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VirtualPC_Services in the Virtual PC bundle has... 1,000 Views / 3 Replies  
VirtualPC_Services in the Virtual PC bundle has owner root and the setuid bit on. It's possible that the Jaguar Finder doesn't allow copying of bundles that contain files with their setuid bit on...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Aug 28, 2002 at 03:06 AM, in macOS
No, I voluntarily left the company to pursue my... 2,403 Views / 46 Replies  
No, I voluntarily left the company to pursue my Masters' degree (full-time). I think I was getting into a bit of a rut career-wise.
Posted by PipelineStall, on Aug 25, 2002 at 12:05 PM, in macOS
I can appreciate that you have valid concerns... 2,403 Views / 46 Replies  
I can appreciate that you have valid concerns with Mac OS X, and you are certainly entitled to state them. But I consider the statement that Apple's developers don't know how to program well, to be...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Aug 25, 2002 at 02:12 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 2,008 Views / 109 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">What makes you think I hate OS X? You can...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 31, 2002 at 10:18 PM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 2,008 Views / 109 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> OS X is unfinished. That's the problem. And...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 31, 2002 at 07:32 PM, in macOS
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> No, I'm talking about the state that the...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 31, 2002 at 01:12 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 2,008 Views / 109 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">How is it better? You're not actually trying to...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 30, 2002 at 03:16 PM, in macOS
You can also use the Multiprocessing Services API... 648 Views / 16 Replies  
You can also use the Multiprocessing Services API (in CoreServices) MPProcessors(). Eg:

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Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 14, 2002 at 08:21 PM, in Developer Center
I just downloaded the game, it's not too bad. ... 831 Views / 6 Replies  
I just downloaded the game, it's not too bad. The graphics could be improved, but it does play a decent game of checkers.

I played an interesting game against the adult player, which I won, but...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 10, 2002 at 08:35 PM, in Developer Center
If it runs significantly better in Jaguar than in... 570 Views / 4 Replies  
If it runs significantly better in Jaguar than in 10.1.5, this is indeed welcome news. I dislike having to reboot into Mac OS 9, every time I want to play WC III.
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 10, 2002 at 01:52 AM, in Gaming
It's not unusual to have multiple applications... 765 Views / 41 Replies  
It's not unusual to have multiple applications performing useful computations simultaneously. Jef Raskin claims that we're only able to pay attention to one thing at a time; and while that may be...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 8, 2002 at 02:48 PM, in macOS
I have a TiBook 667 (the first combo drive ones,... 881 Views / 29 Replies  
I have a TiBook 667 (the first combo drive ones, with the 16 MB Radeon Mobility) with 1 gig of RAM.

Under Mac OS X, it's slow at every resolution (even 640 x 480). It's not terrible, but I'm used...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 7, 2002 at 01:56 AM, in Gaming
It's a nice test, and the effort that went into... 1,946 Views / 55 Replies  
It's a nice test, and the effort that went into making it is certainly appreciated. :)

For a better demonstration, we need more raw pixels being pushed around (like in that Star Wars Gangsta...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 5, 2002 at 03:44 AM, in macOS
I think seanyepez meant reinstall Mac OS X, not... 974 Views / 8 Replies  
I think seanyepez meant reinstall Mac OS X, not just Warcraft III.

1) Try trashing Warcraft III's prefs.
2) Try zapping the PRAM.
3) As a last resort, re-install Mac OS X.

Also, you may...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 4, 2002 at 08:06 PM, in Mac Notebooks
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 1,946 Views / 55 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> Look at standalone SWFs on the Mac, they...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 3, 2002 at 09:25 PM, in macOS
Flash performance is indeed bad. For a good... 1,946 Views / 55 Replies  
Flash performance is indeed bad. For a good example, see the flash movie at: <a href="http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_1403"...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jul 2, 2002 at 11:47 PM, in macOS
In your setAllPixels function, try putting a... 2,043 Views / 20 Replies  
In your setAllPixels function, try putting a [graphImage recache] after you set the pixel values.
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jun 24, 2002 at 04:02 AM, in Developer Center
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Sorry, other than a cryptically named...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jun 20, 2002 at 02:55 AM, in Developer Center
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">NSString * string = [[NSString alloc]...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jun 15, 2002 at 01:46 PM, in Developer Center
Unless you're using an NSQuickDrawView, or... 876 Views / 4 Replies  
Unless you're using an NSQuickDrawView, or initialized your NSWindow with a Carbon WindowRef, I don't believe that there is a way.

What are you trying to do? If you want to use some of your...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jun 15, 2002 at 12:43 PM, in Developer Center
I don't think you can change the permissions of... 978 Views / 6 Replies  
I don't think you can change the permissions of every file on your system by changing that of the root directory itself, unless you click on the "apply" button for applying to subdirectories.
...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 21, 2002 at 10:40 PM, in macOS
If you look at the /etc/sudoers file in a clean... 978 Views / 6 Replies  
If you look at the /etc/sudoers file in a clean Mac OS X installation, you'll see that it has read privileges for owner and group (ie: 440). 666 means that anyone can read or write to the file...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 21, 2002 at 08:05 PM, in macOS
There's may be an easier way, but you can... 859 Views / 16 Replies  
There's may be an easier way, but you can subclass NSCell and override the drawInteriorWithFrame function. Then in this function, you can draw a gray background and do whatever else you want.

