Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/18
Very interesting read:
Being involved with teaching young students to code, I have come to the tentative conclusion that many coding kids have not actually been taught programming. This has been going on for a while, so some of this cohort are now themselves teaching others. I have noticed that many people doing programming actually lack many of…
–jeroen
Source: On Teaching Programming | OpenSTEM Pty Ltd
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/17
Brilliant: In only 14 keystrokes you are able to get the Font inspector window!
What happened to Command-Plus and Command-Minus to zoom in/out which about every Mac OS X app support?
–jeroen
via: How to Increase Font Size in the xcode editor? – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/16
Interesting: this works through an on-line service that monitors up to 2 servers for free (including protocols like HTTP, SMTP and PING).
You can get reports at either through:
I’m using this to monitor my boxes at home.
A demo video is below.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/15
LOL:
The if syntax of your script was a bit…well, iffy.
Indeed it is:
#!/bin/bash
#toggle AppleShowAllFiles
current_value=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles)
if [ $current_value = "TRUE" ]
then
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
else
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
fi
killall Finder
Even the alternative if statement is:
if [[ $(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles) == TRUE ]]
–jeroen
via osx – Toggle AppleShowAllFiles with a simple bash script? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/12
Interesting: site:www.e-reading.link/bookreader.php – Google Search.
Likely highly illegal, but it has a lot of things in PDF that I already have on paper of stuff that is hard to get otherwise.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/09
When you’re not a frequent iTunes user, and recycle computer systems, then every once in a while you will get you in to a situation where you have Music on your iPod, but not on your PC any more.
Whereas iTunes is great at putting music on an iPod, it cannot get it back.
There are numerous paid tools to get the music from your iPod, but doing it manually is not that hard. Below are a few links to get you started, but they all come down to this:
- Your iPod has a hidden folder called iPod_Control in the root
- Inside the iPod_Control folder is a folder called Music
- Inside the Music folder, there are folders named with letters and numbers like F00
- Each numbered folder has media (music, video or even photos!) files with a strangely encoded name like B00N.mp3 or 3DUN.m4v with supported media extensions including mp3 m4a m4p jpg gif tif m4v mov.
- The media files contain meta data with song, artist, album, etc.
The steps to copy them back
- Do not erase your iPod when opening it in iTunes!
- Ensure you can mount your iPod as a disk (the “enable disk use” option in iTunes)
- Mount your iPod as a disk in Mac or PC
- Ensure you can view the hidden files
- Copy the Music folder including all subfolders to your Mac or PC
- Unhide the Music folder and all
Music and Music/F* folders inside it using this chflags trick from Unhiding Unix Directories | Apple Support Communities:
chflags nohidden Musicchflags nohidden Music/F*
- Add these to your iTunes library and have iTunes re-generate the correct filenames from the meta-data
Some links explaining this in more detail:
–jeroen
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