Comments on: A Growl Hack to Remind You to Unplug Your Charger http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/ Performance and Test Automation Experts Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:08:44 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: pc spiele http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-168 pc spiele Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:59:30 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-168 Hi.. Thank you for sharing such a nice information for scripting work of charger. I will surely bookmark it for future use. Good Work! Keep it up! This Scripting language is very useful for me. I would like to appreciate you. Hi..
Thank you for sharing such a nice information for scripting work of charger. I will surely bookmark it for future use. Good Work! Keep it up! This Scripting language is very useful for me. I would like to appreciate you.

]]> By: Tim http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Tim Tue, 06 May 2008 02:52:00 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-167 No probs, thanks for the improvements. Probably because u are on different hardware to me. Original script works fine on macbookpro, but have since changed to ur more resilient masterpiece ... cheers Tim No probs, thanks for the improvements. Probably because u are on different hardware to me. Original script works fine on macbookpro, but have since changed to ur more resilient masterpiece …

cheers
Tim

]]> By: Lantrix http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Lantrix Tue, 06 May 2008 02:46:57 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-166 Yeah OK I used cron too. Could not be stuffed finding where to put the plist. Yeah OK I used cron too. Could not be stuffed finding where to put the plist.

]]> By: Lantrix http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Lantrix Tue, 06 May 2008 02:45:28 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-165 Using MacOS 10.5.2 this script failed for me. the awks you did on ioreg came back with the pipe character. Also the MaxCapacity grep matched 3 lines. Instead of being reliant on the result being on a specific column, I used sed to look for the value after the equal sign. I also changed the grep on the MaxCapacity line to egrep and match a whole word, thereby eliminating the other matches (AbsoluteMaxCapacity). Here are the first two lines changed to suit: <pre lang="shell"> set current_capacity to do shell script "/usr/sbin/ioreg -w0 -l | grep -E 'CurrentCapacity' |sed 's/.*= \\(.*$\\)/\\1/'" set max_capacity to do shell script "/usr/sbin/ioreg -w0 -l | egrep -wE 'MaxCapacity' |sed 's/.*= \\(.*$\\)/\\1/'" </pre> You will see I had to escape the sed backslashes for the applescript. Using MacOS 10.5.2 this script failed for me. the awks you did on ioreg came back with the pipe character. Also the MaxCapacity grep matched 3 lines.

Instead of being reliant on the result being on a specific column, I used sed to look for the value after the equal sign. I also changed the grep on the MaxCapacity line to egrep and match a whole word, thereby eliminating the other matches (AbsoluteMaxCapacity). Here are the first two lines changed to suit:

set current_capacity to do shell script "/usr/sbin/ioreg -w0 -l | grep -E 'CurrentCapacity' |sed 's/.*= \\(.*$\\)/\\1/'"
set max_capacity to do shell script "/usr/sbin/ioreg -w0 -l | egrep -wE 'MaxCapacity' |sed 's/.*= \\(.*$\\)/\\1/'"

You will see I had to escape the sed backslashes for the applescript.

]]> By: Tim http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Tim Tue, 06 May 2008 02:35:25 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-164 So do I really want to type all this: <pre lang="xml"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple. com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.apple.periodic-daily</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/sbin/periodic</string> <string>daily</string> </array> <key>LowPriorityIO</key> <true/> <key>Nice</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>StartCalendarInterval</key> <dict> <key>Hour</key> <integer>3</integer> <key>Minute</key> <integer>15</integer> </dict> </dict> </plist> </pre> Just to replace 1 line in cron? Nah. Deprecated, but still supported ... So do I really want to type all this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.periodic-daily</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/periodic</string>
<string>daily</string>
</array>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>Nice</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Just to replace 1 line in cron?
Nah. Deprecated, but still supported …

]]> By: Lantrix http://altentee.com/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Lantrix Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:24 +0000 http://90kts.com/blog/2008/a-growl-hack-to-remind-you-to-unplug-your-charger/#comment-163 I know you are a hard core Unix Wannabe, so cron was your first thought - but since this is a Mac Post I thought I would let you know that cron was deprecated for launchd from 10.4 onwards. See http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html I know you are a hard core Unix Wannabe, so cron was your first thought – but since this is a Mac Post I thought I would let you know that cron was deprecated for launchd from 10.4 onwards. See http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html

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