Category Archives: whatevs

It’s about time someone made a UNIX keyboard for the Mac. I still love my Tactile Pro, and have obviously configured the caps lock key as an additional Control, but that key doesn’t feel like the same buckling spring as … Continue reading →

Yesterday I had a little problem with the iBook, which was saved by some age-old knowledge from before the OS X release. Almost. When I use an external USB mouse, I disable the internal trackpad. Now I wanted to take … Continue reading →

So I’m reviewing a book, and it happens to cover the way method lookups are performed in a particular language’s object model. I’m not going to say what the book is because it’s not relevant, and nothing discussed here has … Continue reading →

Bottom of the page, under Media Reviews. I’ve got another couple of review copies sat here, too…

So, they said that Steve Wozniak would be there, and that he’d be signing books. So I took my book to be signed. That wasn’t wrong, was it? N.B.: yes, I bought a copy of iWoz and had that signed … Continue reading →

The people credited with bringing GNUstep support to OCUnit a few versions back (at least one of whom I recognise as a competent programmer who really knows what they’re doing), as the current version just won’t work at all ;-).  … Continue reading →

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 →