Archive for August, 2004

printing a directory list

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

One thing that OS X is lacking that I used all of the time in OS 9 is the print window command in the finder. There are a few ways to get around this limitation. One way is to open the window you want a print out of. Grab the icon at the top middle [...]

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softwareupdate

Monday, August 16th, 2004

Apple has provided a command line utility to match the Aqua software update. This can be scripted to run and also can be run remotely using ssh.
I ran the softwareupdate command by typing in softwareupdate -i -r for install required. The discovery of this command line command is really rather nifty. Next time you need [...]

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