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The AppleScript equivalent of rubber sheets for Outlook
Here’s an AppleScript to deal with Outlook getting itchy if there’s email in the outbox and no Internet connection to send it over. Sucks to have your battery die on a plane over something stupid like that. — if I can’t get the Internet, and Outlook wants to send email, then it behaves badly.– since…
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Imperfect Product
Software vendor people have all sorts of different backgrounds… while lawyers and architects might have pretty similar educations, software people could have been educated in liberal arts or pre-med or hard knocks instead of STEM or EECS. Furthermore, they might have more experience in selling or more experience in servicing, or no customer-facing experience at…
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Notification Silencer (was AppleScript ain’t so bad)
Sick of getting inappropriate popups during screen-sharing sessions? This took about 30 minutes to hack up after I figured out where to look. It could still be a lot better of course, but it does the job. UPDATE: resurrected in 2021: — Run via crontab: 0,1,29,30,31,59 8-18 * * 1,2,3,4,5 osascript ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~ScriptEditor2/Documents/meeting-test.scpt > /Users/jcoates/Library/Logs/meeting-test.log…
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my virtualized server performance stinks!
Another recurring issue from the last ten years or so… Short answer: You need to work with the SAN admins to get more storage IOPS, and you won’t be able to give them reliable numbers from where you’re sitting because SANs and VM’s will both lie to the guest OS. You will be able to…
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The Interview Question
There are many things you’re after in an interview, after the all-important chemistry question. However, I’ve found, forgotten, and remembered a question that works well to uncover a lot. If you’re hiring for a sales engineer, services engineer, senior customer support, or architect level position, there’s a cluster of fundamentally critical abilities that we’ll call…
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