2007-08-10

Th-th-that's all Folks!

Groklaw has a good article explaining what the latest court ruling in SCO vs Novell means in detail. To sum up, SCO lost, Novell does indeed own the UnixWare and UNIX copyrights.

And SCO owes Novell big bucks for the licenses it sold Microsoft and Sun.

Sweet!

2007-07-24

sshd on iPhone

There is a nice little summary of pointers to how to get more unixy stuff installed on your iPhone at The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

2007-06-13

Cat Cam

J. Perthold has a very cool website explaining about his project to create a collar-mounted camera for his cat. He goes into detail about which camera he used, schematics of the custom board he made to control the camera and periodically take a picture. You even get to see a few days worth of the life of his indoor-outdoor cat, Mr. Lee.

2007-05-25

RubyCocoa 0.11.0 released

RubyCocoa 0.11.0 is out. Build Cocoa applications with Ruby. Download it from Sourceforge.

2007-05-21

Subversion scripts for Finder

Adam Brytek posted a list of AppleScripts for OS X Finder that allow you to do a bunch of convenient Subversion commands here.

The current rev supports

  • Add

  • Commit

  • Delete

  • Revert

  • Status

  • Update

2007-05-14

OSX process snapshots

Amit Singh posted details of how to make a snapshot of a running process - memory, registers, the works - here. He posted source code for a program that will make the snapshot, too.

The really cool thing is that you don't need to make changes to the program for his technique to work, and taking the snapshot doesn't force the running process to halt.

2007-05-09

More MacFUSE

MacFusion is an Open Source GUI for MacFUSE. It currently supports SSH filesystems and Secure FTP filesystems, but it has a plugin architecture so I expect to see more supported filesystems soon.

ProcFS for MacFUSE

Amit Singh has released procfs (with source) for OS X here. You'l need to have MacFUSE installed for this to work.

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