Category Archives: OS X

My adventures in the land of Mac.

make your Mac listen up

Published: 4 February 2008
I'm so tickled I can't stand it. All right, so Speech Recognition stuff on a Mac is pretty darn cool by itself, but now I've got a nice Apple Script that opens up Safari with various tabs of my favorite sites, and it does this when I tell my Macbook "Get on it."
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chmodding and Ruby

Published: 1 February 2008
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
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DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Published: 6 November 2007
To make it more convenient for me to take clean notes, as opposed to notes filled with "x^2" and "y_j", I looked into changing the key bindings in OS X.
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using Perl and Apache on OS X

Published: 22 March 2007
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI--bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked.
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