.

Not so much... Malware can indeed be contained in an image.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/22/stagefright-mac-iphone-ipad/

To be truly secure you must communicate directly with the bits. I try
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Re: How do I see what Time Machine just backed up?

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You can also use the command line "tmutil compare". Provide either two
snapshot paths to compare or it'll compare the drive to the latest
snapshot.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:12 AM, David Schwartz  wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
>  asked:
>>
>>
>> Is there a (simple) way to see what was recently backed up in Time Machine?  
>> I'm curious.
>
>
>
> http://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gregg
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Re: Forcing Finder to refresh

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You could try AppleScript: tell application "Finder" to update items
of front window

I couldn't remember offhand, but found a reference on this MOSXH page.
Sure wish there was a site still being updated with these tips.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050518175502341

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Daniel Israel  wrote:
> I notice this time to time as well, especially when you empty trash, the
> free space is not updated for a while.  This seems to be the case since I
> got my new laptop (January) with the newer version of OSX.
>
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Carl Hoefs 
> wrote:
>
> Is there a command to cause Finder to refresh its views? I was looking at
> the contents of a directory in Finder, wondering why the files that a
> program was writing weren't showing up. I could see the files in Terminal
> with ls. Even launching a new Finder window displayed the old contents (old
> by 2 days). I had to duplicate (cmd-D) a file in the directory to cause
> Finder to refresh its display. I don't see any kind of refresh command in
> the Finder menus...
>
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Re: periodic internet speed test?

[Arno Hautala]

I'll need to take a look at speedof.me, but in the past I've picked a file
from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html and used wget / curl.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 If I were going to do this, I’d plug a MikroTik router into my LAN and
 script it to do periodic bandwidth testing against another MikroTIk router
 somewhere off in the greater internet.

 But short of that, my only suggestion is that there is a non-Flash,
 non-Java speed tester at http://speedof.me that you may be able to script
 to do something if you are clever with such things.  It also keeps a
 history of your test results, so as long as you can cause it to trigger at
 whatever period you choose, you can come back at any future time and see
 past results without having to save your own.

 On May 15, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com
 wrote:

 Hi:

 I know this isn't exactly a Mac question, but I'm hoping you'll forgive me
 and that someone will have some idea

 I think I am getting highly variable speed from my ISP and rarely getting
 the speed for which I pay. Using sites like speedtest.net
 http://s.bl-1.com/h/oy7pKLo?url=http://speedtest.net/ generally show
 that I am getting good speed at close to spec (occasionally not), but I can
 only run that test manually when I remember.

 What I want is something like a shell or automator script that I can set
 up to run periodically (every 10 minutes, hour, one minutes, whatever) that
 will do something like speedtest.net
 http://s.bl-1.com/h/oy7pQlq?url=http://speedtest.net/ and then leaves
 me with some output that I can log/keep to see if my speed issues are
 actually a connection issue or if there is something else (I know, lots of
 possibilities, but I've ruled most out).

 Does anyone know of anything that will do this? Or how to do this? I can
 do some shell scripting, I can handle automatic scheduling and I have a web
 hosting provider where I can place some server-side scripts (e.g. PHP.
 PERL, Python), but not flash (like Ookla/speedtest.net's installable),
 sadly.

 Other ways of doing this or determining speed over time would be helpful
 as well.

 Any suggestions and help are very much appreciated.

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Re: periodic internet speed test?

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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:

 I haven't looked at the options or parsing I've used lately, but both
 provide status. I know curl will output a final summary. A timeout is a
 decent way to avoid having to parse anything.

And by timeout, I mean timestamps.

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Re: periodic internet speed test?

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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com
wrote:

 thinkbroadband.com
 http://s.bl-1.com/h/o0w4rd9?url=http://thinkbroadband.com/ will likely
 work better - I'm guessing you just use wget/curl and take a timestamp
 right before and right after then do the speed calculation from that.
 That's a pretty simple script.


I haven't looked at the options or parsing I've used lately, but both
provide status. I know curl will output a final summary. A timeout is a
decent way to avoid having to parse anything.

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Re: iMessage mixing up threads when replying

[Arno Hautala]

I've had issues with iMessage creating multiple chats with the same
members, but I've never had messages jump from one set of members to
another.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote:
 How does iMessage determine which thread you are replying to?

 For example:  I have an iMessage thread with persons A, B, C.  I have
 another iMessage thread with A, B, C and D.  I have another iMessage thread
 with A, B, C, D, E, F.   When I reply to thread A, B, C, the reply may end
 up in any other message thread with members A, B, and C EVEN if that thread
 contains other people!  This is a problem that has existed for a long time.
 As a consequence, replies are often out of context as they appear in the
 wrong thread.  iMessage seems to define a thread by the members in a thread
 rather than some sort of unique thread ID. It's a serious problem.


 I’ve posted a bug to radar.  I hope it is a duplicate.  If others are seeing
 this problem, please post. This needs to get fixed ASAP.
 Thanks,
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Re: iMessage mixing up threads when replying

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 6:37 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 Sometimes I think this depends on the recipient. For example, it I have a 
 chat with A B and the messages to B are going to that person’s iPhone and 
 they reply from their iPad (and they have different delivery settings on iPad 
 and iphone?), then I think I get a “new” thread.

Irritatingly, it sometimes seems to trigger when I reply from my Mac,
which even more irritatingly never splits chats itself.

I've been able to get things back on track by convincing everyone to
agree on the canonical one and delete the extras. It never seems to
last too long.

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Re: iTunes output

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Sounds like a good candidate for AudioHijack 3.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Carl Hoefs
newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote:
 I have some sound files that are old and sound flat. But if I play them in 
 iTunes with the Sound Enhancer” cranked up they sound pretty good. Is it 
 possible to capture the output of this into an mp3 file?
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Re: import to iTunes from remote CD?

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There have been CDs released with DRM (remember the Sony BMG rootkit
for example?). They've all been abandoned as not being worth the
effort and expense. Plus, these discs don't comply with the RedBook
standard and can't carry the CDDA logo.

I'm only slightly surprised that DVD and Bluray DRM hasn't been
declared pointless as well. I suppose the thinking is that they're
stopping the average user from ripping discs and they weren't going to
sell anything to the pirates anyway.

CDs were entrenched as DRM free. Movie discs started out with it.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 On Dec 15, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
 di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:

 Why does DRM allow me to import songs to a mac that has an optical drive 
 built-in, but not to a mac that has been set up to share the other one's 
 drive?

 Why do DRM laws allows you to rip an audio CD you own, but not a video DVD 
 you own?  The problem is when you expect laws to be logical and consistent, 
 instead of arbitrary contracts for proxy initiation of government force 
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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Arno Hautala]

So, if I understand everything that's been said:

The goal is to get a black screen when not in use.
Energy saver can't be used because, instead of going black, the screen
goes blue like a TV from the 80s.
The screen can't be turned off because that kills color accuracy for
20 minutes. The color accuracy issue is probably why it isn't set to
turn power down the screen like other monitors.
A black image can't be selected for the screen saver because that
image is still zoomed and panned by the screen saver leading to
undesired cycles being wasted.

