Monthly Archives: September 2006

GAH!

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

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WikityWebsite

Strange things can happen when I get bored.  There’s a great little dashboard widget called WikityWidget, which lets you organise notes like a wiki.  Well, I thought, no point in only having my notes on one computer, why not scrape … Continue reading

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Parallels may, in fact, be completely dumb

tyr:/Library/Parallels root# ls -ltotal 16-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 40 Sep 12 15:52 .dhcp.en2-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 4 17:10 .dhcpd_configuration-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 4 17:10 .parallels_common_options-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 100 Jul 4 22:44 .parallels_license_2.2

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switching CPUs

I can waste a lot of time if an interesting question gets posed. The most recent culprit was Chris Ridd in uk.comp.sys.mac, wondering aloud if threads ever got shuttled between CPUs on a Mac. Here we go… It certainly looks … Continue reading

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OPENSTEP/Parallels/VirtualPC/Spam

I’ve been trying to reply to bbum’s post, firstly my comments were removed as spam, then he approved them by hand, now they’re gone again. So here they are again. I wrote [in this blog] much about my experiences getting … Continue reading

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ObjC FAQ update

I spent a lot of today grokking Distributed Objects to write a FAQ entry on it; link above goes to the new entry. Of course, any comments on it or the rest of the FAQ are welcome…

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