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Be very careful about BlueJ, it behaves very odd on Mac OS X machines. It runs a VM by itself (hmmm... sharing, anyone?) and uses a lot of resources which it doesn't need (using 50% of the system resources when in the background is not good). Further it will not dispose of any objects created...

that the compiler is objective-c++ compatible means that it will allow a mix of objective-c (which is a superset och standard C) and C++ (which is another superset of standard C). This is as far as I know the only compiler to do this. Yes it means that you can program Cocoa-programs in C++...

One should use the languages for what they're good at. It's not fair to compare Perl, Python and Objective-C, they are not into the same game. - Perl is for working with texts. That's why it's so good for writing CGI-scripts. - Python is object-oriented duct tape. Use it to connect...

to change the keymapping in the full screen darwin mode you get when you log as >console I think you can use the command xmodmap, this is the way to do it in Linux and probably most other UNIX versions. Try "man xmodmap" or search the web for it. theo

I agree that God would program C++ if he existed. He would prbably be the only one to understand it. To me, C++ is a too complex languages with too many ways of doing the same thing wrong. I personally prefer Java as the language of choice, but I realize that it is not the ideal platform, C++...

after poking around a bit I think you're right... look at this: [localhost:/bin] theo% ls -l sh zsh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 465476 Jul 11 23:56 sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 465476 Jul 11 23:56 zsh sh and zsh are exactly the same size, this couldn't be a coincidence... theo...

I have a package of classes in Java which is called "net.iconara.app.MLib.commands". I would like to get a listing of the classes that it contains, from within a Java program, much like I can get a listing when running JavaBrowser. The package contains commands that act as extensions which...

hate to be a smartass, but this will help: in the flavour of tcsh that is the default in mac os x, the PATH variable is not a environment variable but a shell variable and should thus be modified with the "set" keyword, and not with "setenv". Using "setenv" would create an environment...

just remember to open the actual binary and not the app-package: [localhost:~] theo% open /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/MacOS/Chess (hmmm, this failed for me... odd) Theo

Yes, there is and no, there is none. Netscape 6 is Mozilla 0.6. Check out mozilla.org or search for Fizilla or Mozilla at versiontracker.com. Fizilla is the Mac OS X version of Mozilla. Last version was 0.9 (Fizilla 5/14), and much better than Netscape 6. Theo

i tried, all that happened was that the system stopped for a while while starting AppleTalk when starting up. I still coudn't see any AppleTalk servers on the network. theo

[localhost:~] theo% cat /etc/afpovertcp.cfg # # /etc/afpovertcp.cfg is used to set the system-wide AFP defaults # for the LibcAT AppleTalk library. # # Copyright 1998 Apple Computer, Inc. # # If this file exists, TCP/IP will be used as the default transport # protocol for AFP...

I have a swedish keyboard and a problem: in the terminal it is not possible to write a tilde (~). The tilde is very useful since it represents the home directory (cd ~/Documents means go to the documents dir in my home dir, saves a lot of typing). Does this apply to all keyboards or just...

The documentation from Apple concerning the Java Bridge is all but satisfactory - it is even faulty; so I started this thread to get the discussion going. I wish to know how to make the most out of the Java Bridge. I realised how lacking the documentation is on this point when I tried to...

for optimum hard drive performance you should have at least 10% of the drive free. and that problably means before VM... but since you can't decide how big the VM should be on X, say 10% + twice your RAM free. don't trash your drive, save som swapping space on it. theo

Apple Dev Team (well, the NeXT boys) are the best. You may argue on and on whether C, Obj-C or Java is the fastest language, but it doesn't matter that much; with Cocoa and with Java-bridges, native methods and the command line your can write whatever you want: A cocoa application with the...

I find myself having to resort to do things as root when handling my system. It is a rather schizoid system running both X and 9 (for DVD, DivX, Video and CD-burning). However, I try to limit my use of the harddrive to the directory "Mac OS 9" when using Mac OS 9, yet sometimes this is not...

3ivX has been released as a delta 3-version for Mac OS X, it only supports playback as of now, but there will probably be a encoder out soon. (www.3ivx.com) I have looked for DVD ripping utilities for Mac OS X, but found none. Even though X does not support DVD-playback it should be possible...

My X-box keeps shutting down the file sharing. I start it, then a couple of hours later it switches off silently, often I don't notice until I try to connect to it (I use my X-box as a file-server at work, since my new computer (TiB) doesn't have that much hd-space). When file sharing has...

I tried with a user that was not an administrator and it was a no go, I could not do the things described above. I think that the default user being an administrator confuses people. theo