You could put a black image full screen manually, but then you
wouldn't be able to lock the screen.

The Apple logo is probably your best bet, short of putting together
your own with Quartz Composer. Tutorials and examples are pretty
plentiful.


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 On Dec 7, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten 
 keybou...@gmail.com wrote:

 Alright, does anyone know how to get the screen saver to just put up the 
 image, and not do anything? I see fairly high energy usage in Activity 
 Monitor when the screen saver goes active, and I finally realized that 
 between zooming in, or scrolling the pictures, or other things, screen saver 
 is not just idle.

 Well, right, obviously it’s not idle. The whole point of the screensaver is 
 to draw pretty pictures on the screen to prevent burn-in. Burn-in isn’t a 
 problem anymore, but people got used to screensaver and want more and more 
 flying toasters, metaphorically.

 If you want the screen to be idle, but the screen to sleep. The EASIEST way 
 is to simply hit control-shift-eject.

 You can also set a hot corner if you like.


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Re: Verifying a time machine backup

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On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:

 ZFS's checksums can tell me Hey, the data you tried to read is no good. I 
 want to know that before I need to restore from backup.

That's what a scrub is for. And verifying the backup against the
current state. Things get easier if the main data is on ZFS as well.

 I can't use ZFS for time machine.

You can. My TimeMachine store is hosted on a FreeNAS box. It's not as
ideal as a directly attached; I definitely see more TM errors over
wireless, but I don't think a TimeCapsule would be any better.

 I can't control whether the drive's internal buffer is error correcting 
 memory or not. I can't control if the disk sector was written correctly but 
 has become unreadable.

Don't forget cosmic rays, theft, fire, or flood. Though ZFS is
designed to work around the other issues you mentioned.

 All I can do is compare what's on the disk with what's on the backup, file by 
 file. tmutil compare can do that, but it will report too many false 
 positives -- everything modified since the last backup will show as 
 different, and everything that should not be backed up will show as missing.

'compare' doesn't list excluded files.

You're left with files that have changed and I'd think you'd want to
know about those. I can't think of a way to determine that a file has
changed on disk vs. becoming corrupt on disk vs. becoming corrupt in
the backup. fsevents can help narrow it down to the change being in
the backup or on disk, but maybe fsevents missed a file, or a bug in
fsevents has triggered a false positive / negative.

 To have an automated verification, I need to be able to filter to only those 
 files that should be on the backup and have not changed / do not need to be 
 backed up again.

I don't think you can really have an automated verification. You can
get a list of differing files, but you need to inspect the files to
determine if there is corruption or not. And if your verification
occurs after corruption on disk has been backed up, what are you
verifying exactly?

You could do things like writing checksum files and comparing against
those as well as against the backup, but now you're getting into the
territory of implementing your own custom version of a subset of ZFS
or some other modern filesystem.

It occurs to me that with OpenZFS [1] it'd be possible to format some
hunk of your internal hard drive as ZFS and put all your personal
files there. Then you can replicate instead of using TimeMachine.

[1]: https://openzfsonosx.org

 Open Radar: I'm not sure. About half of what I submit is closed as a 
 duplicate, and I can never see the originals. I have no clue how to see 
 someone else's bug report, nor how to share mine.

You share yours by posting the same content to openradar.appspot.com


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Re: Verifying a time machine backup

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 2014-12-04, at 11:47 AM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:

 The tl;dr for this that tmutil might provide some of what you're
 looking for, but if you don't trust TimeMachine, you should use a
 different backup tool.

 It isn't about whether or not I trust Time Machine, or a different tool.

Ultimately, it is. Either the backup app is trustworthy (including
acceptable rates of errors from bugs, faulty hardware, cosmic rays) or
you find a tool or multiple backup strategies that do provide that
level of trust.

 1. No backup tool will protect against a drive error that stores the wrong 
 thing onto the disk. At best, you can flush the system cache, and re-read the 
 file. That only guarantees that it matches today.

You want to start using ZFS and ECC RAM.

 2. No tool can be considered perfect against bugs. They can and will happen. 
 I found, and reported, an issue with Time Machine. Does not mean that other 
 tools don't have other problems.

Visible on OpenRadar?

 FSEvents tells backupd which directories have modified files; backupd checks 
 each of those directories to see which files have been changed. It then 
 consults an internal list of do not back up, the system list of 
 user-specified do not back up files, and the per-file do not back up meta 
 data flag. If all of those pass, then it decides to back it up.

 I want a list of all the files on the machine that would be backed up if it 
 were doing a from-scratch backup, EXCEPT for those where FSEvents says 
 This needs to be backed up.

 That is the list of everything on the backup that should match the file 
 system.

So, you want a list of files that have already been backed up, that
haven't changed on the filesystem, so you can verify that the data has
been correctly backed up. In the ideal case, if performed immediately
after the backup completes, this would be every file in the backup.

I think the easiest way to do this would be to just compare the backup
to the current state (tmutil compare). If the list of differing files
is the same as the list of files that need to be backed up (collected
by fsevents), your backup can be considered verified.

The easier way would be to use ZFS, snapshots, and compare a snapshot
to your current state (zfs diff).

 Yea, I want to force TM to re-backup, without having to change the file. Not 
 even change the date. Basically, a way to tell time machine the existing 
 file on the backup properly belongs to an older backup set, but should be 
 replaced anew on the next backup set.

The only system that provides this that I can think of is rsync. I
suppose with rsnapshot you could manually rsync a specific file into
an existing snapshot.

Overall though, the point of a good backup system is that it's
supposed to be automatic. You should periodically verify your backup,
but I'd think this should just be a matter of diffing the backup to
the current state. If anything differs, you can manually determine if:
- it was properly not backed up
- it differs because it's changed since the last backup, but the last
backup is valid
- if the backup file is corrupt
- if the computer copy is corrupt

 You can use the tmutil command to see what differs in any two
 snapshots or from a snapshot to the current computer state.

 True. Now, do you have a way to say Only tell me if backupd would not want 
 to back this up? If it's different, but backupd would back it up, then I 
 don't care. Or if backupd would say This is on the do not backup list, then 
 I don't care.

So again, you want the list of files that are included in the backup,
but haven't changed. I can't think of any easy way to get that list
without scanning the entire disk. And at that point, you might as well
just be comparing the whole backup.

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Re: Verifying a time machine backup

[Arno Hautala]

The tl;dr for this that tmutil might provide some of what you're
looking for, but if you don't trust TimeMachine, you should use a
different backup tool.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:

 What I envision:
 1. A tool to list which files on the backup do not need to be backed up -- 
 in other words, the list of files that time machine think are worth backing 
 up but can be skipped. These can then be sent to a diff-tool to verify that 
 what is on the backup matches.

