I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup the Mini to an encrypted sparse image. OS X 10.6 used to mount the image automatically but quit doing so and I can’t figure out why. In lieu of that I built an Automator script to mount the share so that CCC could mount the image. That worked [...]
10.7 introduced “leather bound” iCal and Address Book. This student’s app changes them back. Might even donate a little something to him for saving you the trouble.
Meng Zhang set up project files for building Chibi for OS X and an iOS REPL here. With virtually no iOS knowledge I just checked it out, built it, and ran it on the simulator in a couple of minutes. Thank you Alex and Meng! (via chibi-scheme)
For connecting Windows to OSX via VNC; UltraVNC seems to work the best. The other clients drop frequently.
To satisfy my own curiosity, I reinstalled OS X Snow Leopard today. It took about 48m to install the OS. I excluded all printer drivers, foreign language fonts, and translations. You can’t trust the estimated time to completion. It started by reporting only 17m. After 17m, it changed to 18m, at which point I quit [...]
What is a good OS X Subversion client? Paul recommended this. With all of the distributed VCSs out there Subversion tends to get shunned these days; but people seem to forget that sometimes dead simple is sometimes more than good enough. Besides, you can use git and bzr with svn just fine.
class-dump This is a command-line utility for examining the Objective-C runtime information stored in Mach-O files. It generates declarations for the classes, categories and protocols. This is the same information provided by using ‘otool -ov’, but presented as normal Objective-C declarations, so it is much more compact and readable. Why use class-dump? It’s a great [...]
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.
OS X refused to let me empty the trash as it contained TimeMachine’s Backups.backupdb directory. It simply complained that there were BootX files present. The trash could not be emptied with an option-empty, either. I found this solution to work fine; which involved rm -rf’ing the .Trash dir in my home directory (which was unnecessary) [...]
To satisfy my own curiousity, I reinstalled OS X Leopard today. It took about 1.5h to install the OS and 30m to install the base apps like iDVD and so on. This was on a 2.0GHz Core2Duo Mini.