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I really am. I got an iPhone 3G.

Mitigating factors are that the camera is really awesome, and also that I got root on it, voiding my warranty a mere fifteen minutes after unboxing it.

I just installed Leopard on my Mac Book Pro, waiting to see how all the shit I have installed in /opt and /usr/local would survive before taking the actual leap with my Dual G5, which I still use for a bunch of development stuff that I don’t want to break. Yet.

So far so good. The under-the-hood features are actually great, and I pretty much enjoy the tabs in terminal. About damn time. I have yet to see if special keys work by default without me hacking it up. Oh and dtrace has a really fruity front-end in the developper tools. Fairly awesome if you ask me.

Anyways, the point is, I was finding Coverflow amusing for 3 whole seconds before switching back to the usual view, and decided to browse the network. By the way, this now actually works now. So, if you pay attention to the actual icon used for Windows machines on the network…

Now that’s fairly ballsy. Not too professional, but I chuckled nonetheless.

I just woke up, glanced tenderly at my Mac Book Pro next to my bed, and plugged the cord in. I pushed the button on the battery that is supposed to tell me in what condition the charge is. Nothing occured.

I power up the laptop, and see this.

For those not speaking french, it means “No battery available”.

Fuck. And I’m about to go on a trip to toronto. The battery of my older Powerbook died the same way in the very same outlet. What the fuck is wrong with this power outlet, I ask you? Damn.

If you have an Intel Mac, you already know what Parallels is and what wonders it can accomplish. Virtualization is awesome, especially with Intel VT, of course.

One new feature of the latest version that came out last week would be Coherence Mode. It is similar to running X11 applications “rootless”. I’m not sure of how to describe it. To cite David Young from StuffOnFire, who describes it in much better words than I would:

Have I ever mentioned how freaking awesome Parallels Coherence mode is? Probably not, because it’s only been out for a week. Well, it’s freaking awesome. What do you run Windows for? Visual Studio? Office? You put the taskbar on auto-hide and it’s just like using a really ass-tastic Mac application, like something made by Adobe. And it runs on your Boot Camp partition! Hell yeah. If there were a Mac Software Engineering Team of the Year award, I’d suggest that the Parallels guys get it.

I just wanted to mention how awesome it was really. No acerbic rant about stuff, or witty comments, really. Just a plain “Oh shit it’s awesome, I want people to know this and belch, fart and shit their pants at the same time when they see this”.

I’ll post a screenshot later on.

By Sithis, where is my gcc 3 for x86?

/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3-fast/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus

That explains why there’s a crapload of things I can’t build on my intel Mac.

C compiler cannot create executables, yeah well, that makes sense. I guess I could possibly cross compile, but that’s too much hassle. I’ll just have to wait for someone to update the ports.

So if you’re wondering why that occurs to you, it’s because there’s no gcc 3.3 for x86 on OS X 10.4. You have to use gcc 4.

iCal. Such a nice calendering application that is, and a pioneer in the vastly used ics calendar format. Is it the ultimate calendar ever? Well, almost.

What drove me insane was that, while you can publish your calendars to a WebDAV server for others to see and subscribe to, you cannot edit the calendars that are published — unless you have a .mac account. While I sincerly hope this will be in Leopard, I’m not holding my breath.

You see, I run Linux on my desktop at home, and Mac OS X on my laptop, for work. I just wanted to find a simple way to share my calendar between the two machines, and to be able to edit them on any machine.

And it just so happens I just have the solution. Read the rest of this entry »