TimeMachine determines what needs to be backed up by watching FSEvents
for directories with changed files. During the backup TM then inspects
every file inside the flagged directories.
To build your list of files to check, you'd need to do the same thing.

 2. A way to let time machine know that Hey, this file does not actually 
 match, and needs to be backed up. Delete all backups of file X is one 
 such, but it is overkill. On the other hand, if the file on the backup is in 
 error, maybe it should be removed. It is also not quite sufficient, if files 
 should be backed up but are missing.

I don't think there's any method to do this other than modifying the
target files so TimeMachine explicitly notices the file.

 #1 -- list all files that should be backed up and not need to be re-backed up 
 -- is needed to avoid worrying about files that do not get backed up. The 
 idea of only scan files that are on the backup will miss files that should 
 have been but have not because of a bug in time machine itself. In theory, 
 such a tool can be written today, but I have no idea how. As far as I can 
 tell, backupd is the only program that has the knowledge to make such a list, 
 but does not.

You could do this with FSEvents.

 #2 -- force a backup of specific files -- seems to be impossible at the 
 moment.

Yeah, there's no way to tell TimeMachine to backup a file, aside from
modifying the file and starting a backup.

 In the past (10.9.5), I had directories where the list of what was backed 
 up did not match the list of what should have been backed up. So the 
 concern of files missing is not crazy. And the concern of undetected IO 
 error in the write is very real.

 Has anyone looked into this issue? Are there any tools, or any sort of work 
 in progress, or anything, to deal with any of this so far?

You can use the tmutil command to see what differs in any two
snapshots or from a snapshot to the current computer state.

There's also fseventer for watching changed files, though I'm not sure
if it's still compatible with recent OS versions.

All in all though, if you don't feel like you can trust TimeMachine (I
wouldn't trust it either if you find it skipping files), you're
probably just better off using another tool (rsync, rsnapshot,
CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, Crashplan, BackBlaze, etc.). Pick a tool
that allows you to more easily verify the backup and manually backup
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Re: Merging iPhoto libraries

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote:

 Thanks - I’d like to keep or manage existing albums (have both albums and 
 smart albums) and of course, dozens of shared photo streams.
 Nightmare?

I'm not sure about the shared photo streams, you can only be signed in
to one iCloud account for PhotoStream at a time, so I'd think you
would just bring over the albums and then make sure you're still
signed in to the relevant iCloud account.

As for merging the libraries and retaining the albums, I think you
want to use iPhoto Library Manager [1]. Aside from Aperture, which
seems to merge libraries as well, it's the 3rd party software that I
see recommended everywhere.

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Re: Java error message in OS X Yosemite

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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Doug Barton dougb@dougbarton.email wrote:
 On 10/19/14 6:07 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

 To open DavMail you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.

 I understand what the message is telling me, but I'm curious if anyone
 knows why, and if there is a way around it. I'd rather not install Java
 6 anything if I can help it.

Was it a message from DavMail? Or from the OS? It may be indicating
some legacy behavior (re. bug) that the app relies on that has been
fixed in recent versions. It's also possible that DavMail was relying
on some advice I've seen online that indicates the only way to get
Java installed on Yosemite is to use the last version Apple provided.

http://www.appstorechronicle.com/install-java-osx-10-10-yosemite

The recent update they refer to is from May of this year and does
indeed provide Java 6.

 Turns out that Oracle Java 7 is no longer supported in Yosemite, you have to
 upgrade to Java 8. After doing so most of my stuff works now, but one
 important app does not.

7u71 should be fine, but there is also 8u25.
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_10_10.xml

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Re: Java error message in OS X Yosemite

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Doug Barton dougb@dougbarton.email wrote:

 I know Oracle recommends quite emphatically to move away from Java 6 because
 of bugs and security holes, but is the OS X version better maintained?

It's my understanding that Apple isn't maintaining a version of Java
at all anymore. Note that the version linked in the technote is Java 6
and hasn't been updated since May.

I'd contact DavMail and Zipeg to find out why their apps require an
outdated version of Java.

I like what CrashPlan does now, where they include all the Java
resources they need within their app bundle.

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Re: should I expect hard drive trouble?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:

 I recently bought a pair of internal 4-TB hard drives from an online vendor.  
 It looks like they probably bounced around a lot during shipping.  Should I 
 expect problems?

What evedice is there that they bounced around? Damaged external or
internal packaging? How were they package? Bubble wrap? Cardboard
padding? If the drives appear physically damaged I'd be tempted to
just return them outright.

 That is, if they don't work right from the start, then obviously I should get 
 them replaced.  But what if they seem to work at first?  My guess is that 
 it's not a perfect binary situation, where they either are obviously bad or 
 obviously fine.  Can they be damaged and have the effects of that damage show 
 up slowly over time?  Is there any simple test (or set of tests) that I can 
 do right at the beginning, before I deploy them?

If they spin up you're probably fine. Regardless, you probably have a
year or two to return them under RMA if anything goes wrong; no
different than if they arrived in seemingly perfect condition.

Overall, I'd probably just try them.

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Re: Rss and podcasts and mp3s

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:40 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 This may be a bit out there, but I want to setup a folder I have on a web 
 server full of MP3 files so that I can subscribe to them via a podcast app.

I'm not aware of any podcast servers meant for running on a Mac. Plus,
Overcast does the podcast checking on the server, so you're going to
need to make the feed visible to the public Internet. If you want
authentication that would indeed be additional work and I'm not even
sure if Overcast supports authenticated feeds right now.

This seems like a lot of work to just get a list of files onto your
device. Why not just drag the files into a playlist that is set to
sync through iTunes? Or even just drag them directly to your device?

You could even put them in a folder in DropBox and use an app like
BoxyTunes to play them.

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Re: A 14 GB log file

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:10 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote:
 Right then… does anyone have an app/utility/script that will send a
 warning/note if a file exceeds a set size, if its located in the System
 Library (or maybe any where other than my user folder)?

You can use the following to find anything bigger than 1 GB:

 find /System/ -type f -size +1G

Or this to find anything not in the Users folder:

 find / -not -path '/Users/*' -type f -size +1G

You could combine that with the mail command to send any results. I
think mail requires that you have an account configured in Mail.app;
I'm not sure of the requirements, but I've seen this tip before.

 find / -not -path '/Users/*' -type f -size +1G | mail -s Files over 1 GB 
 i.am.list@gmail.com

And then run that at least once a day from launchd.

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Re: Using iTunes to populate a USB flash drive

[Arno Hautala]

I'd assume it's just FAT format with folders for artists and albums.
Sometimes there are path / file / folder name length limits, but
that's probably dependent on the specific system. Care to share what
that is? I would think the manual would specify this as well.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Carl Hoefs
newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote:
 Is there a way to use iTunes to format/write a USB flash drive or micro sd 
 card so that it will play when plugged into a car stereo USB port? I would 
 guess there needs to be a certain format or arrangement of mp3 files and 
 folders, probably atop some FAT-derived low level formatting. Does anyone 
 know the format standard or spec for this?
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Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

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I can't check my system right now, but this doesn't seem like wrong behavior.

