I have multiple computers, so I can easily ssh into my desktop when the screensaver password is hanging and won’t let me log in. The not-so-new trick has been to use AppleScript on the command line to not-so-harshly close some applications (run osascript, then tell application “program name” to quit, followed by ctrl-D (EOF). The [...]
I might have been wrong, or at least not entirely right, when I said that AppleScript’s XML-RPC was doing something screwy with UTF8-encoded responses to XML-RPC requests. I’m not sure if it’s LiveJournal (and other sites based on their code), or if it’s something inherent in XML-RPC, but whether I make the XML-RPC calls in [...]
While the ease of making XML-RPC calls in AppleScript is wonderful for, say, writing a LiveJournal Client in mostly AppleScript Studio, it seems to be doing something really messed up with UTF8 strings returned by the server—they come into AppleScript as raw data objects, which it seems can’t be cast into any other type and [...]
I started working on asLJ after I came across this. One of the problems that I quickly ran into was that the URLs in the tell application “<url>” to call xmlrpc … bits had to be hard-coded. That is, AppleScript didn’t like it when I tried to assemble the URL string on the fly. It [...]
asLJ is a new client for Macs running Leopard that easily handles multiple accounts on LiveJournal and other LJ-based sites and facilitates cross-posting across accounts. Release notes and download link are in aslj_client. The community for users is aslj_users. (As it is very LJ-centric, most of the information about it will be over at LJ, [...]
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Posted 09 February 2009
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Since my employer’s wireless network is unencrypted and since I use other open WiFi networks with some frequency, I’ve gotten in the habbit of tunneling everything through SSH, using the SOCKS5 proxy mechanism built in to SSH. In WinXP, there’s a nice little program called Tunnelier that makes the setup of the tunnel simple and [...]
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Posted 13 June 2008
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