Category Archives: whatevs

I just noticed that I’ve been using Xcode’s codesense all day, despite the fact that I’m writing Python (albeit with PyObjC goodness).  I wasn’t aware that that would work, but then I wasn’t really aware that it was working, if … Continue reading →

I reckon I might be some kind of operating-system collecting nerd.  Having played with various systems on the Intel Mac at work through Parallels (NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris 10, DesktopBSD) got me wondering why I don’t do the … Continue reading →

Quite a few people seem to have issues with Parallels/OPENSTEP/Mach, so let’s at least remove Parallels configuration from the list of unknowns.  Try this PVS file, see if that helps.  BTW, anyone having problems, what host system are you using?

[N.B. I’ll make heavy use of links to DarwinGrok in this post. However, I make no comment on the availability of darwingrok; it’s set up on a test server which is unsupported, to test how well said unsupported server handles … Continue reading →

The linux tool free(1) just reports how much memory is free (and how much is in use).  Simple, really.  There’s no obvious equivalent for Darwin, though.  We’ve got top(1) which is overkill, and vm_stat(1) which is abstract to say the … Continue reading →

Hurrah! NetBSD on the G5 gives us a potentially useful option for G5 servers when Darwin/BSD is inevitably phased out for the PPC…it’d be interesting if COMPAT_DARWIN comes along to the point where NetBSD can actually run WindowServer too. I … Continue reading →

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 →