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10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
I'm all about automation and making things easier, and I don't mean to rain on everyone's parade here, but come on. Going thru all this just to change your network location without having to make 2 clicks, once on the Apple menu, second on Location, amazes me. How hard is it to select your Location with 2 clicks? Use Quicksilver and setup keyboard Triggers and do it in a single key combination, that's what I do. I'm not going to put so much effort into a script that almost seems pointless beyond just doing it.
10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
I think it took more effort to question other's laziness than it'd take to actually do this.
10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
It was far from an insult. Your automatic email sending could be cool. Put into a different context, then this script could be useful, but simply doing this to change your location when you are using your computer just seemed silly to me. Nothing beyond that simple opinion was intended.
10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
I think that this script would be incredible for those that have MANY choices or want to make more changes than Apple allows/facilitates with just the LOCATION tag, like printer changes, and these choices can be selected repeatedly (and I like this solution due to the cost involved. Free is a very powerful choice)
10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
OK, slimflem. I'll accept your statement. I'd like to suggest that you may not realize how the way you chose to express yourself comes across to others. I'll take a brief opportunity to help explain.
10.4: Set 'Location' automatically via a script
I did manually change it, twice a day for several years, and you know what? It got OLD. I would forget, so my network setup had my work fixed IP address, and a proxy setup to use the company proxy server. I would go home and didn't get new mail notices, iChat would not go on-line, I would try to surf, but the proxy server I use for work isn't available at home, etc... And the reverse when I got to work, as my home setup doesn't have a proxy server, and I have the wrong IP address for work, etc... Like I said, it got old. I've been using a Sleepwatcher based trigger, that executes a network location detection and change script for about 6 months, and it has been a joy. Besides, I thought people that liked to read MacOSXHints, also liked to find interesting and different ways to make their Macs work for them. Bob Harris |
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