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Apple Software Updates

October 3, 2008 in Blog

I don’t really understand why Apple decided it would be a good idea to make the software update tool render your entire computer useless when all it’s doing is downloading updates.  I understand (not really, but maybe sometimes) if it needs to not have the user doing things while it’s installing an update… That’s fine.

I use the command line software update tool to download the updates now like so:

%softwareupdate -da
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2007 Apple

Done Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update
Done Remote Desktop Client Update
Done Front Row Update
Downloading iTunes	0..20..40.................. etc...

Then to install, you can do:

%sudo softwareupdate -ia

Wait for that to finish, and reboot if necessary.

Usage:

%softwareupdate
usage: softwareupdate  [ ...]

	-l | --list		List all appropriate updates
	-d | --download		Download Only
	-i | --install		Install
		 ...	specific updates
		-a | --all		all appropriate updates
		-r | --recommended	only recommended updates

	Per-user preferences:
	--ignore  ...	Ignore specific updates
	--reset-ignored		Clear all ignored updates
	--schedule (on | off)	Set automatic checking

	-h | --help	Print this help

Mutt is annoying as …

October 2, 2008 in Blog

I’ve wanted to use a text-based e-mail client for quite some time now, and never got around to it. I remembered using pine in the past for pop stuff, but people say mutt is much better. So, I gave it a shot, and I have to say, I’m not impressed.

The documentation is horrid. It took me forever to find out about the ‘move’ config option, so I could finally get it to shut up about moving things from IMAP to my local directories (which I didn’t want in the first place).

Now I can’t figure out a way to make it so I can see what’s in an IMAP directory with subdirectories. For instance, I’ve got Saved/Work, Saved/School, etc… but for some reason, I can only look in Work, or School, not Saved/.

Something tells me this might not be worth it.