tags: Mac OS X
2003
August
- 2003 Aug 16
- keychain – always allow
Annoying dialog boxes
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September
- 2003 Sep 6
- stackable iPods
We should be able to daisy chain iPods and create a RAID array. Or at least have Logical Volume Management.
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December
- 2003 Dec 15
- iBook saga continues
I miss blogging. Of course, lately I have very little to blog about, what with my life completely subsumed with my internal medicine subinternship, and interviews with med/peds residency programs, but, frankly, I'm beginning to feel pretty mentally constipated.
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2004
April
- 2004 Apr 9
- virtual hosts and cgi
I had this working before, mostly with the help of this script [citation on macosxhints.com][post on patrickgibson.com] Because of my iBook mishaps, all my tweaks were wiped, and I haven't had the time to reinstate the changes.
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2006
October
- 2006 Oct 17
- mac/intel != win/intel
J Angelo Racoma looks back at the argument that Apple switching to the x86 would be tantamount to the suicide of Apple Computer, Inc.
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- 15 years too early
I stumbled upon this post about NeXTSTEP (the OS that Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple way back when), which basically already had almost all the features of Mac OS X. Which makes sense. Mac OS (what is now known as Classic) was an evolutionary dead-end with regards to operating systems, about on par with Windows 3.11. And while Apple worked on the vaporware that was known as Copland and even while they flirted with BeOS (what could’ve been, huh?), NeXT was already there and was already a decently established development environment. Hell, it had already spawned an Open Source project (GNUstep) before Apple finally decided to get their shit together and bring Steve back.
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2007
May
- 2007 May 31
- disinformation (itunes 7.2 and itms)
At the risk of sounding like a raving, gibbering Apple fanboy, I’ve got to ask, what’s up with all the FUD? First there is the paranoia about Apple tracking you through your DRM-less $1.29 downloads, and now there’s this big deal about no longer being able to convert DRMed AACs to DRM-less MP3s (discovered via boingboing.net.)
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July
- 2007 Jul 23
- drag-and-drop goodness
Now, granted, I’m no impartial observer. I’ve hated Windows since the 1998 iteration, and haven’t looked back. I used Linux as my primary OS from 1999 to 2002, then finally ended up buying an iBook and switching to Mac OS X (which was at version 10.1 at the time.) So I am confused by the outrage generated by drag-and-drop “installation” that is the method that Apple recommends to all developers. The article itself discusses the rationale for these guidelines, which I won’t regurgitate, but which I will refer to.
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August
- 2007 Aug 8
- cocoa vs carbon (an on-going debate)
Even six and a half years after the debut of Mac OS X, this programming API debate continues to draw
· Read more…flamespassionate cries of outrage from both camps: the classic Mac OS developers versus the NeXTish developers. [Carbon viewpoint][Cocoa rebuttal] And while Apple does officially intend for Carbon and Cocoa to be both native, first-class APIs, I always got the feeling that the ultimate target was Cocoa. This is unsurprising, considering that Cocoa, derived from NEXTSTEP, is therefore sort of Steve Jobs’ baby. - 2007 Aug 21
- mephisto on Mac OS X
Currently, I am actually running a copy of Mephisto on my sister’s MacBook. Navigating the interface seems marginally faster than interacting with a remote copy on Dreamhost, but that could all be placebo effect. The main reason I wanted to do this is because I didn’t want to have to SSH into my shell account on Dreamhost for troubleshooting purposes. To be fair, it seems like they’ve taken care of their networking issues and the massive amounts of latency is now gone, but still.
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October
- 2007 Oct 28
- us vs them
Anil Dash objects to the subtle mockery that Apple throws towards Windows, and I do see his point. It’s yet another sign of “immaturity”, in the same vein of the shit-talking found in the Mac vc PC ads.
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November
- 2007 Nov 20
- round corners
The round corners of the menu bar in Mac OS seem to be an artifact from the early 1980’s, when the 9 inch CRT of the original Mac 128k had rounded bezels.
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2008
February
- 2008 Feb 15
- the market share myth: why mac os x will never be completely open source
Some people just don't get it.
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March
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- 2008 Mar 4
- unix: it's fan-tastic
The great thing about running UNIX is that it's like running around with a loaded
· Read more…gunrocket-launcher with a hair trigger. One of the things that frustrated me the most with Windows is that if something broke, the only reasonable solution was to reformat your hard drive and reinstall. - 2008 Mar 22
- os timeline
August
- 2008 Aug 11
- screen sharing/vnc over ssh in mac os x
I don't know why only this particular invocation worked for me, but I finally figured out how to share my desktop screen over the Internet
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2015
October
- 2015 Oct 7
- OS Timeline Updated
A chronology of desktop operating systems from 2001-2015
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