Reinstalling Leopard
To satisfy my own curiousity, I reinstalled OS X Leopard today. It took about 1.5h to install the OS and 30m to install the base apps like iDVD and so on. This was on a 2.0GHz Core2Duo Mini.
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OS X refused to let me empty the trash as it contained TimeMachine’s Backups.backupdb directory. It simply complained that there were BootX files present. The trash could not be emptied with an...
View ArticleImpromptu Scheme for OS X
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a...
View ArticleExamining the Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files
class-dump This is a command-line utility for examining the Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files. It generates declarations for the classes, categories and protocols. This is the...
View ArticleWhat is a good OS X Subversion client?
What is a good OS X Subversion client? Paul recommended this. With all of the distributed VCSs out there Subversion tends to get shunned these days; but people seem to forget that sometimes dead...
View ArticleReinstalling Snow Leopard
To satisfy my own curiosity, I reinstalled OS X Snow Leopard today. It took about 48m to install the OS. I excluded all printer drivers, foreign language fonts, and translations. You can’t trust the...
View ArticleUltraVNC Seems to Work Best for Windows to OSX
For connecting Windows to OSX via VNC; UltraVNC seems to work the best. The other clients drop frequently.
View ArticleChibi Scheme Build for an OS X library and iOS REPL
Meng Zhang set up project files for building Chibi for OS X and an iOS REPL here. With virtually no iOS knowledge I just checked it out, built it, and ran it on the simulator in a couple of minutes....
View ArticleEasily change the backgrounds of iCal and Address Book in OS X 10.7
10.7 introduced “leather bound” iCal and Address Book. This student’s app changes them back. Might even donate a little something to him for saving you the trouble.
View ArticleMounting a Sparseimage with Automator in OS X
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup the Mini to an encrypted sparse image. OS X 10.6 used to mount the image automatically but quit doing so and I can’t figure out why. In lieu of that I built an...
View ArticleReinstalling Leopard
To satisfy my own curiousity, I reinstalled OS X Leopard today. It took about 1.5h to install the OS and 30m to install the base apps like iDVD and so on. This was on a 2.0GHz Core2Duo Mini.
View ArticleManually Empting Leopard’s Trash
OS X refused to let me empty the trash as it contained TimeMachine’s Backups.backupdb directory. It simply complained that there were BootX files present. The trash could not be emptied with an...
View ArticleImpromptu Scheme for OS X
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a...
View ArticleExamining the Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files
class-dump This is a command-line utility for examining the Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files. It generates declarations for the classes, categories and protocols. This is the...
View ArticleWhat is a good OS X Subversion client?
What is a good OS X Subversion client? Paul recommended this. With all of the distributed VCSs out there Subversion tends to get shunned these days; but people seem to forget that sometimes dead...
View ArticleReinstalling Snow Leopard
To satisfy my own curiosity, I reinstalled OS X Snow Leopard today. It took about 48m to install the OS. I excluded all printer drivers, foreign language fonts, and translations. You can’t trust the...
View ArticleUltraVNC Seems to Work Best for Windows to OSX
For connecting Windows to OSX via VNC; UltraVNC seems to work the best. The other clients drop frequently.
View ArticleChibi Scheme Build for an OS X library and iOS REPL
Meng Zhang set up project files for building Chibi for OS X and an iOS REPL here. With virtually no iOS knowledge I just checked it out, built it, and ran it on the simulator in a couple of minutes....
View ArticleEasily change the backgrounds of iCal and Address Book in OS X 10.7
10.7 introduced “leather bound” iCal and Address Book. This student’s app changes them back. Might even donate a little something to him for saving you the trouble.
View ArticleMounting a Sparseimage with Automator in OS X
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup the Mini to an encrypted sparse image. OS X 10.6 used to mount the image automatically but quit doing so and I can’t figure out why. In lieu of that I built an...
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