from the desk of stinkpot

let’s say you want to print all of the pdf files in a directory quickly.  printing from the command line in these situations can be handy.  here’s how to do it:  >> lpstat -a   will give you a list of all of the installed printer names. >> lp -d “my_printer_name” ~/my_folder/*.pdf  will send out all of [...]

while trying to commit an omnigraffle file to an SVN repository, i received the following error message:  A         bootstraps.graffle A         bootstraps.graffle/data.plist ‘vn: Invalid control character ’0x0d’ in path ‘bootstraps.graffle/Icon    the solution:  $ svn propedit svn:ignore Icon   try again to add the OmniGraffle files and things should be [...]

it’s a bit of a pain to print to a CUPS print server from OS X.  here’s how i got it working (much cribbed from macosxhints). open the printer setup utility and create a printer.  give it any old address; let’s call it 192.168.1.1. Open a webbrowser and go to http://127.0.0.1:631/. This is a front [...]

upgrading from mac os x tiger to leopard had me hanging on a blue screen of death.  i found the following terrific solution on the apple forums, courtesy of chris mccullough.  ultimately, it turned out that an old installation of shapeshifter was causing my problems.  to remove it: 1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Apple-S [...]

to fix: click on utilities in the menu bar and then “terminal.” then type (omitting the dollar signs): $ df -k $ df -k now, quit the terminal and your drive should be present! thanks to the apple discussion forums for that tip!

to add a midpoint halfway through a line in omnigraffle, just right-click on the line and select “add-midpoint.”

if you’ve tried to install sqlite3 via macports, only to have failed spectacularly, dust yourself off and try again. i found that although the first attempt at installation crashed, the second one surprisingly went off without a hitch: >> port -dv clean sqlite3 >> port -dv install sqlite3

it’s unfortunate, but exposureplot doesn’t run for the mac.  don’t fear though — if you’d like to find the distribution of focal lengths you use in your photos, all you need to do is the following: 1)  install jhead.  if you’ve got http://www.macports.org/ installed,  it’s as easy as: >> sudo port install jhead 2)   [...]

i was completely befuddled the other day when i suddenly lost the ability to reject multiple selected photos in apple’s aperture.  hitting “9″ was only rejecting one of my selected images at a time. the solution: hit “s” or turn off “primary only” under the edit menu tab.

if you’re getting either the error: “Storable object version 2.13 does not match $Storable::VERSION 2.15″ or “Fink could not load the perl Storable module, which is required in order to keep a cache of the package index. You should install the fink “storable-pm586″ package to enable this functionality,” you’ll need to upgrade or install the [...]