I thought some of you might find these useful, so I’m posting them here:

Code

Usage

./casechecker_recursive.rb /path/to/directory

PS

Never format your Mac as case-sensitive, you’ll have major compatibility issues. Trust me.

Many people have long forgotton about the Services menu in OS X, which will take the currently selected text in any application – and do stuff with it. We’re going to be taking advantage of the Look Up in Dictionary action.

First, open up your Keyboard & Mouse preferences, and select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.

Next you’re going to click the little plus button, to add your own keyboard shortcut. A dialog will appear; leave Application set to All Applications, set the Menu Title to Look Up in Dictionary (note: make sure it’s exactly that), and I set my Keyboard Shortcut to Control + Shift + Command + D.

That’s it! You’re done! Now from any application you can just select/hi-light a word and hit your shortcut, and it will automatically find it in the dictionary for you.

(Note: I am aware that there is already a “Look up in dictionary” shortcut in the system, however this shortcut does not work, for me at least.)

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When the exploit was discovered in early 2006, Dan (one of the founders of compsci.ca) promptly notified the developers of the LanSchool application. LanSchool disregarded his discovery, and told Dan that his school could take action against him in the form of suspension, detention, &c… As such, after a period of time, a review of LanSchool including a proof-of-concept exploit was published online at compsci.ca.

Fast forward to 2008, LanSchool has released a new version of their self-titled software; exploit fixed. However, they have now decided to take legal action against compsci.ca. Their claims and demands are as follows:

Claims

1. “unauthorized use of its trade-mark” — even though they have no registered trademark in Canada.
2. “unauthorized use of its logo” — using their logo to refer to the company should fall under fair use.
3. “In other postings you offer detailed advice about how to use “LanSchooled” to breach the security inherent in our client’s software.” — but earlier in the document they stated “you identified and made LanSchool aware of a potential security flaw in LanSchool version 6.5 (which does not exist in the current version 7.1).”
4. “you describe our client’s software as a “trojan horse type program that is used by many school boards in Ontario to spy on their students as well as controlling one or all computers in a given lab … LanSchool has many flaws in its design, and thus many security holes….”” — this would amount to defamation only if the statement was untrue. Though considering that LanSchool is designed to allow remote access to the system, to monitor and log activity, I feel like that is an accurate description. Furthermore LanSchool’s #1 FAQ question is :
   

   My Anti-Virus software is reporting LanSchool as a virus, what should I do?

   Suggesting that the LanSchool software indeed acts in a manner similar enough to a malicious program, to trigger some Anti-Virus applications. The flaws in the design were demonstrated by the proof-of-concept application in question, and were true at the time of publication.

5. “It is evident that you have intentionally set out on a course to harm our client’s software and business.” — absolutely not. The original review explicitly states that “This page detials a proof of conspect expolite of the lanschool program. CompSci.ca and Hacker Dan do not support, condone or recomend the use of it in real life”. Once again, the company has been made aware of the issue well before the publication.

Demands

1. Removal of the critical review of their software.
2. Destruction of author’s intellectual property, in the form of the proof-of-concept application.
3. Not making use of any of LanSchool’s software in the future.

Support

Your new iPhone data plans are absolutely ridiculous. Virtually every other country offering the iPhone includes unlimited data at no extra premium. The fact that the data bandwidth offered for each iPhone plan is so low coupled with the latest 3G capabilities effectively renders the device useless. The estimated usage scenarios per plan are not realistic and do not factor in secondary data usage options (i.e. 3G applications, iTunes Store, &c…). Not to mention next to no minutes and SMS, and lack of a rollover minutes capability. It’s as if you are barely offering a service, and simply charging for iPhone ownership. You are locking Canadians in to what seem to be third world plans from nearly a decade ago. It’s not fair to your loyal customers who are being forced to pay these exorbitant prices.

It’s truly a sad day for Canadians and tech enthusiasts, knowing we have been abandoned by the one company that really could have made a difference.

Sincerely,

Gianni Chiappetta

Update: Rogers reply after the break, and yes they spelled my last name wrong.

Dear Gianni Chiapetta,

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, we appreciate your use of online customer service.

In your recent email, you have informed us that you are unhappy with the data plans for the upcoming iPhone 3G.

We are sorry to hear that our iPhone 3G voice and data packages are less than you were expecting.  We would like to point out that they do offer more data and airtime than our traditional packages and they also come with the added features of bonus text messages and visual voicemail.

However, we appreciate that this release has come with expectations from our customers.  At Rogers we are always aiming to improve service to better meet the needs of our customers and we appreciate  your feedback. Your comments will be passed along for further review and consideration.

Thank you for contacting Rogers.

For future email correspondence with respect to this e-mail, please quote reference number [redacted]

Regards,
Heather N.
Rogers Online Customer Service
http://www.rogers.com

Now you can access all of these pages right from your bookmark toolbar with my handy bookmarklet.

Install

Just drag the link below to your bookmark toolbar.

Usage

Click the newly created link and type the class you’re looking for in the popup. It’ll even auto camelize your words, for example “match data” will be turned into “MatchData“.

Bookmarklet

Ruby RDoc

Give it a try!

There is now a myriad of options available to share a request or recommendation, be it through Twitter, Facebook, email, your blog, &c..:

You can now easily thank people for their recommendations and leave specialised feedback for them:

You can also share requests and recommendations right from your GigPark feed:

These are only a few new features, can you spot anything else? Stay tuned for some amazing new ways to promote your service on GigPark.

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ENHANCE!

ENHANCE!

That’s right, you saw correctly. This Payphone has 2 speed dial buttons. How convenient.

• Delete yesterday’s log files
• Open several terminals
• Update my code form the subversion repository
• Start autotest, memcached, mongrel, and various other servers
• Open my project in my editor

This can become very tedious when you have to repeat it every day, but thankfully it can be simplified into a 1-click process with Apple’s Automator. First things first, I need to delete my old logs. To do that I use the Get Specified Finder Items action and pass it to the Move Finder Items to Trash action:

Next I need to update my working copy from the main repository. You might even have a couple projects that need updating. Again I use Get Specified Finder Items, but this time I pass it to a Run Shell Script action where I use subversion to update each of them:

At this point I’d like to open up Terminal.app, create a few tabs, and start my servers. Before we can use an Automator action, we need to grab a copy of terminit from ELC Technologies. Terminit is a cool little ruby script that lets us initialize Terminal.app tabs and commands to run in each tab. This is my terminit config file:

# Initialize Terminal
- tab1:
  - cd ~/Projects/rails/gigparkapp
  - memcached &
  - script/server
- tab2:
  - cd ~/Projects/rails/gigparkapp
  - rake facebook:tunnel:start
- tab3:
  - cd ~/Projects/rails/gigparkapp
  - autotest
- tab4:
  - cd ~/Projects/rails/gigparkapp

To execute our terminit config we need to use the Run Shell Script action again:

Finally I need to open up my Textmate project so I can begin coding. I grab the Texmate project file with the Get Specified Finder Items action then pass it to the Open Finder Items action:

Of course you can always throw in a few actions to spice things up a bit:

Or:

All you have to do now is save your worlflow as an application and you’re done. I put my new application right in my dock so I can always access it quickly.

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Password must be 6 numbers and/or letters in length. All I can say is they just made my brute-forcer exponentially faster.

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