Category Archives: Shell Games & Scripts

Make Minute Adjustments in Your Mac’s ScreenSaver Time

Posted on 2013 May 2, Thursday by JamesIsIn

Sometimes you want more granularity than a drop-down menu supplies.  I found myself in this situation with start times for the screen saver on my Mac at work. I use the initiation of ScreenSaver as a means to lock my … Continue reading →

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How to Middle-Click (Properly) in the Mac BASh

Posted on 2012 November 12, Monday by JamesIsIn

I have been using a three-button scroll mouse ever since I started using Linux systems back in 1999. Don’t get me wrong, my previous Windows systems did technically have three-button scroll mice, but I wasn’t really using that third button. … Continue reading →

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For net use, Persistence Is Persistent

Posted on 2012 October 18, Thursday by JamesIsIn

We’ve been seeing a certain issue arise for random users in the company where I’m doing support currently. It would run something like this. Someone would leave to work from home or on a business trip, they would restart their … Continue reading →

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Improved Recursive Prepending Script

Posted on 2012 October 13, Saturday by JamesIsIn

Not so long ago I wrote a script for prepending disc numbers before song numbers according to folder hierarchies.  You can find the original script here: Recursive Prepending Script The original script was designed specifically for working with FLAC files. … Continue reading →

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Telnet and Modern Windows Systems

Posted on 2011 September 10, Saturday by JamesIsIn

I have tried to set up port forwarding on my home router for ssh.  I am having some trouble connecting through the usual port 22 and wanted to test if anything could communicate across port 22.  Thus I issued the … Continue reading →

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Pin Cygwin Like a Medal

Posted on 2011 September 7, Wednesday by JamesIsIn

Well I’m working in a Windows world yet again.  Of course this means I’m installing Cygwin so I have BASh and Perl and other Unix goodies at my fingertips. I guess someone at Microsoft has been reading my blog because … Continue reading →

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A New Script for Skipping Tracks

Posted on 2011 August 1, Monday by JamesIsIn

A while back I wrote a simple script for skipping tracks (and a couple of other things) for Rhythmbox.  Now that Ubuntu is moving to Banshee as their default media library application I have tossed together a new script for … Continue reading →

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Using find and rm in Conjunction

Posted on 2011 July 26, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

I downloaded a bunch of music or pictures or somesuch beyond memory, and in each folder the generous sharer included two or three dozen rich text files (.rtf) with some advertising for something about which I couldn’t have cared less. … Continue reading →

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Malleable Renaming Script

Posted on 2011 April 15, Friday by JamesIsIn

I often get a pile of files where the original maker of those files used some naming scheme which, like spoiled milk, offends my nostrils.  You may call me anal if you’d like, but it prompted me to write this … Continue reading →

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Recursive Prepending Script

Posted on 2011 April 1, Friday by JamesIsIn

As you may recall I prefer to prepend my track names with the album number in the case of multiple disc albums (box sets, double-albums, &c).  I have some rather large (30 CD) sets and am lazy didn’t want to … Continue reading →

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