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Random Nostalgia

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When I were a lad …

  • A first class postage stamp cost 10p and we had two reliable postal deliveries a day
  • Computer games ran in 1KB of memory
  • Modems connected at 0.3Kbps
  • London telephone numbers had 9 digits
  • You left a spare front door key under the door mat
  • There were 3 television channels
  • Daytime TV was ‘Pebble Mill at One’
  • TV closed down at night
  • Remote controls were attached by wires
  • Only trucks had diesel engines
  • The First Division was the top tier of English football – not the third
  • Snickers were called Marathon and Starburst were called Opal Fruits
  • Minis were mini

Tell EvoCam to start recording

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A quick AppleScript which can be used in EvoCam to tell it to start recording on startup (useful in unattended recording setups):

tell application "EvoCam"
 start recording webcam 1
end tell
 

Set this in EvoCam > Options > AppleScript Settings… > When opening EvoCam

Automount Drobo FS shares in Mac OS X

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To configure Mac OS X to automatically mount a Drobo FS share whenever it is accessed:

Add the following line to /etc/auto_master:

/Volumes/Drobo                      auto_drobo

Then (as root) create the file /etc/auto_drobo and add your mounts to it, e.g.

Share1 -fstype=smbfs ://username1:password1@192.168.1.2/Share1
Share2 -fstype=smbfs ://username2:password2@192.168.1.2/Share2

Use the following command to start the automount:

/usr/sbin/automount -vc

Now whenever the volume is accessed it will be automatically mounted.

You might also want to change the default automount timeout setting which is in /etc/autofs.conf.