As i was really impressed by Crayon Physics and even more by the video for Crayon Physics Deluxe (in development) i made my first little test-map for that game. It was a quick work (about 10 minutes after realizing how easy the editor works) including a handmade background.

How it looks:

You can get the game here

You can get my first map fid01 here

Any suggestions, feedback or similar ?

There are several ways to combine php-scripts with cron.

Today i realized that using CURL is an option to.

So basicly you could just do the following in commandline / Teminal.app:

curl http://your.server.ip.or.name/your-php-script-file.php

If that works for you, just continue with a manual cron-entry or using cronnix to add the cron-job

Read there:

http://www.who-sucks.com/tech/15-reasons-why-apples-iphone-sucks

Apple docs for that topic here

In short:

Resetting PRAM and NVRAM

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.

another information source about Dock Pinning can be found here

Basiclly its:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;
killall Dock

Turn off menubar transparency on 10.5:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer EnvironmentVariables -dict CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE 1

and then reboot (logging out isn’t enough).

About ack:

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.

Found that via DaringFireball.net

Quote from the project page:

Top 10 reasons to use ack instead of grep.

1. ack is pure Perl, so it runs on Windows just fine.
2. The standalone version uses no non-standard modules, so you can put it in your ~/bin without fear.
3. Searches recursively through directories by default, while ignoring .svn, CVS and other VCS directories.
   • Which would you rather type?
     $ grep pattern $(find . | grep -v .svn)
     $ ack pattern
4. ack ignores most of the crap you don’t want to search
   • VCS directories
   • blib, the Perl build directory
   • backup files like foo~ and #foo#
   • binary files, core dumps, etc
5. Ignoring .svn directories means that ack is faster than grep for searching through trees.
6. Lets you specify file types to search, as in –perl or –nohtml.
   • Which would you rather type?
     $ grep pattern $(find . -name ‘*.pl’ -or -name ‘*.pm’ -or -name ‘*.pod’ | grep -v .svn)
     $ ack –perl pattern

   Note that ack’s –perl also checks the shebang lines of files without suffixes, which the find command will not.

7. File-filtering capabilities usable without searching with ack -f. This lets you create lists of files of a given type.
   $ ack -f –perl > all-perl-files
8. Color highlighting of search results.
9. Uses real Perl regular expressions, not a GNU subset.
10. Allows you to specify output using Perl’s special variables
    • Example: ack ‘(Mr|Mr?s)\. (Smith|Jones)’ –output=’$&’
11. Many command-line switches are the same as in GNU grep:
    -w does word-only searching
    -c shows counts per file of matches
    -l gives the filename instead of matching lines
    etc.
12. Command name is 25% fewer characters to type! Save days of free-time! Heck, it’s 50% shorter compared to grep -r.

Quote from Heise Security (english version)

In March 2006 Apple defused a security problem in Apple Mail that made it possible to inject disguised malignant code. In Leopard, the patch was apparently forgotten. This means that you can inadvertently start an executable by double-clicking a mail attachment that looks like a JPEG image file…………..

Read more about that topic here

I was looking for something similar to iptraf for OSX

Finaly got it…its called iftop

AFP548 offers an installer here

Iftop is a cli-based application which needs admin-privs.

…called: JollysFastVNC

Description:

AIM to become the best VNC client on the Mac. BACKGROUND When I started ScreenRecycler I thought that there are enough VNC clients out there to support it. When the program started to get useful I realized that the VNC clients available on the Mac were pretty slow and people were complaining about the speed of ScreenRecycler. I was using VNCThing at the time which proved to be acceptable on PPC Macs but does not run on Intel Macs. Without a proper viewer people can’t access ScreenRecycler in a way I imagined. So I started programming JollysFastVNC to enable people using ScreenRecycler. As I got a few mails about the VNC capabilities of JollysFastVNC I decided to enhance the program to be a fully functional VNC client. It’s still in the early stages of development, even though somewhat usable and fast as you can see here.

Friend of mine forwarded the following link to a game called Crayon Physics

Unfortunaly the game works only under Microsoft OS’es but ok…its still great

Instructions:

You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects.

With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects.

Space - Will reset the level.
Esc - Will open the menu.

Alt + enter - Will toggle fullscreen.
Alt + F4 - Will quit the game.