Thoughts and Notes.

[Usability] Open Selected File in TextMate (Cmd + Shift + .)

2011-08-28T14:52:00.001+03:00

1) Open Automator

2) Create New Service

3) Repeat the screen shot below

4) Save it.

5) Go to "Keyboard Shortcuts" and assign "Cmd+Shift+." hot key to the action

Save push key/certificate. Restore them after restoring iPhone from backup.

2011-08-19T00:02:00.004+03:00

How to keep you push key/cert after restoring backup.

During backing up iPhone push cert is also backed up, so if you got them bad you will be with them all the time. So, here's steps to solve that problem and got push notifications working again!

This instruction for advanced users, so if anybody needs more info please let me know.

1) Restore iPhone 4.3.3 firmware
2) Jailbreak iPhone with jailbreakme.com
3) Add repo http://cmdshft.ipwn.me/apt/
4) Install nimble
5) Install MobileTerminal (google for it)
6) Go to Terminal
7) Run:
su (pwd: 'alpine') if you haven't changed it
cd /private/var/Keychains
./nimble
8) Setup SSH on iPhone (google for that too)
9) [if you are mac user] run
scp root@[iphone-ip-address]:/private/var/Keychains/* /tmp
10) Backup your keys/certs
push-cert.bin
push-key.bin
youtube-cert.bin
youtube-key.bin

11) I recommend to install AppSync 4+
12) Restore your iPhone back-up
13) [here your push cert got bad from the back-up]
Check push notifications with iPusher (can be found on AppStore)

If the push notifications does not work, follow next steps
14) Install 'inject' from cmdshft.ipwn.me
15) Go to terminal and run
su
cd /private/var/Keychains
./inject

You original cert should be back.

16) Reboot iPhone!

Ask me a question if you have troubles.

Big Thanks 'cmdshft'.

[Ref]
http://modblog101.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/how-to-backup-your-push-certificates/
http://www.cmdshft.ipwn.me/blog/?p=496

Installous downloads are at

2010-11-05T21:18:00.000+02:00

/private/var/mobile/Documents/Installous/Downloads
You can use iPhone Explorer to transfer them to your Mac/PC.

iPhone - subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-11-02T23:37:00.000+02:00

Found solution here
http://azitech.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/subprocess-post-installation-script-returned-error-exit-status-1/

Removed bad .postinst under /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and afterwards cydia removed the package successfully.

found at
http://azitech.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/subprocess-post-installation-script-returned-error-exit-status-1/

[iPad] Lock Weather plugin for LockInfo does not work

2010-11-02T22:22:00.001+02:00

If you installed Lock Weather plugin for LockInfo on your iPad and the weather is not shown.

To fix the issue:

1. Go to http://www.edg3.co.uk/snippets/weather-location-codes/ find your country, city code (mine is UPXX0016)

2. Go to http://yahoo.weather.com find to your city and copy from the URL WOEID value (i.e. http://weather.yahoo.com/ukraine/kiev-city-municipality/kiev-924938/ is 924938)

3. Then you should override default settings in "Settings > LockInfo > Plugins > Lock Weather > Weather Settings > Advanced". Set Yahoo! Weather code to "LocationCode|WOEID". (i.e. UPXX0016|924938).

That's it! It should work.

bokeh shape-O-mat

2010-02-21T01:25:00.001+02:00

bokeh shape-O-mat
Originally uploaded by rontronic

Amazing technic of creating your own bokeh.

Few more links
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh
http://www.diyphotography.net/the-best-ways-to-create-your-own-bokeh

Speeding up pointer on vm!

2009-09-23T20:35:00.003+03:00

I got used to work on my work machine even at home.
I am remote desktop to it and work.

Everything was great till I started using virtual machines.

So it looks next home -> remote desktop to work machine -> vmware.

Even I have good broadband connection mouse pointer on vm with winxp is really slow, when it works fine on win2k3. Afterwards I figured out that it's because of winxp has pointer shadow turned on!
I turned it off and now it works like a charm.

