Secure synchronization with wuala
July 15th, 2010 by Markus No comments »Today I reanimate my Mac (the one you can’t carry in a small bag 😉 and came back to the secure synchronization problem. Woala seems to be a new and good pice of software, developed in Switzerland from some IT guys – you got my trust. Seems to work good for backups, but changing a 5MB file on both machines leads to one version and no complaints about a conflic (the newer silently wins). Thats not ok for my Things Database (todo-list)…
Secure synchronization with OS X launchd and unison
January 14th, 2010 by Markus No comments »After some weeks of using TeamDrive I felt that I have to get another solution for syncing. TeamDrive isn’t bad, but it isn’t good either. It works most of the time, say 95%. But syncing is a matter of 100% trust, so I can’t live with crashes or “oh, I’ll sync in a few minutes, perhaps”.
So I decided to give unison and OS X “Folder Action” a try. But those don’t have a “on file change” event and reading about it many user complain that they aren’t really reliable. So that wouldn’t be better that TeamDrive.
Than launchd came in my head. I remembered the magic with the ssh-keys and thought: Hey, use a launchd FSEvent and combine it with unison – that’s it! Read some doc and finally: All you need is a little plist like this:
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16 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>de.dlite.unison</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/Users/joedoe/bin/unison.sh</string>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/joedoe/Library/Things</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Than add it to launchd via
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.dlite.unison.plist
and here we go: Saving a file, creating a new one or deleting an old one always delivers a fine call of my unison-script which syncs with my own server. 🙂
Font size in WordPress Plugin CodeColorer
January 5th, 2010 by blog No comments »Today I replaced SyntaxHighlighter Evolved simply because he doesn’t support AppleScript. After some tests CodeColorer was the one to take with one problem: The font was really big. After some minutes of searching I replaced the font size given in wp-content/plugins/codecolorer/codecolorer.css from
5 | .codecolorer, .codecolorer *, .codecolorer-container, .codecolorer-container * { font: 13px/1.4em Monaco, Lucida Console, monospace } |
to
5 | .codecolorer, .codecolorer *, .codecolorer-container, .codecolorer-container * { font: 10px Monaco, Lucida Console, monospace } |
Creating To Dos from Redmine in Things
January 5th, 2010 by Markus No comments »I just have had to create a dozen of To Dos in Things based on Redmine Issues. Being lazy I thougth I could spend an hour better in coding than in typing new To Dos, so here it is:
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40 # v2010010402
tell application "Firefox"
# set myFirefox to properties of front window as list
# set theTitle to «class pTit» of front window as text
set theTitle to name of front window
# Calling display ... within tell application "Firefox" leads to error
# -1728 every time you call the script again till firefox is really
# closed, so save the vars and end tell
end tell
if (length of theTitle < 2) then
display alert "Could not get the title (empty)"
else
# save previous delimiters
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "#"
set theSubstring to (text item 2 of theTitle) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " - Issue Tracker xyz"
set theName to "#" & (text item 1 of theSubstring) as text
# restore delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
tell application "Things"
set newToDo to make new to do with properties {name:theName}
end tell
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
set the allNotificationsList to {"Task Created"}
set the enabledNotificationsList to {"Task Created"}
register as application ¬
"Create Task from Multiple Mail (Growl Enabled)" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
icon of application "Things"
notify with name ¬
"Task Created" title ¬
"Task created in Things" description ¬
theName application name "Create Task from Multiple Mail (Growl Enabled)"
end tell
end if
spamgourmet bleibt Nummer 1
December 17th, 2009 by Markus No comments »Habe gerade noch ein wenig geforscht, ob es eine vertrauenswürdige Alternative zum vom Ansatz her genialen spamgourmet.com gibt (Problem: spamgourmet kann alle E-Mails grundsätzlich mitlesen, speichern, etc), leider nichts gefunden. Der CCC, das wäre mein favorisierter Betreiber, hat einen etwas anderen Service, anonbox.net. Hier wird die E-Mail Adresse für einige Stunden bereitgehalten, nicht das, was ich suche.
Als ich dann festgestellt habe, dass spamgourmet Open Source ist habe ich die weitere Suche eingestellt und bleibe vorerst da. Vielleicht gibts ja irgendwann einen eigenen spamgourmet Dienst..
Dropbox vs ifolder vs TeamDrive
November 18th, 2009 by Markus No comments »Nachdem ich den Versuch, Dropbox mit EncFS unter Snow Leopard zu betreiben, aufgegeben habe musste eine alternative Lösung her. Im Rennen waren: Dropbox einfach so nutzen, iFolder oder TeamDrive.
Gegen Dropbox spricht der externe Server, die Daten landen irgendwo auf irgendeinem Rechner in der “Cloud”. Ich weiß nicht, was mit den Daten geschieht. Vielleicht bin ich paranoid, aber es gefällt mit nicht.
iFolder ist von Ansatz her perfekt, OpenSource, Windos und Mac Client. Aber in .Net geschrieben und der Server scheint Probleme unter Linux != SLES zu machen. Auch gibt es keine Lobeshymnen für die Linux und Mac Version. Ungesehen ausgeschieden.
TeamDrive kam dann als letztes ins Spiel. Aus Deutschland, in der kostenfreien Version mit Werbung, für nur 29 EUR einmalig aber wegzukaufen. Eigener WebDav Server wird unterstützt, was will man mehr?
Ok, Style. TeamDrive ist einfach nicht stylish, nicht so cool, hübsch und einfach wie Dropbox. Erinnert mich etwas an Windows 2000 vs Mac OS X 😉 Aber davon abgesehen scheint es wirklich brauchbar zu sein, kurz unter Debian Etch / Apache 2.2 eine WebDAV Verzeichnis eingerichtet, Client heruntergeladen, konfiguriert und es klappt.
Switch from MLO to Things
November 4th, 2009 by Markus No comments »After month of using MyLifeOrganized (MLO) within Parallels under Mac (and years using it under plain old Windows) I finally made the switch to a native and amazing Mac OS Software: Things.
The only reason to wait so long for the switch was the data in MLO. There was no converter and using copy & paste for ~1500 entries was way to much for a lazy programmer. So I wrote a converter and yes – here we are. After processing 1h all entries are there including german umlauts, I love UTF8. Ok, much work to do after the move as I have used a deep hirachy within my outline in MLO, but better than nothing.