Now this might just be my system and I certainly don’t have this problem with any of my FreeBSD machines, but I’ve got a weird problem with filenames and colons on my Mac (10.5.8) with Ruby (ruby 1.8.6 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 369) [universal-darwin9.0]). Anyhow if I write something like this: File.open(‘foo:bar.txt’, ‘w’) {|f| f.write("hello world") } [...]
Just found the FileMerge tool in with the developer tools (in /Developer/Applications/Utilties if you’ve got the Developer Tools installed – free download from Apple after you’re registered). It’s a rather nice GUI version of the diff command line tool for comparing the differences between two files, but critically it does this rather sweet line scrolling [...]
I still run OSX 10.5, I know I’m so old fashioned… anyhow I wanted to upgrade some Mac Ports stuff and discovered the upgrade required XCode 3+ I only have version 3.0. I happily pottered off to Apple’s site and downloaded XCode 3.2, ran the package and … arghhh you must have OSX 10.6 or [...]
Pubsub is a system for managing RSS and Atom subscriptions for core Apple applications – Safari, etc.. It’s worth having a look at to see what random feeds it has subscribed you to from your browsing habits… :) http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pubsub.1.html
One problem I have with Windows XP installed under Parallels on my Macbook occurs when I plug in new USB devices. You get prompted to connect them to the Mac or the virtual machine. If I select the VM then nothing further happens, windows sits there ignoring the device. I have to run a “scan [...]
Since I was busy explaining how to do this to people at work yesterday I thought I might post it here. The problem encountered involved copying a 5GB file from a Mac to an external drive (to move it elsewhere), the drive in question was formatted with Fat32. They therefore hit the 4GB file size [...]
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