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Re: Run Python Script

schwa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:07:30 -0000

Have tried to update this for Snow Leopard and had mixed results.

http://bitbucket.org/schwa/toxic-public/changes...

Re: CocoaJSON

schwa — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:53:39 -0000

This code has been made redundant by:

http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchJSON

Re: CocoaJSON

ThomasW — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:53:24 -0000

When I click the 'some code' link I get "Repository access denied."

Re: Run Python Script

wolken11 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:05:18 -0000

How to get it working on OS 10.5.8 with Automator 2.0.4? Double clicking opens Automator, but nothing more. Manually opening says the action can not be opened.
I use the 0.1 version downloaded from Apple as all the links here are dead :-(

Any idea?

Re: SVN Update Automator Action

schwa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:53:23 -0000

I've stopped using SVN so I probably wont ever be upgrading this to Snow Leopard. Sorry!

Re: SVN Update Automator Action

derekvanvliet — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:31:06 -0000

It's not working in Snow Leopard because it isn't a universal action.

Re: Run Python Script

myxibrium — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:40:14 -0000

I'm having the same problem!
When I return the input directly, this is similar to what I get:
{current application, current application, current application}

What the heck is current application?

Re: Run Python Script

happydenn — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:12:02 -0000

Hello,

Just recently I'm using this action with Automator from 10.5.7
How do I output data to the next action? I've tried to return but the next action can't seem to get anything.

Also another question, how do I access Automator variables using python?

Thanks for the help!

Re: Making Mercurial use the Mac OS X Keychain

twitter-14315745 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:25:58 -0000

Thank you. I find it extremely useful.

Re: New Sample Code: Ping Tool

mg — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:51:54 -0000

Hey. This seems to be down. Can you post the code again?

Re: ExpressionEngine to WordPress

Tom Johnson — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:03:37 -0000

I'm interested in migrating an EE site to WordPress, but I'm not as tech savvy as you. Do you ever do freelance jobs?

Re: SpaceNavigator controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT

jacques — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:50:51 -0000

just found your page, do you if there is a "generic" bluetooth app to remote control the nxt with a mac book? your software works only with space navigator?

Re: Making Mercurial use the Mac OS X Keychain

Andreas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:31:13 -0000

Three things: www.bitbucket.org causes a certificate problem because of the "www" subdomain.

Pure python keychain access: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/02/05... has a module for keychain access, without a .so required.Maybe this is interesting for you.

Python conventions: Your code looks quite Ruby-like, you can monkey-patch (if you must) in a small scale without that __metaclass__ voodoo, by simply defining a method outside the class and assigning it:

>>> class Foo(object):
... def bar(self):
... print "FooBar"
...
>>> _baseFooBar = Foo.bar
>>> def newBar(self):
... print "NewBar"
... _baseFooBar(self)
...
>>> Foo.bar = newBar
>>> Foo().bar()
NewBar
FooBar

Re: Is that an HTTP server in your Cocoa application or are you just pleased to see me?

Carlo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:24:55 -0000

Hi. So can you please provide the the code for that application? Would be really appreciated!

Re: Spotlight Importer Collection

Simon Wagstaff — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:37:30 -0000

I'm an interested Toxic URL Importer user. I see some recent activity at Google Code, but no new install package. Is an updated version in the works?

Re: AquaticPrime Warning

Justin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:07:09 -0000

Forgot the other important part, there would also be a second invalid "test" key, so it would also check to make sure the invalid key was rejected. Doing this would also cover the scenario where it was modified to accept all keys.

Re: AquaticPrime Warning

Justin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:05:24 -0000

Wouldn't it be possible to embed an encrypted "test" key into the app? That way you could run the test key, make sure it shows as valid, then run the real key. If someone used the input manager crack, then the "test" key wouldn't be accepted. Then, in order to crack the app, the encryption on the "test" key would have to be broken too.

Re: A Special Kind Of Idiot

Ronald Lanham — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:49:52 -0000

I wonder whether his attitude may have actually lead to his becoming disabled?
What goes around...
And I have personally seen strange things happen to people in hospitals when they are pricks.

Re: A Special Kind Of Idiot

Ronald Lanham — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:28 -0000

Totally agree.
He became incredibly hostile to me simply because I was asking for tech support years ago. Then he actually banned me from entering his site at all!
The guy is a total nut case so I warned people on MacUpdate and VersionTracker a long time ago and it appears to have had an effect. There have been almost no post on either of these sites regarding his software 'CLIX' after I posted URLs to check out just what the developer community and the judicial system think of him. :))

Re: Upgraded to Expression Engine 1.2.1

amywood — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:13:25 -0000

hey - I am trying to figure out how to get disqus into my EE site - any advice?

Re: FileVault Corruption

schwa — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:26:09 -0000

Hey Bruce,

I haven't used FileVault in years - since this blog post actually. Wish I could help but really - might be time to create a new user account and swap your files manually? I don't know.

Sorry.

Re: FileVault Corruption

Bruce Campbell — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:18:31 -0000

Oh boy, FileVault (I now call it VileFault) has become corrupt on my Leopard MBP, I found I couldn't log in to my normal working account, and I took the following steps to fix it:

<ol>
<li>I logged into the admin account I have had set up on my machine since the beginning so I could do some diagnostics</li>
<li>Immediately ran DiskWarrior, which reported that all the files could be recovered, but that it couldn't write the repaired directory, as it detected a media fault (I guess this means the damaged sparseimage acts the same as a damaged HD), so I should immediately copy the files to another location.</li>
<li>I quickly got out my portable backup FireWire drive, plugged it in and copied the files to the backup disk</li>
<li>Tried several times to copy the sparseimage file to another backup disk, so that I could go back if this whole process doesn't work</li>
<li>When Finder copy didn't work, I tried using SuperDuper! to copy the sparseimage, but that failed as well.</li>
<li>In frustration, I trashed the sparseimage, emptied the trash, then copied the recovered file structure from the DiskWarrior run into the Users folder.</li>
<li>Attempted to log on to my normal account, and got the same message, "You are unable to log in to the FileVault user account "bmc" at this time" with the second line "Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."</li>
</ol>
Is that it? Is there any way to get the OS to "forget" about the FileVault status, and just deal with the recovered directory structure as if FileVault had never been turned on?

A couple of other pieces of information:
<ul>
<li>Running Leopard 10.5.6 now, but upgraded from Tiger.</li>
<li>FileVault was implemented in Tiger (the old version of FV), and I didn't do the right thing when I upgraded.</li>
<ol>
<li>I should have done a full backup.</li>
<li>I should have turned FV off before the drive got too full to do it.</li>
<li>I should have done a clean install and migrate, rather than upgrading over Tiger.</li>
</ol>
</ul>

Any assistance greatfully appreciated! This is both painful, and time consuming!

Re: Grab that Invocation

chrome — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:43:27 -0000

Great work; saved me a bunch of time writing this myself.

Re: 24 Hours with the Android G1 Dev Phone

Geniusdog254 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:45:25 -0000

I believe the market is on there however all the apps are available on certain websites to download & install manually. Search modmygphone.com for more info. Hope this helps!

Re: 24 Hours with the Android G1 Dev Phone

jedimdan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:23:39 -0000

I read somewhere that there's no Android Marketplace on the dev phone, but it seems that you managed to get 3rd-party apps. Was my previous read inaccurate or are you using a different way to obtain 3rd-party apps?