http://software.jonandnic.com Hacks, scripts and ideas for the refined geek. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:28:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have moved back and forth between wanting to sell my original an iPhone and upgrade to a 3G, and just wanting to stay where I am. Originally, Rogers data prices in Canada were too high, so I was going to stay put. Then they announced good pricing, so I listed ... http://software.jonandnic.com/review/brief-reflections-on-a-hacked-20-iphone-first-gen As a follow up to my previous post, here's how to do the same thing, but from a web browser (say, on your iPhone) -- it assumes you've already written a shell script, as discussed earlier. Configure Apache to run PHP on your Mac (these instructions are for Leopard, but similar ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/using-php-and-a-shell-script-to-restart-an-appletv-remotely-via-the-web Both my media serving devices (a NAS, and a Mac Mini) are using TwonkyVision Media Server to share media using uPnP. It works great, but as I mentioned earlier, I needed a script to make it start back up in the morning. Unfortunately, I've found that my AppleTV freaks out a ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/using-applescript-and-a-shell-script-to-restart-an-appletv-remotely Derived from this forum post that solved the problem for me. Sometimes (most of the time) the limited configuration for TwonkyVision that the MiniNAS config pages gives you isn't enough. Trying to go to http://yournas:9000 results in the red error page. Apparently LaCie thinks they know better than their users. To enable ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/configuring-twonkyvision-on-a-lacie-mininas So last night, after 4 passes, I finally got the AppleTV hacked to my satisfaction. I had to give up on a few features in the name of keeping things stable and easy for the family to use, but it does everything I really wanted it to, and runs smoothly... This ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/fourth-times-the-charm In our house, a Mac Mini serves at the content library and retreival machine. It runs a Torrent client, iTunes, and TVShows to collect and organize all our media. At night it runs a number of scheduled tasks to keep things orderly and fresh, and when its done (at about ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/restart-twonkymedia-after-scheduled-sleep Useful bash commands: sudo the whole session: sudo bash mount file system as read/write: mount -uw / remove a whole directory recursively (be careful!): rm -r /folder modify Hosts file to prevent the AppleTV from reaching the Update server... sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts' Don't bother trying to get AFP ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/scattered-notes-on-hacking-apple-tv-20-aka-take-two Just for kicks, I dusted off the old OS/2 Warp discs... OS/2 was supposed to be the next DOS, developed in co-operation between Microsoft and IBM. Microsoft dropped their end of the deal when Windows 3.0 gained popularity. For awhile, and because they'd shared APIs, IBM was able to run Windows ... http://software.jonandnic.com/article/virtualizing-os2-warp Going back to the beginning, and learning Project Builder, Interface Builder and ObjectiveC on NextStep. Can you believe this is the technology that NeXT had the same year Windows 3.1 came out? And its the same stuff that's used to build Mac and iPhone apps today... Click for a bigger picture. In ... http://software.jonandnic.com/article/learning-to-develop-for-the-mac-historically I've been hankering to learn more about the origins of OS X, so I figured the best place to start would be the OS at its core -- NextStep (later named OpenStep.) When Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple, he set out to create a new company that would deliver elite ... http://software.jonandnic.com/hack/installing-nextstep-33-on-vmware-6