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I purchased a new 13″ MacBook Air last week. It arrived today, though FedEx has this habit of delivering my personal Apple hardware purchases to ECE instead of CSE. I was watching the tracking like a hawk, so I picked it up from them within 30 minutes of delivery. I bought the Core i7 1.8GHz [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion as soon as it came out. I decided to upgrade MySQL from 5.1.57 to the latest 5.5.15 as well. I figured it was about time to do this on my development systems. I’m using Rails 3.1-rc4 and the mysql gem. I [...]
I was asked about a problem with slow mobile user log ins for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. We configure our AD users to use mobile accounts in Snow Leopard because this allows us to enable FileVault. You can’t do that with a regular network user account, even if you force their home directory to [...]
It seems that Mac OS X does not come with Ident daemon. Naturally this means virtually nothing unless you want to avoid a ~ character in your IRC nick. Not wanting to look like a fool on #unix, though I never really am or were there (maybe a few times about 11 years ago), I [...]
I ran into an interesting problem trying to build Bro tonight. I’ve installed Xcode 4, but it no longer has the PPC compiler. This causes problems when connecting C/C++ code to scripting languages. In this case it was using swig to do this with broctl and Python. I would get a build error after setting [...]
We are starting to get new Mac systems in for desktop replacements at work. In the past these were treated as completely standalone systems. Users had local home directories, and we weren’t even really backing them up due to the complications FileValut presented. I really hope Lion solves this with full disk encryption, but I’ve [...]
When it comes to software development using Objective-C frameworks, I like rules. Rules tell me what to do because… they are rules. That’s what rules do. Let’s review some Apple rules on memory management in a reference counted environment (Cocoa for example). First we have the fundamental rule: You take ownership of an object if [...]
It seems Apple has a cop-out for the Aperture 2 problem I found (aside from slowness now): Apple Aperture 2 Excuse Wow. Are they serious? Note the date on that is October 14, 2009. Let me see if I get this straight. So, there’s a bug in your software (or OS, it used to work [...]
I’ve run into my first Apple application failure. I really like Aperture 2. I’ve spent a fair amount of time moving my photographs into it. I didn’t even try Adobe Lightroom 2 because I liked Aperture 2′s UI so much after trying it. I rushed out and bought it, and life was good – life [...]
I still use Mac OS X Leopard at work, but I have Snow Leopard at home. I am not sure when I noticed, but both machines did not see the same To Do items for my work email account that I access over IMAP. At one point my work client hung so bad that I [...]