Quicksilver Tweet Script + Growl

2009-03-01T06:48:00.006+02:00

using terms from application "Quicksilver"

on process text tweet

set wordcount to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of tweet & " | wc -c"

set wordcount to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of wordcount & " | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'"

if wordcount as integer > 140 then

my growlRegister()

growlNotify("Tweet too long", "(" & wordcount & ") characters")

return nothing

end if

set results to postTweet(tweet)

my growlRegister()

growlNotify("Tweet Sent", tweet)

-- Uncomment (remove "--") if you want to integrate Skype mood text updates

-- tell application "System Events"

-- if exists process "Skype" then

-- set commandText to "SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT " & tweet

-- tell application "Skype"

-- send command commandText script name "Tweet"

-- end tell

-- end if

-- end tell

--tell application "System Events"

-- if exists process "iChat" then

-- tell application "iChat"

-- set the status message to tweet

-- end tell

-- end if

--end tell

end process text

end using terms from

using terms from application "GrowlHelperApp"

-- Register Growl

on growlRegister()

tell application "GrowlHelperApp"

register as application "Tweet" all notifications {"Alert"} default notifications {"Alert"} icon of application "Twitterrific.app"

end tell

end growlRegister

-- Notify using Growl

-- Example: growlNotify("This is an Alert","This is a test of the Growl Alert System")

on growlNotify(grrTitle, grrDescription)

tell application "GrowlHelperApp"

set tweetapp to my getHome() & "/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/Tweet.scpt"

notify with name "Alert" title grrTitle description grrDescription application name "Tweet" icon of application tweetapp with application

end tell

end growlNotify

end using terms from

on postTweet(message)

set twitter_key_account to do shell script "security -q find-internet-password -gs twitter.com 2>&1 | grep '\"acct\"' | sed -e 's/.*\"\$.*\$\"/\\1/'"

set twitter_key_pass to do shell script "security -q find-internet-password -gs twitter.com 2>&1 | grep 'password:' | sed -e 's/password: \"//' -e 's/\"//'"

set twitter_login to quoted form of (twitter_key_account & ":" & twitter_key_pass)

set twitter_status to quoted form of ("status=" & message)

set results to do shell script "curl --user " & twitter_login & " --data-binary " & twitter_status & " http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"

--display dialog results

return results

end postTweet

on getHome()

tell application "Finder"

set userdir to name of home

set basedir to name of folder of home

return "/" & basedir & "/" & userdir

end tell

end getHome

on run

postTweet("Testing Quicksilver twitter script...")

--my growlRegister()

--growlNotify("Tweet Sent", "Test")

--getHome()

end run

Port forwarding, proxy, anonymous proxy for mac [links]

2009-01-18T12:02:00.005+02:00

http://www.privoxy.org - Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

http://www.torproject.org - Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

http://portforward.com/ - PortForward.com is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall. Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger.

Our Routers section offers detailed walkthroughs on how to setup port forwarding. These how to guides make it easy to setup your router or firewall for any application you may need.

Routers can be tough to configure. Our Help and FAQ page gives general tips and definitions. These can help if you can't connect to your router, or are unsure of some of the terms on this page. If you do not know exactly what you are doing or are having problems, Start Here.

Try our Common Ports ports page if you need to know what ports are required by a commonly used software application. We will be adding more to this section soon! If you would like to submit ports used by a common software application, please send that information to us using our Requests page.

http://homepage.mac.com/adg/SquidMan/index.html - Squid ported to Mac

http://dresstosurvive.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/anonymizing-proxy-for-os-x/ - Anonymous Proxy for Mac OS X

http://www.mikeash.com/?page=ssh_socks.html - Using ssh as a SOCKS proxy on Mac OS X

How to take care of your eyes?

2009-01-18T08:09:00.004+02:00

Just read nice article about eyes http://tinyurl.com/9shkge and I would like to share it.

And as many computer users I spend almost whole day looking at a monitor and that's definitely affects my eyes. Yeah! It took many years for me to realize that dumb sitting before a computer will affect my vision ability.

Here's some facts from the article:

Eyes dry out. If you blink 15 times a minute under normal circumstances, then you do so only five-to-six times while sitting before a computer monitor. The reduced rate of blinking decreases 60 per cent of the oil secretion that lubricates our eyes, thus, increasing evaporation from the eye surface. Result: irritation, itching and discomfort.

