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A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
Spent some time today updating the missing bits of the OS X version of the Dropbox cloner I uploaded last night. You can just grab the executable or grab the whole project from the github repository....
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Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X...
View ArticleTwo Alfred Extensions For Retrieving IP Address Information
I’ve been an unapologetic Alfred user since @hatlessec recommended it and have recently been cobbling together quick shell scripts that make life a bit easier. The following ones – lip & rip – copy...
View ArticleGetting Homebrew Working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 with Xcode 4.4...
Work & home chaos has me a bit behind in the “ThinkStats…in R” posts, but I “needed” to get some of the homebrew kit working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 (to run some network discovery...
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Angry Birds Keynote Theme
If you went to SOURCE Boston this year (2012), attended my security awareness talk and liked the Angry Birds theme to the slides, here’s a copy of the Keynote theme (it’s not really a true Keynote...
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Mountain Lion, AirPlay, Screen Captures & DRM
I’ve been wanting to post this entry for a while, but I didn’t have the opportunity to compel an extra pair of hands to assist with some necessary, salient portions of it until tonight. For those who...
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Slopegraphs in Python
(NOTE: You can keep up with progress best at github, but can always search on “slopegraph” here or just hit the tag page: “slopegraph” regularly) I’ve been a bit obsessed with slopegraphs (a.k.a “Tufte...
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Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
If this feature was in Mountain Lion Developer Previews prior to revision 4, I didn’t notice it, but you can now tweet directly from the Notification Center “pane”. You first need to make sure said...
View ArticleBuilding Jytter On OS X (tested on Mountain Lion)
Dan Kaminski (@dakami) tweeted a cool, small (11 instruction) TRNG generator called Jytter Friday: https://twitter.com/dakami/status/239179831860924416 The authors have Windows & Linux ports but no...
View Article“Show in Finder” Broken? Here’s One Potential Way To Fix It
I’m not entirely sure what happened to cause it, but the “Show in Finder…” feature of a plethora of OS X apps broke on me just over a month ago. I poked around a bit, deleted a preference file here or...
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Use Fluid On MacOS To Build Per-RStudio Server “Dedicated” Clients
I’m jumping around analytics environments these days and have to leave the comfort of my Mac’s RStudio Desktop application to use various RStudio Server instances via browser. While I prefer to use...
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Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
Having received a couple follow-ups to the OS X notifications on RStudio Desktop for the Mac post, I was determined to find a quick hack to get remote notifications to OS X working from (at least)...
View ArticleChange The Default “Shell…” Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it’s great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use iTerm 2 when I need to do...
View ArticleGetting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner’s #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further processing. On a linux system, installing it is as simple as: sudo...
View ArticleMoving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there’s a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make...
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An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station...
I’ve operated a Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) [KMEBERWI7] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do...
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Installing R on OS X
NOTE: The comments are a must read for this. Some excellent additional advice and “gotchas” by some super-helpful readers. I was in a conversation with an academic colleague (wicked smart dude) and the...
View ArticleInstalling R on OS X –“100% Homebrew Edition”
In a previous post I provided “mouse-heavy” instructions for getting R running on your Mac. A few of the comments suggested that an “all Homebrew” solution may be preferable for some folks. Now, there...
View ArticleAn OS X R Task Runner for—and a Mini-R-centric review of—Microsoft’s Visual...
Microsoft’s newfound desire to make themselves desirable to the hipster development community has caused them to make many things open and/or free of late. One of these manifestations is Visual Studio...
View ArticleOS X XQuartz Vulnerability Test Using R
It’s usually a good thing when my #rstats and infosec worlds collide. Unfortunately, this time it’s a script that R folk running on OS X can use to see if they are using a version of XQuartz that has a...
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