Longtime Apple developers probably know this intuitively, but I needed some time to figure it out: When CVS-ing files with a resource fork, you must not use the /usr/bin/cvs that ships with OS X!
Because Apple used to separate data and metadata, most files in the pre OS X era had a data fork and a [...]
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Kamen got the book Python für Kids. To enable him to use the book on OS X, I wanted to setup the Python environment on the Mac as on the PC: Install IDLE and, to hide the differences between integer and floating point math, configure to use the new division.
Installing IDLE [...]
A friend’s PC had lost its ability to dual boot (Windows 2000 for work and Windows 98 for games). I had installed BootMagic to switch operating systems some years ago and it worked fine until it was broken this month during some harddisk cleanup.
I completed the cleanup of the Win98 partition with a new installation. [...]
Because Gimp 2.0 doesn’t support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.
The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:
ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency
xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
png2ico did the trick [...]
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I'm Peter Steiner; I live in Bern, Switzerland, and work at SIX Card Solutions in Biel/Bienne.
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