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GoogleClickUntracker

Christi — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:00:53 +0000

So I decided that I didn’t want Google to track my clicks. Download the safari extension here.

Theme update

Christi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:27:57 +0000

Found a site on one of my rss feeds flavors.me and really like the concept that they have.

Hence, updated the theme on my site (shamelessly copied the idea) but did learn some cool new tricks while doing so. (Notice the background image automatically stretches while maintaining its aspect ratio on different browser sizes on the homepage).

Auto mount drives on Leopard with AppleScript

Christi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:55:26 +0000

tell application "Finder"
	if exists disk "Shared_Vol" then
	else
		mount volume "afp://user@myserver.com/Shared_Vol"
	end if
	if exists disk "input" then
	else
		mount volume "smb://user:passw0rd@mywindowsbox.com/input"
	end if
end tell

To run it from command line or crontab:

osascript theAppleScript.scpt

Expect to the rescue!

Christi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:02:39 +0000

When you can’t pipe an input file to automate a process, especially when you need to enter a password such as ftp-ing to some server e.g.:

ftp user@ftp.myhost.com < myFTPCommands.txt

The above fails when ftp asks for a password. This is where expect comes to the rescue! e.g.:

#myExpectFile.exp

#Disable's expect's default 10 seconds timeout
set timeout -1

spawn ftp user@ftp.myhost.com
expect "password:"
send "mySoSecuredPassword\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "get someFileFromFTP.txt\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "put someFileFromLocalhost.txt\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "quit\r"

Save the file and then try running it:

expect myExpectFile.exp

Magic happens!