Presumably when you start searching for something, you know what word
you're looking for. I'm having a hard time thinking of a case where
I'd want a search to match within a word instead of just the
beginning.

If you search for he, do you really want every instance of the to
be highlighted?

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote:
 This seems slightly familiar, like I might have seen it before, but part of 
 me is struggling to believe it's actually possible.

 In Safari 7.0.1 I do Command-F and enter inter.  It matches interesting 
 but *not* winter.  Really??  This has got to be just me, right?  Maybe one 
 of my installed extensions?  Anybody else seeing this?

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Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote:

 I may not be looking for a word based on its prefix.  I might be looking for 
 burger on a restaurant page and expect hamburger to be found.

Ah, I suppose there are cases where the shorthand is common.

 In any case, I found the problem.  Prefix search is an option in Safari that 
 I had somehow selected.  By clicking on the magnifying glass in the Find 
 field I was able to select Contains rather than Starts With.

Good to know; thanks.

 Mail does the same thing and tells the same lie.

Does Mail still do the thing where it only matches from the start of
the subject? Or is that on iOS?

I think Spotlight has this behavior as well.

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Re: Swap file tracking

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote:

 […] but I don’t think the actual size of the swap files in there goes down
 unless you reboot in which case they get deleted.

I've definitely seen the number of swap files decrease. Rarely, but
I've seen it a handful of times.

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Re: Determining excluded files from Time Machine?

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there an easy way to determine which files are excluded from a time 
 machine backup?

 The backup itself does have a plist containing the standard excludes, and the 
 fixed-path excludes. But I'm concerned about finding files tagged from 
 tmutil addexclusion. Those are not listed in the backup, and I can't figure 
 out an easy way to find them (they get an extended attribute, and I'm not 
 sure how to search for those.)

The comments on this Hint include a command for searching in
Spotlight: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130401060050864


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Re: alternatives to Pages?

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Charles Dyer charles.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hmm… I’ll see if I can make that work for .doc files. Thanks.

If you read down the page a bit, there are improvements that write out
to the Desktop, then to the same folder as the original files, and
then someone posts the string that identifies Word export.

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Re: alternatives to Pages?

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Charles Dyer charles.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is there a currently available app which could batch convert from Pages 
 format (Pages 09 or Pages 5 or both) to a more commonly used format (.doc, 
 .docx, .rtf, .odt, etc) so that they’re usable in something other than Pages 
 5?

Couldn't Pages '09 do this? It should still be on your Mac after you
upgraded. Something like: /Applications/iWork '09

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Re: alternatives to Pages?

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Charles Dyer charles.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 It won’t batch convert, so far as I know. I’d have to open each file and 
 export ‘em one at a time. This would be… annoying.

 Ah, I forgot about the batch requirement. Is Export available to
 AppleScript / Automator?

Maybe adapt this? http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=22175


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Re: alternatives to Pages?

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Charles Dyer charles.d...@gmail.com wrote:

 It won’t batch convert, so far as I know. I’d have to open each file and 
 export ‘em one at a time. This would be… annoying.

Ah, I forgot about the batch requirement. Is Export available to
AppleScript / Automator?

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Re: Reducing battery charge to try to prolong battery life ...

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 2013/11/19, at 8:25 AM, Arno Hautala wrote:

 Siracusa would be your best friend.

 The only Siracusa I can find related to macintoshes is a reviewer for Ars 
 Technica.

One who's latest charge is regarding battery life.

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Re: Surprised ...

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Ashley Aitken ash...@hatken.com wrote:

 Facebook :-(

I think that translates to Flash. Or, if that would be entirely
covered by the plugin process, they likely keep a lot of connections
open and then re-render a lot in order to update your timeline / chats
/ etc.

When my wife and I shared a computer I noticed this behavior as well.
The first thing I'd do when she'd been using the computer was to kill
the top Chrome process (inevitably Facebook) and the Flash plugin.
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Re: Time Machine thinning

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Stefano Mori stefano.m...@zen.co.uk wrote:

 On 30 Mar 2013, at 18:23, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:

 I wondered about the hard linked directories, but couldn't imagine how that 
 got past the need to unlink thousands of files. Is there some interesting 
 algorithm in there?

By hard linking a directory, there isn't a need to link any of the
files contained in that directory. Think about your Applications
folder, which probably isn't changing every day or even week, let
alone every hour. TM can hard link /Applications and that one link
essentially covers all of the files and folders within it. When
pruning that backup it also just needs to delete one link instead of
visiting every file and folder.

Hand linking directories can be dangerous though (what if you make
A/B/C - A), so it's a feature that isn't exposed to user tools.

 Now I just rsync directly to the backup
 location (running on FreeNAS) and rely on ZFS snapshots to quickly
 make and prune old backups.

 Oh, cool.

 Should I look at MacZFS?

If you're not working with a lot of data? Probably. ZFS is notorious
for being RAM hungry. I think the recommendation is no fewer than 4 GB
(not entirely unreasonable these days I guess), but you very quickly
will want more. At a stretch you can probably get away with 1GB per
TB, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a great experience.

If you have a spare drive to play with, why not? I think Zevo is the
most current ZFS version, though the free version does have some
potentially annoying restrictions (it's probably fine for new users
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Re: Time Machine thinning

[Arno Hautala]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Stefano Mori stefano.m...@zen.co.uk wrote:

 On 30 Mar 2013, at 00:25, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 Thin != delete. Thinning is removing the entries from the database, as I 
 recall.

In this case, thin does equal delete.

For example:

 Mar 30 13:20:50 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Starting post-backup 
 thinning
 Mar 30 13:23:01 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Deleted /Volumes/Backup of 
 shindig/Backups.backupdb/shindig/2013-02-28-002627 (156.7 MB)
 Mar 30 13:23:39 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Deleted /Volumes/Backup of 
 shindig/Backups.backupdb/shindig/2013-03-28-233100 (68.5 MB)
 Mar 30 13:24:11 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Deleted /Volumes/Backup of 
 shindig/Backups.backupdb/shindig/2013-03-28-223255 (64.1 MB)
 Mar 30 13:24:56 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Deleted /Volumes/Backup of 
 shindig/Backups.backupdb/shindig/2013-03-28-221436 (69.4 MB)
 Mar 30 13:25:36 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Deleted /Volumes/Backup of 
 shindig/Backups.backupdb/shindig/2013-03-28-204147 (29 MB)
 Mar 30 13:25:36 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Post-back up thinning 
 complete: 5 expired backups removed
 Mar 30 13:25:44 shindig com.apple.backupd[54602]: Backup completed 
 successfully.

Further, TimeMachine does need to delete the actual files to free up
more space. My guess is that it's quick because many of the items to
delete will be hard linked directories, which should dramatically
bring down the number of files to delete. rsync can only hard link
files, so there's going to be much more to remove.