The remedy: make a conscious effort to blink
Avoid using contact lenses while working on computers as they tend to increase the dryness of the eyes.
The 20-20-20 rule. After every 20 minutes of work, look 20 feet away from the computer screen for 20 seconds. This will also give your eyes a chance to refocus.
Maintain distance. Sit approximately 22-28 inch away from it. The center of the computer screen should be 4-5 inches below your eye level.
Check your posture from time to time to ensure the above.
Use adjustable chairs so that you can maintain good posture by adjusting it to your needs.

http://www.10gbfreehost.com is a SCAM

2009-01-18T05:45:00.001+02:00

F#$k, I fucked up again. I hate scammers!!!

Remote installation of new linux kernel

2008-12-26T14:19:00.006+02:00

Installation of new linux kernel is a tough task and it's missing impossible if you are trying to upgrade kernel remotely.
Well but as movie proved missing impossible can be done. So, let's try to make it and even if we will get failed with a new kernel we would be able to rollback to our old proper version of kernel.

Requirements: Debian Linux, GRUB, new kernel, kernel-package package

Step 1 - Download new kernel


sh:kernel-src$ cd <kernel source>
sh:kernel-src$ make config # or make menuconfig (let's assume that you know how to configure your kernel)
sh:kernel-src$ sudo make-kpkg clean #

Step 2 - Create an image of new kernel


sh:/usr/linux/src$ sudo make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

Step 3 - Install new kernel


sh:/usr/linux/src$ dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.27.6_2.6.27.6-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Once you run that command you GRUB (see requirements section) configuration files will be updated along with kernel installation. Great! Let's move forward.

Step 4 - Configure grub to boot from new kernel only once. If new kernel goes into panic mode machine will be rebooted and next time GRUB boots from old kernel. GRUB saves our lives and we could try everything from scratch till we get new properly working kernel.

Firstly, modify GRUB configuration file like shown in example below
```
     default saved        # This is important!!!
     timeout 10
     
     title the old kernel
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /old_kernel
     savedefault
     
     title the new kernel
     root (hd0,0)
     kernel /new_kernel
     savedefault 0         # This is important!!!
```
Then you must run
```
sh:~root$ sudo grub-reboot 1
```
This will tell GRUB to set next default boot entry to new kernel but once you have booted from new kernel 'savedefault 0' tells GRUB to set default booting entry to the old kernel and next time your machine will be running the old kernel. (Probably in case of your kernel hangs a machine you will need to ask anyone push reset button on the server or do this remotely if you can.)

PS: Honestly you even can remove 'savedefault' from both entries and use only 'grub-reboot 1' as it tells GRUB to run only once from entry number 1. All rest time it will be booted from default/first/saved entry in the list.

Debugging. I don't know how to debug any error occurred on start up level. So if anyone knows how to do this could you please let me know. At least your machine will up in any case. This is the most important!.

So, we are done here. Hope it prevents you from additional troubles with non-bootable machine.
Good luck!

Links:

building kernel /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz

configuring grub to boot once http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-once_002donly.html#Booting-once_002donly

Replace bug URLs like http://example.com/view.php?id=12345 to [BUG-12345] in all SVN log entries

2008-12-25T04:29:00.013+02:00

If you have lots of people working with your repository, not all of them can listen and follow rules.
It's a rule to put a bug id to VCS log message.
But some of people likes to put URLs instead. I hate people like this.
Still my anger can't fix their mistakes, so here's simple shell script that gets all SVN log messages from your repository and replaces in them entries like http://example.com/view.php?id=12345 to [BUZ-12345].

Now you logs become smaller, more readable and you can configure lets say FishEye linkers to convert BUG-12345 ids to a clickable links!

VCS RULE 1: NEVER PUT URLS OR STUPID THINGS INTO LOG MESSAGES. USE COMMON PATTERN FOR IDENTIFICATION BUG IDs.

WARN: Tested under Mac only.

#!/bin/sh

for rev in $( svn log -q $SVN_URL/ | grep "^r[0-9]\+\ " | awk '{ print $1; }' );
do
    msg_original=$(svn propget svn:log --revprop -$rev)
    echo "$msg_original" | egrep "http.*php\?" > /dev/null && {
        msg=$( echo "$msg_original" | sed "s/http.*php?id=\([0-9]*\)/\[BZ\-\1\]/" | tr "\n" " " )
        echo $msg > /tmp/msg
        svn propset svn:log --revprop -$rev -F /tmp/msg
        echo "$rev - $msg"
    }
done

Strange world

2008-12-25T04:22:00.005+02:00

I've been asked to remove the company what I work for. As I work for them not directly and looks like I can't expose that kind of information. So I feel like communism is still there. Thus I work for company XXX right now.

