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Has anyone else messed around with writing unit tests with OCUnit (now built-in with XCode 2.2 and later)? I personally have started messing around with it, and OCMock, and am very pleasantly surprised a how clean it is. As a member of a Windows-centered programming team messing around with unit...

It is official, viruses on Windows have gotten more malicious than normal and we are starting to see some really nasty stuff come out. Even more reason to do regular backups from now on, and feel lucky that we haven't dealt with something this nasty on OS X yet: Ransom-Ware : Now hackers can...

I am actually doing a bit of development for a very large, nameless Windows-oriented company in the USB field at the moment. *cough* So, part of the development required the latest USB spec documents from the USB-IF group (the 'company' in charge of the specification). Well, I grab the latest...

While Spotlight is very cool, there is a slight issue with the effect of the indexing method on performance. I realized part of the Quicktime playback issues in 8A294 on older systems are actually due to Spotlight, not CoreVideo. When you first have Tiger installed, it starts a process called...

I recently acquired a Pismo that was dead for quite a few months. I managed revive it without having to replace the logic board, sound board, power board or processor, which is good news. Here is the bad/annoying part of the machine: If I plug in external speakers, I get a great deal of...

Someone submitted an article to MacTech for last month's magazine. This one was particularly interesting, as the author had found out how the 3G iPods load software and run the little nifty apps like Notes, the games and so on. It is actually very straight-forward (as long as you know SNOBOL and...

I have an older 8600 which has run great until 2 days ago. Doing some investigating, it refuses to boot completely into any OS (8, 9, even X). I get large numbers of bus errors during boot, lockups, and when I did boot into single-user mode in OS X I attempted to fsck... Bus error (attempt 1)...

I just pulled this game back up because I was in the mood for some MoO/Spaceward Ho gaming... and found out how easy and smooth you can serve multiplayer games for this one. Low bandwidth, adjustable time/etc... so I currently have a nice game going with the GF and this game can host many more...

I have a Lombard 333 I bought used, and I just got a Sony CRX820E drive (same one used in the iBook in the last half of 2002) along with an Apple DVD Decoder module. Here is my problem, DVDs like a couple from my Farscape S1 box set, Shogun miniseries box set, Fellowship of the Ring, the Two...

Well, now that we have Xgrid... which does nothing, why not do something just because it is there? I remember helping someone attempt the factorial of 1 million, but failing because we didn't have enough time or computing power. Here is the trick I am attempting... I want to get an Xgrid setup...

Since Apple has officially dropped support for the Beige G3, and Wallstreets... anyone try this on a decent Lombard? Will it be worth running 10.3 on a system like this?

Anyone here running a newerTECH MAXpowr G4 CPU upgrade card in their PCI Powermac and using OS X? Specifically, if you have gotten the 350Mhz G4 upgrade to work, it would be VERY helpful to hear about it now. :confused:

Well, I got my Jag DP yesterday, but it won't install on my 8600. Apparently Apple did something to BootX and the kernel that broke Ryan Rempel's modified 10.1 BootX. Has anyone had success with other means of installing the DP? So far, it just locks up the machine when BootX tries to load...

I am glad I kept my OS 9 partition... well, I had to since I am running OS X unsupported. Anyways, NEVER type the following command: 'sudo mv (some item) /*' into the terminal. I managed to completely foobar my main partition, and even under the terminal it was impossible to move it back. The...

I was tinkering with TinyFugue under OS X, renaming the binary to TinyFugue.app. When I double-clicked it, it asked what app I want to use to open it. I chose the Terminal and now I can double-click it and launch it in the terminal with little fuss. However, all my apps when launched from the...

Anyone on an older machine actually use BeOS for PPC? I know Be eventually released a home edition that was free (at least for awhile I think), but it was Intel-only so I have been trying to figure out what BeOS is/was like. I got a DR8 CD given to me back when it was released, but by the...

Okay, this is starting to bug me... People keep claiming that certain OS 9 metadata is not used in OS X, yet whenever I download a PC-hosted .mpg through Hotline (which is a piece of crap, but that is another matter), it sets the type/creator to TYPE/CREA. Now when I open this using QT5, it...

This is a rather amazing discovery, although I haven't had the gall to test it out myself yet (I have 3 slots, 3 full, and I don't wanna lose my nice 5 button USB mouse to test this yet), this is pretty darn spiffy if what I suspect is true. CompUSA sells a very generic '3 port+1' Firewire...

I have been doing some video capture for awhile now with my 8600/300 (3 PCI slots). This is a combination software/hardware question, so here goes :) I am wondering what people's opinions are for the best codec through a combination of framerate/quality for capturing video. More...