News and updates to Gavin Brock’s code
Just a quick note to let you know that Websaver should now work on 10.6 64bit. The recompiled version is available here:
As you can see, I have moved the source to Google Code, and so any issues can be reported on the issues page.
Cheesy disclaimer: I don’t have a 10.6 64bit capable machine for testing :-( . Please let me know if it works.
Bug Fixes:
New Feature:
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We’re back!
First I would like to thank you all for your support! I believe that your emails, posts and comments, regarding yesterdays blog post, made a difference. It’s great to hear from you – it’s what makes writing software for fun, erm.. fun!
I just received a detailed message from the Director of Products at Ordnance Survey, apologising for the communication regarding the disabling of the service. He explained, that this is not a “derived data issue“, but rather to do with the licenses:
EDIT 2009/05/19: The service has been re-enabled – see this post…
What’s happened?
After running my KML based Openspace Overlay for Google Earth service for the best part of a year, the Ordnance Survey has decided that the service is in conflict with the OpenSpace Developer Agreement, and I have had my API key disabled.
Although I have requested clarification on exactly what aspect of the agreement I am in violation of, or how I could make changes to to the service so I can comply with agreement, they have chosen that they would rather block the it. I will give full details of my conversation with the OS below.
What can you do about it?
Over the year, many of you have sent me great feedback of how you are using this service for many things including hiking, biking and even in schools. I have really appreciated this! I believe this service has benefitted the community, and that is why I have worked on it and hosted it (at my cost).
I believe the the Ordnance Surveys actions are unfair and unnecessary. If you feel similarly, here are some things you might like to do:
Finally, if you do follow up on this, and have time, drop a comment at the end of this post to let me know!
New features:
Bug fixes:
Available at: http://code.google.com/p/csshx/downloads/detail?name=csshX-0.61.tgz
Enjoy…
I just uploaded csshX v0.60.
Main new feature is draggable bounds changing. This allows you to resize or move your window set after it has been opened. Bounds changing is accessible using Ctrl-a b. Once you select the new area for the windows to use, press Enter to accept it.
* Note, dragging between Spaces on 10.5 does not work. I cannot find a way to ask a window which space it has been moved to, nor tell another window to move to a space.
You can also now hide your window (rather than minimise them) with Ctrl-a h. This is much faster than minimise, and I find Ctrl-a h, Apple-m is a great way to clear my csshX screens away temporarily. Window hiding has also allowed me to improve the retiling performance.
Other changes are minor, including one fix to the nasty infinite loop bug when using enable mode selection.
As always, please report any issues you may come across, preferably on the issues page.
Thanks to some great publicity from Mac OS X Hints, I have received lots of feedback and bug reports.
Number one issue has been multi-monitor support, and problems related to it. This is now working.
To use it, add a –screen n to your command line, where n is the screen number. It will default to screen zero if omitted.
This was actually a nasty problem since there is no quick AppleScript solution, and the only way to get screen counts and sizes is by calling the AppKit frameworks. This is Objective-C only and since csshX is written in perl, I had to mess with the PerlObjCBridge (or Foundation.pm as it’s known) to get the NSFrame. To make matters worse, NSFrame is not even Objective C, rather it’s a pure C struct. In the end, I use NSValue to give me a string “description” of the data, and parse this with regex’s (differenet for 10.4 and 10.5 naturally!).
Other changes:
The package is available at:
For some unknown reason, my OS OpenSpace tile limit has suddenly dropped form 30,000 to 1,000. As you can imagine, this pretty much cripples my Google Earth overlay.
Thanks to everyone for pointing it out – it’s great to hear that people are actually using this!!
I’m looking into it, and will update this post when fixed…
One of the all time great sysadmin tools is Cluster SSH. It allows you to open up ssh sessions on multiple machines and send commands to them all through a common master window. It’s a perl script that uses xTerms and Tk.
My problem was that OS-X has a bit half-hearted X11 support and I always wanted a version that used Terminal.app. Finally after messing with some Applescript the other day, I realised it is possible to do.
So I have created csshX – my OS-X homage to cssh.