Adium could not connect to GTalk "Invalid username or password."

2008-12-20T01:35:00.005+02:00

Just got into problem that Adium could not connect to gtalk. It fails with an error "Invalid username or password". I tried to provide right password few times, but the error was still there. Googling didn't help, so I just tried to remove "GTalk.YOUREMAIL@ADDRESS" from keychain (Keychain Access app) and tried to connect again. Hooray! It worked! Looks like something got broken with keychains... Probably it happened when I applied MacOSX 10.5.6 update.

Nice way to encode email address

2008-11-23T06:47:00.003+02:00

You can email me to $(echo bu.leunwm.il@com | tr b.@uwn ka.xg@)

Nice :) ? Isn't it?

PS: I coded my mail by echo <here was my mail> | tr kxga@. buw.n@

What's that? NOSEND="1"

2008-11-23T05:11:00.003+02:00

Yesterday I stumbled on interesting html attribute NOSEND.

IDEA shows it as non-html attribute and could be deleted.

After a bit of googling I figured out that that attribute is only used by MS Outlook.
As images can be a part of email message or regular hyperlink to an external image MA decides how to handle it.
When you are forwarding/replying to a message regular MA leaves it as is. When MS Outlook tries to rewrite them somehow, add as an attachment or a part of mail message. So it copies your images and rewrites URL, when probably you don't Outlook doing this. That's fucking strange, so generally speaking if you do not want to include images into the message (as a part of it) add attribute NOSEND="1", otherwise it will be bundled them as attachments to your forwarded/replied email message.

As usual MS came with bizarre behavior.... Don't use Outlook and forget about this.

Create a certificate signed by your own CA for testing purposes

2008-11-22T13:46:00.013+02:00

As usual my posts I will be short and tight.
I am going to show you how to

Create root CA Root
CA allows us to sign certificates.
Create certification request
Create certificate signed with the root CA
Allow establish secure connection between a browser and a server
Install certificate to keystore
Install root CA to a browser as trust store
No invalid certificate messages anymore
Registration keystore in JBoss

1. How to create root CA?

2. Creating certification request using keytool from JDK

bash-3.2$ keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore testing.keystore -dname "cn=mydomain.com.ua, ou=Development, o=Mycompany, l=Kiev, s=Kiev, c=UA"
Enter keystore password: changeme
Enter key password for
(RETURN if same as keystore password): changeme

bash-3.2$ keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -file testing-certreq.csr -keystore testing.keystore
Enter keystore password: changeme

3. Creating certificate signed with our root CA

3.1 Exporting certificates from keychain store

4. Installing signed certificated to local keystore

bash-3.2$ keytool -import -alias root -keystore testing.keystore -trustcacerts -file Certificates.cer
Enter keystore password: changeme
Owner: EMAILADDRESS=xxxxx@mail.com, L=Kiev, C=UA, ST=Kiev, OU=Development, O=Mycompany, CN=Oleksii Shurubura's Certificate Authority
Issuer: EMAILADDRESS=xxxxx@mail.com, L=Kiev, C=UA, ST=Kiev, OU=Development, O=Mycompany, CN=Oleksii Shurubura's Certificate Authority
Serial number: 1
Valid from: Fri Nov 14 00:29:14 CST 2008 until: Sat Nov 14 00:29:14 CST 2009
Certificate fingerprints:
MD5: C4:A4:D9:D3:68:AE:02:74:81:AE:08:75:2C:9A:E5:57
SHA1: 9B:4A:22:33:92:53:C7:9C:96:C9:CE:81:5A:66:24:44:CB:0D:CB:79
Trust this certificate? [no]: yes
Certificate was added to keystore

bash-3.2$ keytool -import -alias tomcat -keystore testing.keystore -trustcacerts -file mycompany.com.ua.cer
Enter keystore password: changeme
Certificate reply was installed in keystore

5. Installing root CA to Firefox

6. Register keystore in JBoss

Simpliest wat to create your own Certification Authority under Mac OS X in pictures

2008-11-22T11:18:00.015+02:00

Run Keychain Access go to the menu and follow the screens till CA will not be created.