 Reason I ask is I do backups with rsync's --link-dest option, which I like, 
 but there's the problem of deleting the oldest timestamps, as it takes a 
 while...

 Any way to bend the laws of physics?

My email backup (from offlineimap) contains several tens of thousands
of files and really slowed down TimeMachine (every backup had to check
every file to determine which were new in the directory). So I
switched to rsnapshot, which handled the many files much faster, but
still wasn't exactly speedy. Now I just rsync directly to the backup
location (running on FreeNAS) and rely on ZFS snapshots to quickly
make and prune old backups.

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Re: Mount a De-CSS'd DVD?

[Arno Hautala]

There's Fairmount: https://github.com/BoxOfSnoo/Fairmount

Or you could rip the disc to a VIDEO_TS folder. I use RipIt.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten
keybou...@gmail.com wrote:
 Is there a program that can mount a DVD as De-CSS'd?

 My goal is simple: some video players (mplayer/etc) can handle DVD
 movies at faster than normal speed. Apple's DVD player can not do
 anything between 1x speed with audio, and 2x speed without.

 But the program I have -- MPlayerX -- cannot handle the movie that
 shows up when a DVD is inserted -- makes sense, as it is encrypted,
 and the decryption is inside Apple's player.

 How can I just mount the DVD as decrypted?
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Re: Backups, indexing, drive thrashing...

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 Ah, I didn't know about tmutil.  Probably beats find.  (Though neither the
 shell nor man can find it in 10.6...?)

Ah, I know it's there in 10.7, maybe it was new with that OS?

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Re: shell script

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Do you know the extension ahead of time? If so, you can use 'basename'.

FILE=path/foo.txt
BASE=$(basename $FILE .txt)

It also strips off the path so BASE is now foo.
If you want the directory you can use 'dirname'.


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net wrote:
 I'm trying to write a shell script (in a tcsh) which uses a filename
 argument without its extension:

   filename=$1:r
   echo filename

 doesn't work. What is the right way to do it?
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Re: Hidden Partition Collisions

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 As long as a 10.8 recovery partition will correctly service the 10.7 OS 
 partition on the same drive, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem, but will it? 
  Right of the top of my head, I suspect things like Repair Permissions would 
 get wonky, probably some other things.

Repairing permissions looks at the package receipts on the boot drive
that is to be repaired, so I don't think it would be affected by
booting from a different OS version.

You could run into problems if you try to service a 10.8 installation
on a Fusion drive using a 10.7 recovery partition, but I think Apple
handles this like they did the HFS+ transition with some sort of
Where have all my files gone? alert.

So, there probably are some issues you could run into, but you could
always avoid everything by manually partitioning and installing your
own 10.7 and 10.8 recovery partitions next to the main 10.7 and 10.8
installs. I'm pretty sure I've seen tutorials on how to do that.

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Re: Automating a browser...

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You probably want to look at something like Mechanize. There are libraries
for Perl and Python, probably Ruby and others as well. I think Python has
built in libraries that would suffice as well.


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Alex Kornilov alex.kornil...@mail.ruwrote:

 does the web site provide a Webservice? then cURL and libcurl is the
 answer (/usr/bin/curl is include in OS X)


 On 11/11/12 8:41 PM, Andrew Brown wrote:

 Quite legitimately, I want to open a web page, enter data from a file (or
 database) into the fields, hit the next screen button, enter some more
 data, hit the ok button, and repeat, a couple of hundred times.

 How can I do this ? It must be as hard as falling off a log, but I can't
 find the right search string to hit the software that can do this job.

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Re: multiple commands in the shell

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:50 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 When I ssh in to my other Macs I want to always execute a command like 
 `screen` as the first thing I do. However, I don't want to run that command 
 if I am opening a terminal window directly on that machine.

 Basically, what I want to do is simply have an alias that does both of these 
 commands:

 1) ssh user@10.0.0.2
 2) screen -DRRS Fred

When I try all the examples that have been posted (ssh host screen), I
get an error that it Must be connected to a terminal and the session
ends.

I get the same error for tmux. Why aren't you using tmux?

Now, you could probably set something up in your .bashrc on the remote
side that checks the login source and executes the screen command as
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Re: Pluging the phone line into my Mac ?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'd like to get rid of most of the machines I have in the office and the 
 first one I'd like to get rid if the Fax/Phone.

 I'd like to plug the phone line into the Mac (through USB ?) and get/dial my 
 calls and faxes directly through the Mac.

 Is that feasible ? Does that involve black magic ?

An alternative would be to use Google Voice for calling (Chrome or a
browser plugin will let you call through Gmail) and an online Fax
service for documents. I'd personally be hesitant to have another
company receive and forward faxes (though I suppose that's no
different from email or any number of other services), but it sounds
like you should be able to use a USB modem for that anyway.


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Re: Mailings

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Andrew Brown li...@c18.net wrote:
 I need to send out a good number of messages, sometimes a few thousand at a 
 time, and have been using Mailings (http://www.limit-point.com) but it throws 
 away accented characters in a random way.

 Does anyone know of a reliable program for mailings?

The podcasts I listen to say you should use MailChimp.

I personally have no experience in this area.


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Re: Reply to all ?

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:26 AM, Derek Chesterfield d...@mac.com wrote:

 If I log in to my email as @mac.com, and some one emails me at @me.com, the 
 reply to all will cc my @me.com address. But if they email me @mac.com reply 
 to all does not cc me.

 I don't use @mac or @me. I use 3 accounts, 2 on gmail (pop) and 1 with my 
 domain name (pop).

I think the implication was that if you have multiple accounts (which
you do) and you reply to a message from one account, that was sent to
a different account, the original account will be added on CC.

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Re: Repairing access rights

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote:
 Settings: Mac Mini Intel 2011, OSX 10.6.8

 When repairing access rights with DiskUtility.app, the log shows hundreds of 
 folders and files, that shall have wrong Owner/groups (ie Owner 95 instead of 
 0) or access rights, and confirm having repaired them.
 Running DiskUtility.app again, none of them had been repaired, and a check 
 with several folders/files confirm that non repairing...

 What can I do else?

This page may help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448

Though, why are you repairing permissions? It shouldn't need to be a
standard maintenance task. Are you experiencing actual permission
related problems? What are they?

Repairing permissions is rarely a solution to a Mac problem.


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Re: FOLLOW-UP to Why Can't I Empty the Trash

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 This is all true on the Darwin level, but there is some extra voodoo 
 associated with the Trash subsystem.  From the Terminal, the file can be 
 rm'ed with no complaint at all, meaning the underlying OS is happy and all 
 streams are closed.  But there is some extra bookkeeping going on at the 
 Locum level, which is failing.

I don't think I've ever seen rm fail to delete a file because it's
been in use, even on traditional *nix systems. In fact, if I remember
correctly, I'll notice that Trash is stuck on a file (in use), lsof
will list the file as in use by Finder or some other process, rm
completes successfully, and lsof no longer lists the file as in use.

