shell-scripts Udemy Course Open For Real This Time I published my Udemy course where you can learn shell scripting in three hours yesterday, but some technical troubles meant people could not enroll. If you're interested still, you can
shell-scripts Learn Shell Scripting In 3 Hours UPDATE 3: It's working now. UPDATE 2: Just wait a while if you want to enroll. Udemy support is doing things. UPDATE: Udemy kidney punched me and you may not
shell-scripts RFP: Design A Simple But Fun Game That Makes Calls To My API I have thought about this type of project for a long time and was wondering if anyone out there already has or wants to create a game in Construct 3,
sampo Introducing Sampo: A Bash API Server For Running Shell Scripts v1.0 of Sampo is an MVP. Written in bash, it is a shell script API server you can run directly in your terminal or via container on Kubernetes. It's
shell-scripts Batch Download All Of GarageBand's Loops, Jingles, And Sound Effects GarageBand has a lot of cool loops and sound effects. If you are a systems administrator, you might be tasked with deploying these sounds and loops so you don’t need to download it onto each computer when GarageBand opens up. Or maybe you
shell-scripts Quickly Download Or Install Common Apps Without Going To The Website While helping friends and family with their computers, I often need to download an app they don’t have or update it to the latest version–something I
hazel How I Went Paperless And Clutter-free For $32 Ever since I discovered Dropbox, I felt weighed down by the clutter of physical documents. I use it for all of my digital documents. After a while, physical documents and
automator Make Animated GIFs In OS X With A Right-click UPDATE 2020-05-23: I updated the post with instructions and screenshots for newer versions of macOS. The biggest thing to note is to remove the "Get selected Finder items" task. Create
shell-scripts Twin Cities Mac Admins » Meetup notes – April 23, 2015 Featured Presentation Jacob Salmela with Hopkins High School provided our feature presentation Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting). Take a look at Jabob’s website and his GitHub repository. You’ll find he’s solved plenty of issues with scripting. He introduced us to GeekTool,
shell-scripts Shell Scripting Presentation at JAMF HQ [MSP Mac Admins] I will be presenting Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting) at JAMF HQ at 5:00 on April 23rd. There is still time to register if you are interested in attending;
shell-scripts Bash Script: Fix Paused Printers In OS X You need an administrator password to un-pause a printer in OS X. It is possible to add a user to the lpadmin group. sudo dseditgroup -n /Local/Default -o edit
shell-scripts Twin Cities Mac Admins Presentation: Under Cover Of Shell (Scripting) On April 23 at JAMF headquarters in downtown Minneapolis, I will be presenting at the April MSP Mac Admins Meetup. My presentation will cover real-life examples of how scripting can
shell-scripts Bash Script: Set Favorite Servers In "Connect To..." Menu The Connect To… menu (Command+K) lets you quickly connect to a server using different protocols. If you are deploying these settings to a bunch of computers, it can be done quickly using a simple bash script. Just replace or add whatever servers
shell-scripts Bash Script: Reset Root Volume Name To Macintosh HD In true Borg fashion, I like to keep the devices I manage consistent. This includes the volume name: Macintosh HD. I have a simple shell script that will restore the
shell-scripts Bash Script: Remove An SSID From The Preferred Network List I use this script to remove the Guest network from staff computers. It can be adapted for any network. Just modify the variable to be the SSID you want to
shell-scripts Prevent Access To Certain Wi-Fi Network SSIDs Via Bash Script In enterprise environments, there is often an open guest network and a secured enterprise network. Often, you do not want users to connect to the guest network because it is throttled down and does not grant access to organizational network resources. Below is a
shell-scripts Fix (Error code -36) on OS X with dot_clean The error stems from the way OS X stores files. If you have ever seen Apple files on a PC, you may have seen files beginning with a ._ (dot-underscore). While this problem was seen on Snow Leopard, I recently saw this issue after trying
shell-scripts List Open Files By User The command lsof lists open files. However, even if you use the -u option to show files open by just the user, there is a lot of files used in the background that you don’t really know about. I wanted to parse this
shell-scripts Apple Remote Desktop Not Finding Computers? Try This Apple Remote Desktop has become flaky over the last few versions of OS X. Apple isn’t really working on it anymore. It is still a great tool, but often,
hazel Batch Rotate Photo Files With Hazel and sips If you have a ton of photos that are all facing the wrong direction and don’t want to do them individually, you can use Hazel to automatically go through
shell-scripts Generate Random Number With Bash Script I use this script to generate random numbers. This is useful if something needs a random time delay (for network performance issues) or choosing a random selection from a case statement. #!/bin/bash RANGE=90 number=$RANDOM let "number %=$RANGE" echo "$number is a
hazel Reduce And Resize Dropbox Camera Uploads Automatically With Hazel I usually use my iPhone to take pictures for my Website and then upload them via the Dropbox app so they appear on my computer. This is a nice feature,
shell-scripts OS X: Bulk Rename Computers That Are Being Repurposed Whenever I get a bunch of new computers and phase out some old ones, I typically want them to have the same name. Since I do not want duplicates, I just prepend (or append) “Repurpose-” to the computer name. Then, I can
shell-scripts OS X: Set All Computers Names Script I use this simple bash script to set all four of the computer names so they are consistent. There are differences between the computer names, but I typically want them all the same. The only one I set differently is the NetBIOS name because