Monthly Archives: September 2006

You can’t use a java.awt.Color in WebObjects, because to use AWT at all on OS X requires connection to the WindowServer.  And unless you’re mad, you probably aren’t running your WOA as root.  This means I can’t do things like, … Continue reading →

Strange things can happen when I get bored.  There’s a great little dashboard widget called WikityWidget, which lets you organise notes like a wiki.  Well, I thought, no point in only having my notes on one computer, why not scrape … Continue reading →

tyr:/Library/Parallels root# ls -ltotal 16-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 40 Sep 12 15:52 .dhcp.en2-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 4 17:10 .dhcpd_configuration-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 4 17:10 .parallels_common_options-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 100 Jul 4 22:44 .parallels_license_2.2

I can waste a lot of time if an interesting question gets posed. The most recent culprit was Chris Ridd in uk.comp.sys.mac, wondering aloud if threads ever got shuttled between CPUs on a Mac. Here we go… It certainly looks … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to reply to bbum’s post, firstly my comments were removed as spam, then he approved them by hand, now they’re gone again. So here they are again. I wrote [in this blog] much about my experiences getting … Continue reading →

I spent a lot of today grokking Distributed Objects to write a FAQ entry on it; link above goes to the new entry. Of course, any comments on it or the rest of the FAQ are welcome…