Category Archives: leopard

Follow-up-and-slightly-over on safety/security

The one thing which makes this a less-than-standard follow-up is that the original was not posted here, but over on paranym Graham Cluley’s blog. I originally wrote about the (fictitious) difference between safety and security. For those who didn’t clickety … Continue reading

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Cocoa Memory Management

It becomes evident, thanks to the mass centralisation of the neverending september effect that is stackoverflow, that despite the large number of electrons expended on documenting the retain/release/autorelease reference counting mechanism for managing memory in Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, AppKit, … Continue reading

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A better bit o’ twitter than the bitter twitter Tommy Titter bought

Just because everyone these days writes a Twitter client: This was actually a quick hack project to make up for the fact that I missed CocoaHeads tonight (due to a combination of an uninteresting phone call, and a decision to … Continue reading

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Local KDC on Leopard

via Nigel Kersten, a great description of the operation of Leopard’s built-in local KDC. I think the most exciting thing about the local KDC is the Bonjour support; could we see simple cross-system trust in the near future? Could there … Continue reading

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WWDC part 0

well, here it is, the pre-WWDC “I’m jetlagged so you have to put up with my wittering” post. I’m just waiting for a softwareupdate to finish so that I can go out with my camera, taking some early-morning pictures before … Continue reading

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Broke track mounting

For some reason, CDs occasionally don’t automount for me on my iMac. Luckily that’s easy to work around:kalevala:~ leeg$ diskutil list[…]/dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: CD_partition_scheme Audio CD *620.3 Mi disk3[…]kalevala:~ leeg$ diskutil mountDisk disk3Volume(s) mounted successfullyJob is, … Continue reading

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Verify your backups

Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 this weekend, and three of the features are Time Machine, dtrace, and improved CHUD tools. Time Machine, dtrace, CHUD tools. iPod, mobile phone, web browser. Time Machine, dtrace, CHUD tools. To spell that out … Continue reading

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Apple and Google sitting in a tree, f-i-g-h…erm…t-i-ng

This really came out of a throwaway comment I made on Daniel, but it seems popular to pick apart every last iota of Steveness from the WWDC keynote, and I’m nothing if not popular. So here we go. What is … Continue reading

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