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Auto mount drives on Leopard with AppleScript

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

Opening New terminal in Leopard in the Current or Other Specified Directory

Found this tip over at macosxhints.com and also tlrobinson.net to be very useful. I don’t know how many times I’ve always open a new terminal with cmd-n and slowly cd into the current directory of the other terminal window.
However, both guides had something lacking from each other. The guide from macosxhints.com can’t be completed because I can’t [...]

Mac HDD Cloning and Prebinding Issues

Recently, I cloned my hard disk using SuperDuper!. After a successful cloning, I could boot the cloned drive but was unable to open any of my applications. Each time I tried to open an application, it crashes instantly; even the Terminal. So I did a bit of googling and found that Leopard and SuperDuper sometimes [...]