Monthly Archives: May 2006

Parallels RC and OPENSTEP works!

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

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New c.l.o-c alternative FAQ

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

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This so goes on my CV

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

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Today’s broken user interface award…

…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

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Complex things possible

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

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