Category Archives: Apple

Problems with the OS X 10.5.5 update and X11

After upgrading to OS X 10.5.5 I ran into an issue with X11 refusing to start. I first noticed this issue as a problem with ssh hanging while trying to establish a connection. When I dug into this problem I … Continue reading

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Embedding a command line tool within a Cocoa application

I’m developing in XCode and have manged to import the source code for the command line tool as say command_line.c. What do I need to do to have this file built as a command line tool that is embedded in the main Cocoa application? Continue reading

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iPhone Firmware… come out, come out, wherever you are.

After poking at these crash report files I spent a little time searching my MacBook to find the iPhone firmware. It turns out that the firmware is not part of the basic iTunes 7.3 install. Somehow I got the iPhone … Continue reading

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iPhone Crash Reporting

A few hours after setting up and exploring my iPhone I sync’d it again. During this sync an Apple crash reporter dialog appeared asking permission to send a crash report to Apple. This was a little strange since iTunes was … Continue reading

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iPhone iWibble iAcquired

I’ve been wibbling back and forth on whether to get a v1 iPhone. My main reason against was uncertainty about the EDGE networking speed and my feeling that that v2 would be released quickly with 3G networking for the European … Continue reading

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Rhapsody DR2

Apple acquired Next Software in 1997 bringing OpenStep into the Apple fold. OpenStep (and NeXTstep before it) was based on BSD Unix running on top of a heavily modified version of the Mach micro-kernel. OpenStep was used as the foundation … Continue reading

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