Wednesday, March 03, 2004

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O'Reilly Network: The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 3 [Feb. 24, 2004]

O'Reilly Network: The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 3 [Feb. 24, 2004]

Links at the bottom connect to other articles in this series. Print and memorize.

Universal Buslink PB7-20 PhotoBank 7 in 1 Multi-Card Reader + 20GB USB 1.1 Hard Drive

Epinions:Universal Buslink PB7-20 PhotoBank 7 in 1 Multi-Card Reader + 20GB USB 1.1 Hard Drive
Interesting product for traveling. Compare to iPod photobank ...

Finding disk space usage in OS X

Mac OS X Panther (10.3.2): "Re: Disappearing Disk Space in 10.3.2
John Palkovic
I just read some of the discussion of disappearing disk space. Here's what I do to produce a list, sorted in decreasing order, of disk space consumed by every file on my / drive. I open a Terminal.app, become root with 'sudo su -' and then
root# cd /
root# du -ax |sort 0 -rn > /tmp/du.txt
Then view /tmp/du.txt with TextEdit (open /tmp/du.txt), or 'more /tmp/du.txt' or your favorite editor. This can be applied to other drive if multiple drives are present, just cd into /Volumes/whatever and run the 'du -ax |sort 0 -rn'."

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Very nice review of OS X shells: Bash and tcsh

bash on Mac OS X by David Miller -- "In the migration from Jaguar to Panther, one of the lesser discussed changes has been the switch from tcsh to bash as the default shell (for new accounts). In this article, David Miller delves into affected areas, such as aliases and environment variables, to help you make the transition."

OS X - create archive -- zips the file

macosxhints - Create Finder-equivalent zip archives from the Terminal
I absolutely love the 'Create Archive of ...' functionality in Panther, found in the Finder's File menu or in the contextual menu when you control-click on an item in the Finder. It's much faster than Stuffit, and it doesn't require me to install any third-party software. Sometimes I need to be able to create archives from the command line, and I wondered how I could get the same functionality of the 'Create Archive of ...' function in the terminal. tar and gzip are out because they don't preserve resource forks and HFS metadata ...

I've been using Panther for months. I noticed the "archive" option on a context menu but never bothered to figure out what it meant. Turns out it zips files including OS X metadata. Holy cow.