Above we see to simply first reference the name of the folder on your local machine to back up and then username@server address colon folder on server to back up to. And that's it. Simple and very effective. Thanks Mozy.

The second recent hacked together script I made was a basic way of batch printing. Duke has a system called E-Print, which runs basically by Line Printer Daemon (LPD) to a specific address. Any network printer set up like this. The other key requirement is that I have set my short name on my Mac to my NetID because this short name is the username that is sent through to LPD. If you have this, I create a simple AppleScript application that takes either all selected items or all files in a folder and prints them separately and in duplex with the lpr command. This script is below.

Or you can download the application here. Place this inside your applications directory, and then in Leopard you can drag it to the toolbar of Finder. I believe you also need to make sure you have the LPD printer set to your default printer. The, you can always easily batch print.

Note: You can also in command line use lp but this will combine all of the documents printed into one item on the print queue, which has its disadvantages in the Duke e-Print system. Also, I need to thank Henrik Nyh whose "Open in Textmate" script I use and worked off of for this.

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do shell script ("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P \"Default User\" -no-remote &> /dev/null &")

Of course you can make two scripts for the two different applications and two different profiles as outline in the above link. However, make sure to add the "&> /dev/null &" to the end so as to write the PID to a null file /dev/null and then to keep the process running in the background. I hope this helps, and, as always, let me know if you have any tips. Thanks.

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using terms from application "Quicksilver"
	on process text ThisClipping
		if appIsRunning("Adium") then
			tell application "Adium"
				set the status type of the first account to away
				set the status message of the first account to ThisClipping
			end tell
		end if
		if appIsRunning("iChat") then
			tell application "iChat"
				set status message to ThisClipping
				set status to away
			end tell
		end if
 
	end process text
end using terms from
 
on appIsRunning(appName)
	tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appIsRunning

And the updated Available file is:

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if appIsRunning("iChat") then
	tell application "iChat"
		set status to available
		set status message to ""
	end tell
end if
if appIsRunning("Adium") then
	tell application "Adium" to go available
end if
 
on appIsRunning(appName)
	tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName
end appIsRunning

Enjoy and please leave comments.

As you can read in the directions on that page, first you must open ScriptEditor and copy in the following code:

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using terms from application "Quicksilver"
	on process text ThisClipping
 
		tell application "Adium"
			set the status type of the first account to away
			set the status message of the first account to ThisClipping
		end tell
 
	end process text
end using terms from

This code will set your away message and the following code will set you back to available.

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tell application "Adium" to go available

With each script as an individual file, save the file to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/

After each script is saved, restart Quicksilver and enter in the name of the script (whatever you saved it as) and press enter.