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Re: FOLLOW-UP to Why Can't I Empty the Trash

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote:

 This is all true on the Darwin level, but there is some extra voodoo 
 associated with the Trash subsystem.  From the Terminal, the file can be 
 rm'ed with no complaint at all, meaning the underlying OS is happy and all 
 streams are closed.  But there is some extra bookkeeping going on at the 
 Locum level, which is failing.

 I don't think I've ever seen rm fail to delete a file because it's
 been in use, even on traditional *nix systems. In fact, if I remember
 correctly, I'll notice that Trash is stuck on a file (in use), lsof
 will list the file as in use by Finder or some other process, rm
 completes successfully, and lsof no longer lists the file as in use.

Further, I just tested this on an Ubuntu system by copying the
/bin/sleep binary, running that, deleting the copy, and checking lsof.
It's still listed as in use, but marked as deleted, having been
loaded into memory.

Aside from remaining in the lsof output, this matches what I've seen
on OS X (and why I asked previously about running lsof to check the
stuck files to see which process owns them). I assume the file
disappears from lsof after being rm-ed because the Finder or another
app notices the deletion and cleans up. Or maybe it's the OS realizing
that the file can be released.

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Re: clean out the dust! It can get expensive if you don't

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:32 PM, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote:

 [...] it fits the circumstances better than other possibilities.

False.
Ghosts.
Q.E.D.

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Re: does Time Machine no longer use backupd?

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-04-30, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:

 Thanks for the quick response.  That's weird.  Maybe I am looking in the
 wrong place.  I opened the Console app and clicked on the All Messages
 category under SYSTEM LOG QUERIES.  Then I entered backupd (without
 quotes) in the Filter field, and then all messages disappear in the main
 window.  Should I be looking elsewhere?  Thanks,

I'm not in front of my Lion machine right now, but that sounds
correct. It could be a permissions issue. Are you able to view any
entries from the system.log? Try also clicking the reload button at
the top of the Console window.

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Re: what in the world did I mess up now...

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 18:51, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]
di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:
 -bash: ./nlin.csh: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

Every time I've run into this error (bash, perl, etc) it's because the
file's line endings have been converted to CRLF (Windows format).
dos2unix is a script that can convert it back, but there's probably a
setting for this in your text editor.

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Re: what do these error messages mean?

[Arno Hautala]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:47, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote:

 On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote:

  Also, even if I should not care about it, I do not know how to stop it from 
 running.  Mainly I am concerned because it dominates my Console logs.  These 
 same 15 lines of error messages are repeating every 5 or 10 seconds, so it 
 is difficult to see any other messages because they are buried in millions 
 of lines of centrify/McAfee messages.

 why bother?  My point is:  if this is a centrally managed machine, 
 supposedly, and they don't support Lion, but you installed Lion, why rock the 
 boat?  I don't know how your IT dept is but I would not want to involve IT in 
 anything I did not have to.

If it's anything like my experience with Centrify, it's down to trying
to audit / push out unsupported hardware. The Windows machines are
handled by external IT and Centrify compatible hardware must have that
installed. IT then uses Centrify to log in and inspect the installed
software, looking for security flaws (without checking for backports).
As soon as a few flaws are identified, the hardware is kicked off the
network until justification is supplied. Maintaining the OS and
packages is up to the user.

I don't know if it's the same in this case, but Centrify may be
required for the machine to stay on the network.

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Re: what do these error messages mean?

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 16:29, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]
di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote:

 What is centrify?

Centrify is a central management system for auditing, package
management, etc. I'm guessing this is a company machine? You may need
to have it and McAfee reinstalled with updated versions.

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Re: iMac WiFi

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-04-16, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 (If magnetic fields were additive, a office building full of computers would
 kill people in seconds).

How exactly would that happen? MRIs, for example, aren't known for
killing people.

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Re: Wrong keystrokes with screensharing

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-03-27, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:

 You should be able to change the current layout, and enable a menu bar
 widget, from the International preference pane.

Whoops, that should be Language  Text  Input Sources for
anything since Snow Leopard.

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Re: I hate it when ...

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-03-01, peter.fri...@agfa.com peter.fri...@agfa.com wrote:

 It used to be that on non-querty keyboards you needed to press the key where
 the Q is on a querty keyboard is (e.g., next to the tab key). On an azerty,
 that would be the A key. Maybe they fixed that in more recent versions of
 OSX.

This has indeed been fixed, I think in Snow Leopard.


On 2012-03-01, Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com wrote:

 Still I think it would be nice if their was an option to Quit as well as
 Force Quit from Dock menu when an application is not responding.

I think the point is that an application that isn't responding very
likely won't *respond* to the Quit command. If Apple changes anything
here, I'd expect it to be by dropping the behavior of switching Quit
to Force Quit and just have the OS send what it thinks is the
appropriate signal; Quit if the app is responding, Force Quit if it
isn't.

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Re: I hate it when ...

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On 2012-03-01, John Stalberg johnstalb...@yahoo.se wrote:

 That would be poor communication to the user. Quit and kill is very
 different and the user must be in controll over which to send. For example
 any unsaved data could be lost all of a sudden if the OS killa the program
 :/ And in the case were the proram is busy the user have the choise to wait
 it out until it gets responsive again.

 The issue at hand here is that the OS doesn't know if the process is
 temporarily unresponsive or have got stuck and need to be force quit.

Absolutely, I agree. However, I don't think Apple wants the user to
have to make a decision about whether an application is permanently
unresponsive, or if the system is just temporarily bogged down.

Add to that, the direction Apple is taking applications where
documents are constantly being saved and data loss due to suddenly
killing an application becomes minimized to non-existent.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple went in the direction of allowing
applications to identify that they handle documents in this way and
then automatically force quitting (and perhaps then restarting) the
app when it becomes unresponsive for a certain amount of time.

They already do this with automatically restarting after kernel panics
and power outages.

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Re: Chrome yet?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 09:37, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote:

 Chrome runs a separate task for each tab that is open. As well as a
 process for the plugins. I'd guess that this is what you're seeing.

 Safari, by the way, does the same, but only uses one process for all
 of the tab renderings and another for the UI.

 This way if a page hangs or crashes, the browser stays up and the
 pages reload / re-render as necessary.

 For which, Chrome or Safari?

For both.

Try loading a few tabs in Safari and then kill Safari Web Content
using System Monitor.app. See what happens to your Safari tabs.

With Chrome, you'll have to kill multiple processes named Google
Chrome Renderer.

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Re: Chrome yet?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 14:22, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote:
 Well more to the point then, would that Chrome approach explain why I
 regularly have to force quit Chrome, even after doing a regular quit?

Maybe, though I can't say that I see this sort of behavior.

