Hacks

Change 10.4 Finder's "Secure Empty Trash" Options

biovizier — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:44:33 -0500

So I’m paranoid, but not THAT paranoid.

Sometimes I feel like using “Secure Empty Trash”, but that uses ’/usr/bin/srm’ with the ’-m’ option (7 passes), which can take a while to complete. Most of the time, I only care about what might turn up with simple file recovery tools in case my drive gets stolen (as opposed to covering my tracks from say law enforcement or a foreign government) so really, a single pass should be plenty for my needs. I could always use ’srm’ directly, but the convenience the built-in tool offers in handling the Trashes on various volumes, and having a built-in menu item is nice.

It turns out the ’srm’ option used by “Secure Empty Trash” in Tiger is specified in the file: There's more »

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Resources/Locum

Pretending to be an iPhone

Adam Knight — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:01:20 -0500

This is entirely pointless if you have an iPhone. However, if you’re locked into a Sprint contract until next October, sometimes it’s nice to see how the other side lives.

The iPhone redirects RSS requests through reader.mac.com with a special URL: http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http%3A//domain.com/feed.xml. However, going to that directly on a Mac gives you the “You’re not an iPhone” message.

Curious as to what I was missing, I grepped MG’s logs for iPhone browser user agent strings (we’re well-read in the Bay Area, it appears) and found some. So I made a modified attempt:

curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; OS X Leopard 9A365; en) KHTML” http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http%3A//www.hopelessgeek.com/rss.xml > foo.html There's more »

Setting an Icon From the CLI

Adam Knight — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:30:28 -0600

Starting Different Applications Depending on Power Status

Adam Knight — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Chrooting SSH and SFTP

Adam Knight — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:30:25 -0600

Un-podcastifying Tracks

JC — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:46:50 -0500

Adding a Persistant Icon to an Application

Adam Knight — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:52:27 -0500

Creating an Open Handler and Custom Icons for Hand-Rolled Packages

Adam Knight — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:20:35 -0500

Setting the ZeroConf Name

Adam Knight — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:03:52 -0600

Disabling the Brightness/Sound Keys

Adam Knight — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:46:23 -0600