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 [...]
Tagged osx X11 AppleAfter 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 [...]
Consistency in the user interface is a vital part of making applications easy to use. Arguably, UI consistency is a significant factor in the oft-repeated ease-of-use provided by MacOS and now OS X. Certainly Apple pushed their User Interface Design Guidelines for many years to foster UI consistency. Unfortunately, software developers occasionally forget about consistency.
In [...]
During the course of my Masters and PhD work I accumulated a veritable mountain of papers… articles ordered from library research services, photocopied papers tossed on my desk by my advisor, and the occasional seminal paper that I stumbled across in an old journal that I knew that I’d never be able to find again. [...]
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