Monthly Archives: March 2008

Copy and continue copying large files over file sharing

March 20, 2008 – 11:05 am

In my experience, there is often a flaky slow server at work that contains vital files on it. This is fine when you need to retrieve files that are small, but what happens when you need to copy a large file? Most of the time these servers don’t support ftp protocol and if you are [...]

By ryan | Posted in geek, technology, terminal | Comments (1)

Leaving the Mysterious World Behind

March 18, 2008 – 9:10 pm

Farewell to futurist and generally odd fellow Arthur C. Clarke who died today at the age of 90. Also best known for “inventing” the telecommunications satellite and his novel 2001, the movie of which he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, I knew him best in my youth for his television series named “Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious [...]

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Applescript Show Track in Finder

March 11, 2008 – 1:44 pm

Space has been tight lately on my laptop and I’ve been too lazy to thoroughly go through and clean up. I keep regular backups, however, so I wrote this script so that when I hear a track that I don’t care so much about in iTunes on random, I can go to the folder and [...]

By ryan | Posted in applescript, coding, downloadable, music, plasticware, quicksilver | Comments (0)