December 2010

smbpasswd GUI

I recently came across an application I wrote a while back in AppleScript to slap a basic GUI on OS X terminal program smbpasswd.  This utility is basically the BSD version of dscl found on Linux – and interfaces with Microsoft Active Directory.  Here’s the man page as of Snow Leopard:

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Google Books Fuller Full Screen

Ever since I started using FireFox 4 Beta I’ve been wanting back my favorite plug-ins.  Fortunately Firebug has their 1.7a that’s compatible, so that’s good, but GreaseMonkey seems to have been lacking (even with their nightlies).  That’s too bad, but then I came across Scriptish by Erik Vold.  It’s a great light-weight fork that cuts [...]

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Moodle 1.9 Melbourne Theme

While at the moodlemoot au 2010 this summer I was suffering from some severe jetlag. So, inspired by how intrinsically cool the city of Melbourne seemed to be – I set out on an all-night code sprint to whip up a theme in honor of the moot and the city. And Melbourne was born, it [...]

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