Author Archives: Graham Lee

FSF membership

Posted on 2007-12-04 by Graham Lee

I am now an associate member of the FSF. This is a good way to support Free Software development (including GNUstep, and you don’t even need to be able to code :-). I’ve added a referral link to the sidebar … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, fsf, GNU, gnustep | 1 Comment

Post #100!

Posted on 2007-11-23 by Graham Lee

And to celebrate, we look at the differences between managers and humansprogrammers.

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Upcoming Cocoa nerd stuff

Posted on 2007-11-22 by Graham Lee

I have organised a NSCoder Night for this coming Tuesday, November 27. It shall be in the Jericho Tavern pub at 8pm; bring yourself, bring an interest in Cocoa, and perhaps bring some code to talk about or work on. … Continue reading →

Posted in cocoa, gtd, nscoder, omnifocus, oxmug | 1 Comment

Verify your backups

Posted on 2007-10-29 by Graham Lee

Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 this weekend, and three of the features are Time Machine, dtrace, and improved CHUD tools. Time Machine, dtrace, CHUD tools. iPod, mobile phone, web browser. Time Machine, dtrace, CHUD tools. To spell that out … Continue reading →

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+1-415-312-0555

Posted on 2007-10-28 by Graham Lee

Back in 1992, Robert X. Cringely wrote in Accidental Empires: How the boys of Silicon Valley make their billions, battle foreign competition, and still can’t get a date [Oxford comma sic]: Fifteen years from now, we [Americans] won’t be able … Continue reading →

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OmniWeb 5.6 tip of the day

Posted on 2007-10-25 by Graham Lee

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool TRUE Sorry, but it doesn’t view properly and doesn’t print properly either :-(.

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The times, they mainly stay the same

Posted on 2007-10-23 by Graham Lee

bbum displays a graph of the market capitalization (he’s american, so the z sticks) of a few of the computer companies, noting that if after-hours trading isn’t too surprising, then tomorrow (for Americans, again) the market will open with Apple … Continue reading →

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Nice-looking LaTeX Unicode

Posted on 2007-10-13 by Graham Lee

Because there was no other single location with all of this written: usepackage{ucs} % Unicode supportusepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % UCS’ UTF-8 driver is better than the LaTeX kernel’susepackage[T1]{fontenc} % The default font encoding only contains Latin charactersusepackage{ae,aecompl} % Almost European fonts/hyphenation do … Continue reading →

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Still trading as ClosedDarwin

Posted on 2007-09-15 by Graham Lee

It’s not surprising, but while Apple’s opensource page now includes a link to the iPhone software release (clicky the title), this only contains links to the WebCore and JavaScriptCore source, which is also available from the WebKit home on MacOSForge.org. … Continue reading →

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Old news

Posted on 2007-09-05 by Graham Lee

So the Inquirer thinks they’ve got a hot potato on their hands, with this “security flaw” in OS X. I’ve been using this approach for years (like, since NeXTSTEP): boot into single-user and launch NetInfo manually, then passwd root. Or … Continue reading →

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