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Author Archives: Graham Lee
Tracking the invisible, moving, unpredictable target
An idea which has been creeping up on me from the side over the last couple of weeks hit me square in the face today. No matter what standards we Cocoa types use to create our user interfaces, the official … Continue reading
Come back, purple button, all is forgiven!
As a great philosopher once wrote: don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone? Previews of Mac OS X had a user interface feature, known by all who saw it as the … Continue reading
How exciting
Today I was pleasantly surprised by Interface Builder. Not shiny, new, where the hell have they put that buttonstreamlined IB3, but boring old IB2 which even Slowlaris users could work out how to use. I dragged a header defining a … Continue reading
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Broke track mounting
For some reason, CDs occasionally don’t automount for me on my iMac. Luckily that’s easy to work around:kalevala:~ leeg$ diskutil list[…]/dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: CD_partition_scheme Audio CD *620.3 Mi disk3[…]kalevala:~ leeg$ diskutil mountDisk disk3Volume(s) mounted successfullyJob is, … Continue reading
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Nice things about ObjC
Title linkies to a post by an F-Script guy (the F-Script guy? I’m not sure, I don’t really follow F-Script development) about nice things he likes about the Objective-C language. Remembering that he wrote a Smalltalk scripting environment for Cocoa, … Continue reading
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My discs have been Americanised!
< p>For some reason, even though l10n and i18n have been fashionable terms in computing for the last few years, no-one seems able to localise properly into the lingua franca of computing, English. It may surprise some readers to learn … Continue reading
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“Patently” obvious
Due to a lack of digit extraction I’m not at FOSDEM this weekend. That’s unfortunate because as well as catching up with my friends at Brainstorm and on GNUstep, I really enjoyed the weekend last year and drank plenty of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, FOSDEM, fsf, GNU
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Don’t go there
From the title linky: " Mobility is only available for Windows and Linux." Good job no-one bases their mobile appliances on Mac OS X ;-)
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Mach-OFS: aforementioned polish and functionality
It’s getting there, now has the ability to display load commands (though it only reports useful information for LC_SEGMENT and LC_SEGMENT_64 commands): Again the screenshot depicts the OmniDazzle binary for no reason other than it’s a nontrivial file. The directions … Continue reading
Posted in darwin, macfuse, mach
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Well, you could have told me
When looking through some of the configuration options on my laptop (well, it’s either that or go to the pub and socialise with humans) I came across something I couldn’t account — pardon the pun — for. A new user … Continue reading
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