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Re: PhotostreamAgent Crashing

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 19:51, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 Whenever I try to access the photo stream on my iPhoto app, the 
 PhotoStreamAgent crashes. The crashes look like this, if anyone has any 
 ideas? (I searched for (PhotoStreamAgent+NSKeyedPortCoder and got 0 hits)

Without really have any inside knowledge, my guess is that the agent
is pulling down the list of items in your stream and failing on an
item with a bad key. Either because your photo stream is screwed up
(reset it) or because it's actually loading the list from a cache
(clear out every cache you can find, reboot, try again).

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Re: Chrome yet?

[Arno Hautala]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 19:50,  i.am.list@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone know the deal with Chrome?
 I'm up-to-date (v17.0.963.46) w Lion (10.7.2)
 and I keep getting these weird multiple listings of it in my open processes 
 list (iStat Menus)

Chrome runs a separate task for each tab that is open. As well as a
process for the plugins. I'd guess that this is what you're seeing.

Safari, by the way, does the same, but only uses one process for all
of the tab renderings and another for the UI.

This way if a page hangs or crashes, the browser stays up and the
pages reload / re-render as necessary.

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Re: Lion download

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-01-06, Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote:

 It was a download I did to my MBP and the saved it to an external HD. But
 this did not seem to be universal, at least not in that sense that it loads
 to any machine. It installed easily on MBP, but not on the Mini

Strange. Especially as mine did function universally. I wonder if
there was something else about the Mini that cause it to not function.
With a non-universal installer, I can understand the annoyance caused
by the update you experienced.

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Re: Lion download

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-01-05, Rudolf O.Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote:

 Warning   05.01.12 03.52.05   storeagent  2897
 LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -43
 for application /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app path (null).
 Notice05.01.12 04.06.52   ntpd21  time reset +0.183959 s

 Where is Lion hiding? How do I activate it?

As has been said already, the App Store doesn't directly install Lion;
it downloads an installer (the same is true for installing and
upgrading Xcode). This should be located in your /Applications folder.
I think it's also supposed to automatically launch when the download
completes.

However, note the -43 error and the reference to the Install Mac OS
X Lion.app path. -43 is file not found [1]. If you don't see the
installer under /Applications it sounds like the download failed, but
the App Store thinks it completed.

The easiest way to force a new download is to quit the App Store and
relaunch it while holding Option and continue to hold Option while
pressing install for Lion. Some reports indicate you must hold the key
from launch through pressing Install. [2]

But, check the /Applications folder first.

[1]: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1618
[2]: 
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/18946/how-can-i-force-the-mac-app-store-to-re-install-an-application


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Re: Lion download

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On 2012-01-05, Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote:

 The failing trials of new downloads did therefore not store the installer in
 its proper place but were directed to change the installer on Blackbox.
 Apple interferes really too much in my storing system (big brother cares too
 much   :-)

Heh, I'd forgotten that the Store does this. I actually consider it a
feature; it saves me some effort when I update the installer.

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Re: Lion download

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-01-05, Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote:

 Well a feature or an annoyance...Now, my installer for MBP is broken

I bet it's broken, not because you moved the installer, but because
one of the downloads failed. The MAS doesn't do deltas.

 I would prefer myself to decide where to store it, and it's not up to Apple
 to decide that. That's called freedom   :-)

I think I'd argue that you did store it where you wanted. Apple just
tried to respect that decision and update the installer. For most
users, it's a feature.

Aside from the failed download, can you explain the downside to this behavior?

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Re: new user setup

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:50, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net wrote:

 Or is there a better way to turn admin abilities on and off?

Do you need to log in as the admin? Or can you just authenticate when needed?

As a non-admin user when altering admin protected files, for example,
the Finder should prompt for admin credentials. In the Terminal, you
can use su or sudo to create an admin shell, and then use sudo again
to execute commands as root.

What tasks require you to fully log in as an admin?


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Re: new user setup

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 13:29, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net wrote:
 Or is there a better way to turn admin abilities on and off?

 Do you need to log in as the admin? Or can you just authenticate when
 needed?

 Doesn't there have to be at least one admin user and one separate 'standard'
 user?

There needs to be at least one admin. This, by default, is the only
user. There's no need for a separate standard user, aside from good
practice.

I, for example, created a new admin user, removed my existing user
from the admin group, and have never logged in to the admin user with
the GUI.


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Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 22:56, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 That, and all sorts of other Siri relate stuff, as well as auto fill 
 information in Safari.

 For example, call my sister or similar, is all based on the information on 
 the me card.

Ah, good point. I may have to copy everything to that card. Or at
least some of the more relevant info. I'll probably try sharing that
card actually. Do shared cards stay in sync? Not that the card would
actually change all that often.

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iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

[Arno Hautala]

My wife just got an iPhone and set it up last night. Right now we just
have one iCloud account and are using that to sync contacts. The only
problem is that setting the contact that contains her information on
the iPhone (the Me or My information card) also changes that
setting on all the other devices that are syncing with that iCloud
account.

How can we continue to sync our contacts, but not sync the Me / My
Info setting?

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Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:14, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote:
 Don't think you can. The iCloud account is a single account and as such can 
 have only one 'me' entry. Get a second iCloud and you can share the calendar 
 (and address book I think) with each other.

OK, I figured it'd involve a second account.

How do you share calendars and contacts across accounts? So far,
everything I've seen seems to indicate that you either have to
individually share every contact (delete the duplicates on one
account, individually share everything back), or live with duplicates
that will become out of sync. [1]

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of setup? Can I edit
the contacts that are shared with me from that second account? Are
those edits synced back to iCloud?

Thanks for your help.

[1]: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16445117#16445117


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Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

[Arno Hautala]

Thanks, I'll try this out tonight.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 14:14, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote:
 Now that I'm on my Mac instead of my iPad . . .once you have the second 
 account setup just go into your calendar and share it with your wife's iCloud 
 address and vice versa. You will each get an email from the other offering 
 the subscription, once you accept it the shared calendar will show up in 
 iCal, iPhone, etc.

 Sharing contacts is slightly different . . .in Address Book (once you get 
 both converted over to iCloud instead of Mobile Me . . .select File - 
 Subscribe to Address Book and put in the email address. That way she can 
 subscribe to your address book and any changes you make will get reflected in 
 her subscribed copy . . .

 I tried to subscribe to my wife's address book but it didn't work right since 
 (a) she's not on iCloud yet and (b) she isn't sharing with me . . .but I'm 
 assuming that once she shares with you in iCloud it will work. I don't see 
 any obvious sharing options in Address Book or the iCloud site . . .so I'm 
 hoping that sharing the calendar works.



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Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

[Arno Hautala]

OK, I ended up creating a new iCloud account for her. That account
contains only a single contact with her name that I marked as her
card. That was my only issue and so far it seems to be working fine.

What is the My info / My Card used for anyway? Identifying the name
to be used for Siri?

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. A second, dummy account seems to
be doing the trick for me.

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Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:41, Jared Earle jea...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://23x.co.uk/test/sae.mp3

Option click didn't work, but the contextual menu option to Download
linked file was fine.

There's also the route of copy link, use curl.

