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Google now available on IPv6

Go Google!  Google is now available on IPv6.  If you have a true IPv6 address you can see it here:

ipv6.google.com.

From the Google blog:

“While IPv4 provides about four billion IP addresses — not enough to assign one to every one of Earth’s more than six billion inhabitants — IPv6 provides enough address space to assign almost three million networks to every person on the planet.”

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Peggle

Oh that naughty Peggle has nabbed another unsuspecting vicitim:

PF: If you know of any interesting apps you would recommend, I surely would look at them. 
DB: well, have you played peggle? omg, very addicting
PF: No. But I am going to now. lol
DB: we warned- very addicting http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle
PF: Is it shareware or for purchase?
DB: shareware, 1 hr trial
DB: y’ll burn through the hour and be panting with your credit card in hand to purchase
PF: Nice. I will have to give it a try. lol I need something like that.

He’s hooked and doesn’t even know how hooked he’ll be.

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Removing Leopard download quarantine

MacOSX Leopard tags files downloaded from the web with a special metadata bit.  This bit is later referenced to warn about running downloaded apps and scripts. Even archived files maintain this tag through the compression/decompress process.

I needed to update the firmware on my Canon PowerShot SD1000 camera and couldn’t get the camera to recognize the file.  Turns out the com.apple.quarantine xattribute was set.  To fix:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *.FIR

xattr does not have a man entry.  Use:

xattr -h

I found most of my information on this helpful post.

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Open Apple Remote Desktop selection in SSH

John C. Welch posted a handy AppleScript which grabs selected addresses from Apple Remote Desktop and opens SSH sessions in the terminal for each one.  Hard to believe this isn’t built into ARD.  I’d previously used a hard coded AppleScript to open up these sessions.  Having them opened from the live scan list is very handy!

I took out the hard coded username in the SSH string and added an activate command to the terminal to bring the windows to the front.

set theSSHList to {}
tell application “Remote Desktop”
set theComputers to the selection
repeat with x in theComputers
set the end of theSSHList to Internet address of x
end repeat
end tell

tell application “Terminal”
activate
repeat with x in theSSHList
do script “ssh “ & (contents of x)
end repeat
end tell

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Examining & editing Time Machine backups

A modified version of the GrandPerspective disk sizing utility has surfaced which understands the file structure of Time Machine backups.

With this tool, you can scan Time Machine backups and immediately discern how much space it is really using.  Also, you can look for large files taking up unnecessary space.

To actually recover space, enter Time Machine and delete the unnecessary backups of your large files using the gear menubar item’s: “Delete Backup” and “Delete All Backups Of” commands.

via Tidbits

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