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 Today was the training day of Unity3D's Unite 2012

To avoid getting segmentation faults on a synology device you have to use -d sat and the full path to the command:
(mine is a DS411s)

/usr/syno/bin/smartctl -d sat -l selftest /dev/sdd

Hmm... 
usually you can remove Applications by dragging it to the Trash. But what about pkg files?

I found a blog entry how to remove them:

List identifiers [ID]:

pkgutil --pkgs | grep [name]

Remove package content:

sudo pkgutil --unlink [ID]

Show installed files (files modified by script aren't listed - afaik):

pkgutil --files [ID]

Forget about the package (only do this once you removed all it's content):

sudo pkgutil --forget [ID]

Finally I installed iFolder on a Debian squeeze box.

Advantages over Dropbox:

• you can host your files
• only your server limits the amount of space
• You can have more the one root folder (no need to use sym- / hardlinks)

Disadvantages over Dropbox:

• it requires mono to run (only a problem on Linux and OSX)

You can read more about iFolder here.

Just did again some graphing with rrd.
Thinking (googling) some metrics to graph I found some interesting articles:

• some nice rrd examples: link
• List of Cacti Scripts and Templates: link (I did not try them out yet!)
• 20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know: link
• article about graphing spend cpu ticks: link
• opennms graph gallery: link
• tool to create color gradient steps: link (mentioned in the link above)
• pmacct could be used to get protocols out of network traffic: link (will try it, once I have more time)

And here are some pics:



(as this machine is idleing it graphs only between 0 and 5 %)

Btw: am using catcti to graph and some custom code to push metrics to cacti. Will post about it, once it is on github.

I just hat the issues that my external WD drive showed no partition to mount.
It contained a timemachine backup.

Luckily I found testdisk which could restore the partition table.
Here are some screen shots:

I like dropbox and I use it to sync stuff around my different boxes.
Btw. If you don't have dropbox installed, please use me as a referral.

Today I found an open source project sponsored by Novell called iFolder.

There is also a howto install on debian.

Hope I will find some time to play with it, at it allows me to be my own host of my files and still have the ease of "Dropbox" alike behavior.

Finally I found the time to test some of the new features of the upcoming Unity3d.
So far I am very impressed.

My favorite top 3 features are:

1. Unified Editor
   
   One Editor to build for Standalone, Web, iPhone, Android, XBox 360 and PS3
2. Working Debugger (MonoDevelop)
   
   What happens on runtime? Yeah: step over the code. Comes with build in "sync MonoDevelop project" button.
3. Versioning
   I could not test it with my current project. I fear that it's already grown to much to proper set up subversion as VCS afterwards.

If I would have to give a note: it would be 10 out of 10 points so far.

I finished my modifications to shiftit. The modification I made are small.
It supports now the resize window to 1024 x max. height.

It looks like this:

A super helper to find the virtual key code for the letter "C" was Peter Maurer's Key Codes.app.

Here is an example apple script which can resize a window to 1024 px wide and use the maximum screen height:

-- script based on:
-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273242/is-there-anything-like-winsplit-revolution-for-mac-os-x#2977827

-- hardcoded screen resolution:
property screenWidth : 1280
property screenHeight : 800
-- read screen resolution:
-- comment out next 2 line to speed up the script 
-- if you use always the same screen hight
set screenWidth to (do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Resolution | awk '{print $2}'")
set screenHeight to (do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Resolution | awk '{print $4}'")

tell application "System Events"
	set _everyProcess to every process
	repeat with n from 1 to count of _everyProcess
		set _frontMost to frontmost of item n of _everyProcess
		if _frontMost is true then set _frontMostApp to process n
	end repeat
	
	set _windowOne to window 1 of _frontMostApp
	set position of _windowOne to {0, 0}
	set size of _windowOne to {1024, screenHeight}
end tell

It works from launchbar with "run in Background" or from the AppleScript Menu Bar for the last top most window.