by David Orriss Jr | Nov 27, 2010 | Mac OS X, Programming
A subject that has been visited plenty of times is having an “Open Terminal Here” ability from the Finder. For developers, it’s a easy way to look at files or folders and then jump quickly to a shell for the folder and execute shell commands (like mv...
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 24, 2010 | Hardware, Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows
Do you own a Macbook Air or other modern Apple and want to install and use Windows 7 ala Boot Camp? If so, you may have encountered the dreaded “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model” error dialog when trying to run the provided Snow Leopard...
by David Orriss Jr | Dec 21, 2009 | Android, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems
For some reason the ROM Images for the Android Dev Phone 1 have the links missing from the main ADP-1 download site. When you go to http://developer.htc.com/adp.html You’re greeted with a table of ROM images and file names but the links have been removed: (You...
by David Orriss Jr | Nov 29, 2009 | J2EE, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems
EDIT: This no longer works as of 10.6.5 without some additional tweaks. I have to update the post accordingly. In an amazing moment of WTF I discovered this morning that after installing Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) that the only version of Java running on it was...
by David Orriss Jr | Nov 21, 2009 | Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems
Along with so many others, I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Overall the upgrade went without a hitch. However, I noticed that my Subversion repository was no longer available from Subclipse or via the Web Browser. Not good. So I did some digging around and upon finding...
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 7, 2009 | General, Operating Systems
Digital Simulacrum of John Lennon Promotes XO Laptops in OLPC Ad: Creepy as hell. See for yourself. Permanent link to ‘Digital Simulacrum of John Lennon Promotes XO Laptops in OLPC Ad’ (Via Daring Fireball.) Share...
