Author Archives: Graham Lee

In the spirit of My Dream App, I’ve invented my own dream app.  BestAppEvar.app would be able to divine what needs to be done by detecting my brainwaves, and would then do it when I hit the button.  To make … Continue reading →

I’m currently having a Vaio VGN-S4M inflicted upon me.  I can’t say I dislike it totally; the X-black screen is rather nice and it has one killer feature in that there’s a (physical) radio kill switch on the front.  However, … Continue reading →

An interesting time if you happen to be an aging startup superserver; Ubuntu are to replace init with Upstart from "Edgy Eft". That’s quite cool, the model in which everything needs to always come up and always in the same … Continue reading →

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…

Sorry, but I was finally pushed into turning magic word input on for comments on this blog. Anyone may still comment, but you need to decode a picture in order to do so.