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[SchneiderMan]

put it in the log in items in your user acct settings in your system preferences

Thanks, is this correct?

 

[Forsaken]

Thanks, is this correct?

Yessir.

I got really pissed when I saw that GT was not starting up then I realized that I had accidentally nicked it off of that list whilst getting Growl to start at launch.

 

[Chooch]

Im having trouble with the daily quote script...

curl http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/feeds/rssfeed.aspx?type=quote | grep description | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba

Can someone help? Thanks

 

[DazBrowne]

Im having trouble with the daily quote script...

curl http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/feeds/rssfeed.aspx?type=quote | grep description | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba

Can someone help? Thanks

Bad link ..

 

[Chooch]

Bad link ..

Yeah thats what I was thinking....I was wondering if there might be a new link..??..

 

[Forsaken]

Encarta got shut down, y'know.

 

[scotty96LSC]

Encarta got shut down, y'know.

Yep Oct. 31. News Link

 

[Chartreux]

Thanks for the script - works great.

How do i set a limit to the amount of content that is displayed?

The GeekTool window will limit the output automatically... resize the window to get more or less lines.
But you can also filter the output through 'head' to limit the number of displayed lines (10 in this example):

<script-command> | head -10

Or:

<script-command> | sed 10q

By the way, I squeezed the rss-script into a oneliner:

ruby -r rss -e 'RSS::Parser.parse("https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml").items.each {|item| puts "#{item.date.strftime("%H:%M")}  #{item.title}"}'

Gives:

19:31  Apple Looking to Revive 'Think Different' Advertising Campaign?
19:11  Apple Rolls Out Customizable Digital iTunes Gift Cards Via Facebook
18:00  AT&T Addressing Network Performance in Manhattan and San Francisco, High-Bandwidth Users
17:38  Ustream Offers Live Video Streaming for the iPhone
15:25  Analyst: Apple Prepping February Tablet Production Ramp Ahead of March or April Release
15:02  Apple Reportedly Preparing to Seed Builds of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to Developers
21:02  'Dragon Dictation' Brings Voice Transcription to the iPhone [Updated]
16:43  Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta
...

 

[RogersDA]

Yeah thats what I was thinking....I was wondering if there might be a new link..??..

There is this post with one QOTD. That shows a lot of quotes.

I updated that code for Encyclopaedia Britannica - but that site does not have the quoter's name.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rss'

rss = RSS::Parser.parse 'http://www.britannica.com/feeds/qotd.rss'

puts rss.channel.title,""

rss.items.each do |item|
  puts "#{item.description.sub(/<.*/m,'').strip} - #{item.title}"
end

 

[Chooch]

There is this post with one QOTD. That shows a lot of quotes.

I updated that code for Encyclopaedia Britannica - but that site does not have the quoter's name.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rss'

rss = RSS::Parser.parse 'http://www.britannica.com/feeds/qotd.rss'

puts rss.channel.title,""

rss.items.each do |item|
  puts "#{item.description.sub(/<.*/m,'').strip} - #{item.title}"
end

Thanks

 

[jbanger]

some good ones here (working "top" in 10.6.2 etc)

 

[RogersDA]

some good ones here (working "top" in 10.6.2 etc)

Thanks for that site (though some of those don't work too well).

 

[partyBoy]

Thanks, is this correct?

you dont trust me ?...i thought we were a mac family?

 

[fr3ak]

The GeekTool window will limit the output automatically... resize the window to get more or less lines.
But you can also filter the output through 'head' to limit the number of displayed lines (10 in this example):

<script-command> | head -10

Or:

<script-command> | sed 10q

By the way, I squeezed the rss-script into a oneliner:

ruby -r rss -e 'RSS::Parser.parse("https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml").items.each {|item| puts "#{item.date.strftime("%H:%M")}  #{item.title}"}'

Gives:

19:31  Apple Looking to Revive 'Think Different' Advertising Campaign?
19:11  Apple Rolls Out Customizable Digital iTunes Gift Cards Via Facebook
18:00  AT&T Addressing Network Performance in Manhattan and San Francisco, High-Bandwidth Users
17:38  Ustream Offers Live Video Streaming for the iPhone
15:25  Analyst: Apple Prepping February Tablet Production Ramp Ahead of March or April Release
15:02  Apple Reportedly Preparing to Seed Builds of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to Developers
21:02  'Dragon Dictation' Brings Voice Transcription to the iPhone [Updated]
16:43  Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta
...

You're the man!, thx alot!

I'm using your one line of rss code now, works like a charm

 

[Aranince]

Nuttin new, but I like it

 

[RogersDA]

EDIT: The below script works, but only shows --meaningful-- results when uptime > 1 day.

Better uptime script

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'date'

(now, _, dd, _, _, dhm) = `uptime`.split(/ +|,/)
(dd, dh, dm) = dd.to_i, *dhm.split(':').map { |x| x.to_i }
puts "Uptime -------> #{dd} days, #{dh} hours, #{dm} minutes"

dh += (dm / 60.0)
dd += (dh / 24.0)

last = DateTime.parse(now) - dd

puts "Last Reboot --> #{last.day} #{Date::ABBR_MONTHNAMES[last.mon]} #{last.year} at #{last.hour}:#{last.min}"

This gives an output like:
Uptime -------> 1 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes
Last Reboot --> 9 Dec 2009 at 11:24

 

[raltenbach]

Thanks to everyone here! This has been a great lesson in very simple code writing. Here's what I managed to put together with all of your help.

 

[NJRonbo]

Holy S!

That is incredible. Excellent and highly
imaginative work.

Bravo!

 

[raltenbach]

Does anyone have a Geektool script for Battery percentage that works with Snow Leopard?

Thank you.

Here's what I use (gives JUST the percentage):

#!/bin/bash

asbreg=`ioreg -rc "AppleSmartBattery"`

maxcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/MaxCapacity/{print $3}'`;
curcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/CurrentCapacity/{print $3}'`;

prcnt=`echo "scale=2; 100*$curcap/$maxcap" | bc`;

printf "%1.0f%%" ${prcnt};

#EOF

Not very elegant, but it gets the job done.

 

[Saul89]

Here's what I use (gives JUST the percentage):

#!/bin/bash

asbreg=`ioreg -rc "AppleSmartBattery"`

maxcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/MaxCapacity/{print $3}'`;
curcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/CurrentCapacity/{print $3}'`;

prcnt=`echo "scale=2; 100*$curcap/$maxcap" | bc`;

printf "%1.0f%%" ${prcnt};

#EOF

Not very elegant, but it gets the job done.

Perfect! Does exactly what I need it to. Thank you!!

 

[partyBoy]

Thanks to everyone here! This has been a great lesson in very simple code writing. Here's what I managed to put together with all of your help.

looks nice but who are they ?

 

[raltenbach]

It's a scan from the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic. (one of my many guilty pleasures)

 

[SchneiderMan]

you dont trust me ?...i thought we were a mac family?

No lol i do, just wanted to make sure i chose the right path to the app. Thanks again

 

[Captain Planet]

What's the font used in this picture?

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=189445&d=1250860503

 

[raltenbach]

This is my other attempt at a comic inspired desktop. Most of the text is dynamic, including the dialog bubble "Afraid to die on a (insert day of week)?". The "I'd been up for..." part is my system's uptime. The rest is pretty obvious stuff. I fear that this damn program is going to eat up WAAAAY to much of my time.