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Comment on Using Applescript to kill off a process by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:27:09 +0000

Thanks a lot! It’s very useful!

Comment on Adding and deleting login items using AppleScript by Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:39:15 +0000

This is great, but I would like a script to add the currently running app to my login items. Can this be done? Thanks so much!

Comment on Using Terminal to control Spotlight by Fixing a corrupted Spotlight index on Mac OS X | Rudi Engelbrecht's Blog

Fixing a corrupted Spotlight index on Mac OS X | Rudi Engelbrecht's Blog — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:35:06 +0000

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Comment on Using Applescript to kill off a process by liam

liam — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:17:17 +0000

really cool

Comment on Adding and deleting login items using AppleScript by webmaster

webmaster — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:51:16 +0000

You’re on the right track but this script won’t do it for you. You need to use something like “disktutil” at the command line.

My suggestion is open Terminal and type “disktutil list” and get the path to the volume you want to unmount. It will probably be something like /dev/disk1s2.

The do a one-line applescript like this:

do shell script “/usr/sbin/diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s2″

Save that as a script or application and add it to your login items.

Comment on Adding and deleting login items using AppleScript by Jim

Jim — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:54:50 +0000

Ok so the problem is probably not with your coding but with my lack of programming experience but either way i can not seem to get this to work. I am attempting to add a script to my login items that will unmount a volume called .Secondary . I want it to be as far removed from the normal functioning of the computer as i can make it, but people keep telling me that this is not possible due to the partitions location on my internal drive.

I would really appreciate any recommendations!
thanks

Comment on Switching between 32 bit and 64 bit mode in Snow Leopard by Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:18:14 +0000

Worked like a charm the very first time — no fuss, no muss. Thanks very much. I tried the other methods of mucking around to get Snow Leopard to permanently boot in 64-bit mode, and they are all rife with problems to execute. This was a simple copy and paste into my Terminal program and re-booting my Mac, and now I’m in 64 with no problems. Thanks again.

Comment on Getting user login data from Macs using AppleScript by mohawke

mohawke — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:30:46 +0000

What’s wrong with Python?

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess, time
# OS X 10.6+ -Mohawke 2010

def get_user_logons(get_month, report=’/Users/mohawke/Desktop/logons.csv’):
data=[]; clean=[]
fields = ‘user,type,from,to,dur(mins)\n’
# Won’t worry about year considering the user picks a month…
year = time.strftime(‘%Y’, time.localtime(time.time()))
months={‘Jan’:1,’Feb’:2,’Mar’:3,’Apr’:4,
‘May’:5,’Jun’:6,’Jul’:7,’Aug’:8,’Sep’:9,
‘Oct’:10,’Nov’:11,’Dec’:12}

# get the data via the last command.
process = subprocess.Popen(‘last’, shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
data = process.communicate()
logins = data[0].split(‘\n’)
data = [entry.split() for entry in logins if entry]

# get data based on users input, format, and write out the data.
f=open(report,’w')
f.write(fields)

for item in data:
if ‘in’ in item[-1]: continue
if ‘wtmp’ in item[0]:
logstart = ‘ ‘.join(item)
print logstart
continue
user = item[0]
type = item[1]
end_time = item[-2]
start_time = item[-4]
day = item[-5]
month = item[-6]

if months[month] == get_month:
# conv. time in secs… Nice for storing…
date_frm = ‘%s/%s/%s %s’ %(months[month], day, year, start_time)
date_to = ‘%s/%s/%s %s’ %(months[month], day, year, end_time)
tt_to = time.strptime(date_to, ‘%m/%d/%Y %H:%M’)
tt_frm = time.strptime(date_frm, ‘%m/%d/%Y %H:%M’)
secs_frm = time.mktime(tt_frm)
secs_to = time.mktime(tt_to)
dur = (secs_to – secs_frm) / 60
clean.append([user,type,secs_frm,secs_to,dur]) # in case you want to save it.
f.write(user+’,'+type+’,'+time.ctime(secs_frm)+’,'+time.ctime(secs_to)+’,'+str(dur)+’\n’)
f.close()
return clean

try:
print get_user_logons(4)
except Exception, error:
print error

Comment on Turning your Airport Card on and off by webmaster

webmaster — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:49:44 +0000

You have to run that command as root. Make sure you put “sudo” in front of it.

sudo /usr/bin/networksetup -setairportpower on

Comment on Turning your Airport Card on and off by Roger Lohn

Roger Lohn — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:47:09 +0000

I am running a MacBook Pro, 2.2 Ghz Intel core 2 duo, 10.5.8
Can not get my airport card to turn on. Tried
/usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportpower on

Got request denied

Where to next? Thank you for any help you can provide.

Regards, Roger