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"Duane L. Mitchell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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The following is a meeting announcement of the Boston AppleScript User
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          BOSTON APPLESCRIPT USER GROUP "BAUG" MEETING
 
The Boston AppleScript User Group will be meeting on Tuesday,
January 24 at MIT Building E51, Room 372 located at the corner of
Wadsworth and Amherst Streets one block off Memorial Drive.

This month's meeting will be a discussion and demonstration of a couple
of short scripts that combine within them the use of Perl, Unix shell
scripting, and the XMail osax to build a very cool solution to a couple
of well known issues.

First, if you use Retrospect you may not be aware of this issue- if
Retrospect is unable to complete a scheduled backup then all future
scheduled backups are cancelled without notice. Suppose you run backups
overnight and suppose you have a power interruption during the backup
then you might be vulnerable to this issue. You might not even be aware
that you had a power outage and you may go on changing your backup media
on schedule not knowing there's no backup taking place...it happens.

Another issue is the lack of reporting by OS X when a mirrored drive
fails. The only way to know is to check it manually using the Disk
Utility application or its command line counterpart diskutil.

Tonight we'll build an AppleScript solution to the above issues. We'll
use AppleScript's "do shell script" command to get the information we
need, we'll use XMail osax to email the reports, and we'll use cron to
schedule this to occur on a regular basis.

These are short but powerful scripts and make for a good introduction to
the technologies they use. Beginners are encouraged to attend this
meeting and bring your questions.

NOTE- next month we change rooms to E51-345.

Agenda
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6:00pm- Q&A/Open topic discussion
6:30pm- Introductions and member discussion
      - Demonstration
8:00pm- Meeting concludes promptly
 
Who Should Attend
-----------------
- Graphic arts industry professionals
- Macintosh users 
- System and network administrators
- Web developers and internet solutions providers
 
Date and Location*
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Tuesday, January 24 at 6:00pm
 
MIT
Building E51, Room 372
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go

Enter building at the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets. Go directly
to the elevators behind the stair case in front of you. Do not go up the
stairs. Take the elevator to the 3rd Floor. Take right out of the elevator,
go past the classrooms on your left, go past stairs on right, and take the
first right corridor. Room 372 will be on your right. See parking suggestion
below.

Public Transportation and Parking
-----------------------
MBTA:
Red Line to Kendall Square Station
 
Parking-MIT parking lots nearby. There is a convenient parking lot one
block away on Hayward Street. See link to map above.
 
If you have any additional comments or questions, please
contact Duane Mitchell at <[log in to unmask]>.
 
Please let us know if you require any special
accommodations in order to attend.

*Dates, times, locations, speakers, and content may
change without notice.

Apple, the Apple Logo, AppleScript, and Macintosh are trademarks
of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Power Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
 
Other product and company names  mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective companies.  Any
understandings, agreements, or warranties take place
directly between the applicable vendor and the user.

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