James C. McDonald's Blog

Installed pyblosxom v1.3.2

Upgraded the blog to use pyblosxom version 1.3.2.

No significant changes were required, although I did update the config file (config.py) and the cgi driver script (pyblosxom.cgi) to the v1.3.2 versions.

pyblosxom v1.3RC1 Announced

Just as I predicted , pyblosxom 1.3RC1 announced.

Installed pyblosxom v1.2.1

I finally got around to installing pyblosxom version 1.2.1.

I'm sure this guarantees that version 1.3 will be released tomrrow. :-)

Simple periodic maintenance script

Because my macs are not always awake at the scheduled times for the periodic cron system maintenance tasks, I've started to run them from a script every week or so.

The simple script I use is shown below:

#!/bin/bash
set -v
# Running the daily,weekly and monthly periodic scripts
sudo periodic daily && sudo periodic weekly && sudo periodic monthly
# Updating pre-binding
sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
# Repair disk permissions
sudo diskutil repairPermissions /

Simple script to tell the Mail.app to prefer text over HTML

Run the following script when the Mail.app is not running to set the preference to plain text over HTML.

#!/bin/bash
# false is the default for mail.app
#defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool false
set -v
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool true

Simple script to check the battery

Below is a simple script I use to check the battery on my laptop.

#!/bin/bash
ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo

Installed pyblosxom v0.9.1

After playing around with blosxom a bit for my blog use I decided to switch to pyblosxom because it is written in python.

Although it doesn't seem to allow as much customization and the flavors seem to be simpler, it looks good enough for my simple needs.