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Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:07, Jared Earle jea...@gmail.com wrote:

 It should be easier and not require a work-around.

Absolutely.

There are several regressions like this with Lion and they're my
biggest complaints about the new OS. The other that jumps to mind is
how the preview pane in column view no longer has the disclosure
triangle for the actual file preview. That's a huge pain with network
file systems.

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Re: [SPF:Probably_Forged] Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files

[Arno Hautala]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 13:30, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote:

 Option click didn't work, but the contextual menu option to Download
 linked file was fine.

 i just see this:

 nothing else
 disabling ClickToFlash doesn't help

Sorry, Download linked file shows up when you click a link to the
audio file, not when it's already loaded.

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Re: MobileMe sending mail (LION)

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 16:48, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't have anything to hide at all. In fact if you google hard
 enough you can find that information about me since some creep stalked
 me and mailed my personal information to the linux-kernel list which
 is widely mirrored... Took me a week to work with list maintainers to
 have the posts removed and to notify Google of the rest that weren't
 being removed to have those results buried.

I don't get it. If you didn't have anything to hide, why did you go
about hiding the information that was posted? And why refer to the
person as a creep stalker? Seems like they were just posting
publicly available, relevant information. If it wasn't relevant to be
posted after all, why would they have gone looking for it and posted
it online? /sarcasm

I don't think the connection between Google Ads and oppressive
governments is all that apt, but the nothing done wrong, nothing to
hide statement is off-base and ignorant.

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Re: Lion's restore windows

[Arno Hautala]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 21:13, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote:
 I generally like Lion's restore windows (System Prefs - General).

 However, for some apps, it drives me crazy.  I wish I could control this on a 
 per app basis.

There was a hint on Mac OS X Hints recently about this.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110918051930924

It talks about completely disabling restore, but you should be able to
lock the restore folder for individual apps rather than the parent
folder.


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Re: Security 101 for Macs

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 15:28, Nathan Sims
newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote:

 I have a system where that has about 1GB of Time Machine backups on an 
 external drive. If I turn on File Vault, what does it do to the existing Time 
 Machine backups? Encrypt them also? Leave them in cleartext? Will the new 
 Time Machine backups be done encrypted?

I can't confirm this from experience, but my understanding is that the
existing and future backups won't be encrypted. When you attach a new
drive and you're give the option to use it for TimeMachine, you're
also given the option to encrypt the backups.

All this does is turn on FileVault encryption for the TimeMachine
drive / partition. You can do the same using the command line to
enable encryption on your existing backup drive.

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Re: Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs

[Arno Hautala]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 00:36, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 On 16 Sep 2011, at 10:55 , Arno Hautala wrote:

 On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:30, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 I have the problem where I have an iPad that my eldest uses, and I want him 
 to be able to have iTunes gift cards I his own account and be ale to buy 
 apps, but I don't want to give him my apple id, especially since I use it 
 for all sorts of stuff at Apple.

 I doubt Apple will allow having multiple IDs being active on the same
 device at once.

 They always have done in the past. I doubt that will change.

I'm confused then. I thought you were saying you couldn't do this, as
in your example with your son. If you can have multiple accounts
active, what's the problem with having gift cards on his account?


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 23:01, David Patrick Henderson
dphenders...@gmail.com wrote:

 Maybe we need to define what is meant by “active” IDs. I know that in iTunes, 
 I have at least 4 ids authorized concurrently, but most of my purchases have 
 been under only one of them.

Yes, I thought you could only have one account in use on an iOS device
at a time for purchasing. And the same with OS X. Hence the 90 day
account switching restriction. I know you can use purchases from
multiple accounts, but to be honest, I'm not sure of the details on
this as I've only ever needed one account.

So I guess I'm not sure what active means either.

The only wording I've seen that makes it look like a user could
actually be logged into multiple Apple ID / Mobile Me / iCloud
accounts is if one is used for mail and syncing, and another is used
for purchasing. I haven't seen anything to indicate that users will be
able to quickly switch between accounts when purchasing content on a
device.

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Re: Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs

[Arno Hautala]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 14:12, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:

 What I want is to have the main account and then have subordinate accounts so 
 that I can give limited access to those accounts (for example, can only 
 purchase off a gift card) but have those purchases all be grouped under the 
 main account.

Gotcha, that's what I thought. It'd be a great feature. Unfortunately,
I don't see it happening. Apple doesn't even have something similar
for enterprise users.


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Re: password management

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:05, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net wrote:

 How long would it take to try 20 wrong passwords to get into your bank
 account or whatever? Try it.

 Phishing, especially spear phishing, works better.

I don't think anyone is going to break into a bank account by
attacking the front door. Not using password or your birthday
protects against that anyway.

Complex passwords are for protecting against the situation where the
bank's salted password database is stolen and the attacker starts to
brute force each hash.

Though most banks probably just store it plaintext anyway.

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Re: password management

[Arno Hautala]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:06, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote:
 On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:22, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:

 Though most banks probably just store it plaintext anyway.

 I hope we've gotten beyond that.

Wishes and horses.

I haven't checked recently, but a few months ago Chase was stripping
capitalization (and possibly truncating as well, I forget). While not
proof of plain text storing, it's certainly less than ideal.

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Re: Mac App Store: rollback a previous version of a software

[Arno Hautala]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 18:52, Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry. Forget to say that I don't have a TimeMachine backup :-(

It doesn't have to be a Time Machine backup, whatever backup system
you're using should be fine.

... No really, start backing up. If you haven't already lost important
data, consider this your wake up call.

Unless you backed up the application you're out of luck. Apple doesn't
provide a means of rolling back.

Your other course of action would be to contact the developer with a bug report.

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Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 09:34, Michael Winter win...@mac.com wrote:

 I wish it were that simple. That makes sense, but software licenses and 
 sense don't always go together. Different companies write the license in 
 different ways. Some license the software to a person (that one person can 
 use it wherever they are), some license it to a single machine (anybody can 
 use it on that one machine), others license it to a single user on a single 
 machine.

In this case though, it's not figuring out how multiple companies are
licensing software, but how Apple is licensing that software.
Everything sold through the Mac App Store has the same license
conditions regardless of which company wrote the software. Every App
Store developer submits their software for sale through the Mac App
Store under the same license. It's part of the conditions of making
the software available. I'm not aware of Apple giving special
treatment to any developer.


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Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:18, Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com wrote:

 I do what you suggest now but believe it won't be possible in the future.

 Yes, I know that is iCloud but I think the Setting-Store  will be the iCloud 
 account in the future.

 How do MobileMe (soon to be iCloud) account, iTunes Store account, and Mac 
 App Store account relate going forward?

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about the future.
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Re: [SPF:Probably_Forged] Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

[Arno Hautala]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:27, Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com wrote:

 Sorry folks for confusing things, I'll wait and see.

Not that I want to discourage discussion, just that it seems to me
that in this case the information isn't available yet. Or at least,
it's not well defined. iCloud is, I think, a month or two away,
hopefully things will be clearer when it arrives.

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