Category Archives: terminal

quicksilver, curl, applescript, proxy-config, twitter

August 5, 2008 – 7:11 pm

This explains how to use Quicksilver to send posts to Twitter from within a firewall. I made this my little lunch project today. First, let's start with the basics. If you set up your work proxy server in your network config, there is not really any way to easily retrieve those settings. Let's say you [...]

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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 [...]

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Bizarre Clipboard Problem

January 9, 2008 – 11:47 am

This has happened to me a couple of times using TextMate (probably has occurred
elsewhere without consequences that I noticed). Every once in a long while, I will not be able to copy text into TextMate. I do this on a regular basis to analyze XML and JSON responses from the server for the application I [...]

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