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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 noticed that ssh was hanging immediately after some X11 related operations were performed. I have [...]

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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?

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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 Mail client into a weird state where it was downloading email but would only show [...]

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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 still running and no other processes were active. On looking deeper it turned out that [...]

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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 market. After Steve’s comments about 3G chipsets being power hogs and “not quite mature”, I [...]

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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 of operating system development at Apple through the late 1990s up to the release of [...]

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