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Archive for January, 2009

A screensaver to send your display to sleep.

I poked around a bit looking for something that did this, and couldn’t find anything, apart from some sample code using a private API to send the display to sleep, so I whacked that into a screeensaver.
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/misc-sw/files/SleepSaver.saver.zip
This does use a private API and thus could do anything. No warranties, may destroy your machine, etc etc [...]

Awesome Daemons and Agents TechNote

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html
This is really just going here so I can find it again as I can never remember what keywords to search with to find it and I often need to refer to it.
AAAAA+++ Excellent TechNote Would Read Again kthxbye

Macworld 2009: Puppet on Mac OS X

Macworld 2009: Python for System Administration

Presentation here: