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For anyone who uses Growl for event notification on Mac OSX and who wants to receive notifications from a Linux machine (eg: a local server), take a look a Ruby-Growl . Pretty simple to set up and works fairly nicely. Example CLI usage: growl -H 192.168.1.x -t "Server ready" -m "The server has finished booting" -P ****** It might be nice to be able to do a general network broadcast but I suspect the security implications mean you...

As a reminder for myself, and in case anyone happens to find it useful: if you run into problems making IIS send mail with CDOSYS from within a .asp file (VBScript) like I did today - this may help: First, put this at the very top of your script (before the language declaration, etc)

Any Mac users out there who want a free Office Suite? I thoroughly recommend NeoOffice - the Mac native version of OpenOffice.org . I'd been using version 1 for a while on OSX 10.3 and, while better than running OpenOffice.org in X11, it was still somewhat lacking. A few months ago NeoOffice 2 Alpha was released which was based on OpenOffice.org 2 and was generally a major improvement. That said, it took rather a long time to open -...

What should be a relatively simple procedure turns into a bit of a nightmarish hack! I wonder why it is that, although possible to use the "Open File" alarm option and point it at an AppleScript to get a Growl notification, Apple chose not to send any event variables with it? This means it's perfectly feasible to announce "This is a reminder" but it's impossible to discover what the reminder was for without opening...