Comments on: GeekTool

By: ronald

ronald — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:13:11 +0000

@Jelmer I assume that you’ve tried generating lots of traffic, reset the connections and so forth. You could try to check the write permissions or just delete the NetworkStatus_*_IO.txt files which store the previous amount of data transmitted, though they should be updated each time the script runs.

By: Jelmer

Jelmer — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:00:56 +0000

My network tracking stays at .15b/s down 1.17b/s up. Is there a way to fix this?

By: ronald

ronald — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:00:06 +0000

@alex: I haven’t used the scripts since my upgrade to Snow Leopard, aparentely I don’t need GeekTool that much. Anyway, I noticed some strange behavior too and found out that since SL the order of the output of ioreg has changed. I’ve updated the script to detect SL and reorder if needed. It should work now.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:13:57 +0000

thanks for the scripts.
having trouble making the battery one work. it displays something like 283% when the battery is fully charged and the charger is connected. the value changes if the charger is disconnected and seems to be reflecting the actual changes. and yet, nothing but ‘283%’ (or whatever the current value is) on the display

By: Kowaltski

Kowaltski — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:25:43 +0000

I’m using your iTunes applescript with geektool 3 and it work great when I tunes is running and when current track has artwork. But it won’t change the artwork when iTunes quits and/or when the track has no artwork. Any suggestions?

MBPro 15″
OSX 10.6.1
GeekTool 3.0 RC5 (116)

By: ronald

ronald — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:39:24 +0000

@erno That doesn’t make sense to me. I have little C skills but quite some programming skills so I could just misguess C syntax here… Anyway, cool that everything is up and running!

By: erno

erno — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:45:58 +0000

My friend solve that problem, these lines top of that code and it works. Don’t know anything about C but now I got cool scripts working…

#include
#include
#include
#include
main( )
….

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:54:44 +0000

@erno I’ve tried CC and GCC the same way you did and both give me a warning (incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’), but it compiles and works anyway. I have practically no expericence with C and made that program with lot’s of googling and trail and error, so I can’t really help you more than this.

You can get my compiled binary at http://rchu.nl/files/milliseconds, maybe that helps.

By: erno

erno — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:58:28 +0000

I forgot that, but when tried to compile your C script got many errors.
cc -o test test.c

what I should do that I can compile it right…

Many thanks ;o)

By: Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:45:21 +0000

@erno Thanks, I’ve made that goat several years ago, you can download it at rchu.nl/files/eldiablo.png

@Booby The $IO_old and $IO_now variables should contain three numerical values the first being the current UNIX time in miliseconds. Thats where the $5 and $6 variables come in. You’ve probably forgotten to compile the little C program listed below the network status script to return this time so the call to miliseconds fails.