AppleScript: splitting up track name ...

2008-11-12T09:06:00.001+02:00

As one of the most "unhappy" iTunes Apple users I often need to update song attributes.

So if you have track title like this <Artist>-<Track name> you can use that simple apple script that extracts Artist and Track name and saves them to according fields in iTunes.

on split(delimiter, someText)

set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delimiter

set output to text items of someText

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs

return output

end split

tell application "iTunes"

set sel to selection

repeat with a from 1 to count sel

set a_track to item a of sel

set {a_artist, a_song} to my split("-", name of a_track)

set a_track's album artist to a_artist

set a_track's name to a_song

end repeat

end tell

Fun Video

2008-06-07T10:46:00.000+03:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q

Converting MP3 tags to Unicode

2008-02-24T11:41:00.002+02:00

Download id3conv 0.2.1
and execute next command from the root of folder containing mp3 files incl. subfolders (for russian):
find . -name *.mp3 -exec java -jar ~/bin/id3iconv-0.2.1.jar -e cp1251 {} \;

Leopard's iSync does not recognize Nokia 6670

2008-02-13T00:05:00.003+02:00

Leopard's iSync does not recognize my Nokia 6670.

I did googling, as usual, and found nice trick.

Please add to /Applications/iSync/Contents/PlugIns/

ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/

PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/MetaClasses.plist

<key>com.nokia.6670b</key>
<dict>
   <key>Identification</key>
   <dict>
       <key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
       <string>Nokia+Nokia 6670b</string>
   </dict>
   <key>InheritsFrom</key>
   <array>
       <string>com.nokia.serie60v2.0</string>
   </array>
   <key>Services</key>
   <array>
       <dict>
           <key>ServiceName</key>
           <string>com.apple.model</string>
           <key>ServiceProperties</key>
           <dict>
              <key>ModelName</key>
              <string>6670b</string>
              <key>PhoneIcon</key>
              <string>NOK6670.tiff</string>
           </dict>
       </dict>
   </array>
</dict>

How to change the Timezone in Debian Linux

2008-01-05T02:14:00.000+02:00

Source http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux

Logged in as root, check which timezone your machine is currently using by executing `date`. You'll see something like Mon 17 Jan 2005 12:15:08 PM PST, PST in this case is the current timezone.
Change to the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo here you will find a list of time zone regions. Choose the most appropriate region, if you live in Europe or the US this directory is the "America" directory.
If you wish, backup the previous timezone configuration by copying it to a different location. Such as mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old
Create a symbolic link from the appropiate timezone to /etc/localtime. Example:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
If you have the utility rdate, update the current system time by executing
/usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
or set it manually using date utility.
Set the ZONE entry in the file /etc/timezone file (e.g. "Europe/Moscow")
Set the hardware clock by executing:
/sbin/hwclock --systohc

Thoughts and Notes.

[Usability] Open Selected File in TextMate (Cmd + Shift + .)

Save push key/certificate. Restore them after restoring iPhone from backup.

Installous downloads are at

iPhone - subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[iPad] Lock Weather plugin for LockInfo does not work

bokeh shape-O-mat

Speeding up pointer on vm!

Quicksilver Tweet Script + Growl

Port forwarding, proxy, anonymous proxy for mac [links]

How to take care of your eyes?

http://www.10gbfreehost.com is a SCAM

Remote installation of new linux kernel

Replace bug URLs like http://example.com/view.php?id=12345 to [BUG-12345] in all SVN log entries

Strange world

Adium could not connect to GTalk "Invalid username or password."

Nice way to encode email address

What's that? NOSEND="1"

Create a certificate signed by your own CA for testing purposes

Read more... on blogspot like lj-cut on livejournal.com

Simpliest wat to create your own Certification Authority under Mac OS X in pictures

AppleScript: splitting up track name ...

Fun Video

Converting MP3 tags to Unicode

Leopard's iSync does not recognize Nokia 6670

How to change the Timezone in Debian Linux