Category Archives: osx

Macbook Pro doing the impossible

Posted on May 30, 2008 by peter

I was debugging a Java application for a customer this afternoon when I noticed something fairly unique in my activity monitor: I knew that Java can be memory hungry from time to time but this exceeds everything I’ve seen before … Continue reading →

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OSX Firmware update experience

Posted on July 5, 2007 by peter

Somehow the following message I got from OSX after running the updater didn’t manage to ease my mind: I didn’t experience any problems… sure… but I felt the adrenaline rise!

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VI and ITerm

Posted on June 14, 2007 by peter

Recently I installed iTerm and I must say that I’m very pleased with it’s performance. However after the latest update my arrow keys stopped working when using VI. Lucky me, the fix wasn’t to hard, I added ‘TERM=linux’ to my … Continue reading →

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Diff & Named pipes in OSX?

Posted on May 29, 2007 by peter

previously I wrote about using named pipes to avoid temporary files when working from the CLI. The odd thing is that the following command seems to work on bash/linux but responds with an error message (curl: (23) Failed writing body) … Continue reading →

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OSX Keyboard speed

Posted on April 24, 2007 by peter

The most annoying ‘feature’ of my OSX system used to be the speed of the cursor when moved using the arrow keys. Not anymore… OSX seems to have a global configuration (yes, all you macheadz probably did this the first … Continue reading →

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Grafflebaffle

Posted on February 19, 2007 by peter

Ever since I received my Macbook Pro I’ve been thinking about which software to run for drawing diagrams (which is something I have to do quite often). I’m not talking elaborate UML diagrams, ‘conceptual’ drawings… the stuff you would typically … Continue reading →

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Vista vs. OsX

Posted on January 30, 2007 by peter

With the launch of Windows Vista today I was reminded of a nice video I came across a while ago: The widget/gadget thingy kept me thinking…. I just had to look it up! Here are the definitions from the Oxford … Continue reading →

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OsXcited again

Posted on January 26, 2007 by peter

Finally, I got a call about the fact that my laptop was ready for pick-up! I Jumped in my car and endured 90 minutes of traffic jams… but it’s back! The service center managed to ‘solve’ the problem by replacing … Continue reading →

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New laptop!

Posted on December 20, 2006 by peter
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