Author Archives: Graham Lee

I know that there’ve been mixed results in trying to get OPENSTEP booting on Parallels Desktop RC, but it Works For Me^{TM}. In case this is a particularly special piece of information, I upgraded directly from beta 4 (which I’d … Continue reading →

So there used to be an alternative comp.lang.objective-c FAQ, but that never really got going.  I’ve been working on a new c.l.o-c FAQ listing with Mike Ash from Rogue Amoeba.  Why an alternative FAQ?  The official one is maintained by … Continue reading →

Today’s sysadmin skills involved rescuing some ALGOL code from an 8″ floppy, accessed from CP/M on an RM380Z:Amazingly although the disk hadn’t been accessed in over a decade (though was stored in a Cool Dry Place^{TM}), everything worked first time.  … Continue reading →

…goes to printing on OS X Server. You’ll notice that you can add or remove printers via Server Admin: however, if you do add one via that route then the system will try and get the printer to emit its … Continue reading →

I was once told by a local Human-Computer Interface luminary (who claims to have in-depth knowledge of the way NeXTStep’s UI works) that it’s not possible in any existing GUI to have lines connecting separate windows.Allow me to introduce a … Continue reading →

….will no longer boot OPENSTEP successfully, as far as I can tell.  At least, OS4.2 hangs out, in trying to load the VBE driver.  Reverting to Beta 4 works though. If anyone has different experiences with Beta 5, could they … Continue reading →

So, Sun have a new CEO in the shape of President and erstwhile COO Jonathan Schwartz.  Schwartz joined Sun back when they acquired Lighthouse Design, a NeXTSTEP applications developer with an office suite for the platform.  Having slightly more bravado … Continue reading →

So, I’m far from the first to discuss the voodoo surrounding repair permissions, but I’ve never seen quite such a flagrant violation of penal code 1984 (It is a felony to pass off your own sloppy programming as a user … Continue reading →

[Title link goes to my Oxford homepage, where you can grab a PDF of my slides and notes] So yesterday was the UKUUG/Apple tech briefing on the Intel transition. Talking to Eric (Albert, Apple Core OS group) and listening to … Continue reading →

I see someone else is also using OpenStep/Parallels/Mac/i386; let’s hope we don’t start outstripping OS X usage :-) N.B. slides from today’s Intel talk coming soon…ish…