Of...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 21, 2002 at 07:18 PM, in Developer Center
I don't know off-hand what is causing your Carbon... 491 Views / 4 Replies  
I don't know off-hand what is causing your Carbon apps to launch in Classic, as I know little about AppleScript. I suspect LaunchServices is being passed some improper flags or something, but don't...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 20, 2002 at 02:46 AM, in Developer Center
As a former developer on the Mac OS X Classic... 3,901 Views / 13 Replies  
As a former developer on the Mac OS X Classic team at Apple, I can tell you that the Classic environment will most certainly NOT run without Mac OS 9 installed. :)

Without your Mac OS 9 System...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 20, 2002 at 02:36 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
It's asking for your Mac OS X administrator... 519 Views / 1 Replies  
It's asking for your Mac OS X administrator login/password. Basically VPC has to change the permissions of some of the components that run along side Virtual PC.

Occasionally, VPC is unable to...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 18, 2002 at 09:49 PM, in Applications
That's interesting. So the pipeline didn't stall... 864 Views / 32 Replies  
That's interesting. So the pipeline didn't stall when an instruction had a dependency on an older instruction, that hadn't had its results written back to registers yet. :D

(Sorry, I just saw...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 11, 2002 at 12:53 AM, in macOS
It's unlikely that any 64 bit or G5 specific code... 1,120 Views / 58 Replies  
It's unlikely that any 64 bit or G5 specific code would actually go into a Jaguar sent to developers, and even there was, it would be fairly difficult to find it. I hardly think there will be a kext...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 9, 2002 at 07:36 PM, in macOS
If the archives are tarred or gzipped; you can... 610 Views / 32 Replies  
If the archives are tarred or gzipped; you can use gnutar, gzip, etc from the Terminal. See the man pages.
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 8, 2002 at 10:26 PM, in macOS
Both PC133, and DDR using both edges of a 133 Mhz... 1,304 Views / 66 Replies  
Both PC133, and DDR using both edges of a 133 Mhz clock have the same frequency clock, but DDR is theoretically twice as fast because it can transfer a word of memory twice as often.

Let me give...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 3, 2002 at 03:21 PM, in Mac Desktops
hayesk, On PC133 when you make an access to... 1,304 Views / 66 Replies  
hayesk,

On PC133 when you make an access to memory, you normally are only able to read/write one word per clock cycle. In other words, you can read/write 133 million words (theoretically) a...
Posted by PipelineStall, on May 3, 2002 at 01:35 PM, in Mac Desktops
There's that, along with the fact that gcc for... 648 Views / 10 Replies  
There's that, along with the fact that gcc for PPC is slower than molasses going uphill on a cold day. :)

I just converted a CFM CodeWarrior app to a Mach-O one built with ProjectBuilder (yes,...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 24, 2002 at 10:49 PM, in macOS
Have you tried putting in a .forward file anyway?... 423 Views / 3 Replies  
Have you tried putting in a .forward file anyway? Who knows, maybe for some reason your .procmailrc file isn't being read.
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 21, 2002 at 05:17 PM, in macOS
Looking at your original code (the first... 765 Views / 18 Replies  
Looking at your original code (the first message):

1) require_noerr is a macro that states if the value of the first argument is not equal to noErr, jump to the label specified in the second...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 19, 2002 at 01:07 PM, in Developer Center
Seems that fixing those problems exposed a bunch... 765 Views / 18 Replies  
Seems that fixing those problems exposed a bunch of other ones.

This would be difficult to fix without looking at your header files, what header files you're including, etc. It sounds like you...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 19, 2002 at 01:00 AM, in Developer Center
By removing the semicolon, and fixing your... 765 Views / 18 Replies  
By removing the semicolon, and fixing your brackets, you will be passing 6 arguments. IE: The statement should be:

InstallWindowEventHandler(window ,...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 18, 2002 at 02:47 PM, in Developer Center
This is pretty obvious, given the actual error... 765 Views / 18 Replies  
This is pretty obvious, given the actual error message here. :)

You're passing 1 argument to InstallWindowEventHandler and it wants 6. You have a semicolon after your NewEventHandlerUPP call. ...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 17, 2002 at 11:58 PM, in Developer Center
Since it sounds like the purpose of your... 468 Views / 7 Replies  
Since it sounds like the purpose of your assignment is not to write your own hashing function, but to perform the task at hand (6 degrees of Kevin Bacon), you could use the MD5 hash (check the man...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Apr 17, 2002 at 03:12 AM, in Developer Center
I also had some problems (likely related) when I... 461 Views / 2 Replies  
I also had some problems (likely related) when I tried to play a DVD. After about 5 - 10 minutes of play, the movie would freeze, and I would get an error of type -36 (couldn't read DVD movie data -...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Feb 3, 2002 at 05:45 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Problems burning CDs on TiBook with Combo Drive 461 Views / 2 Replies  
I seem to be having a few problems burning CDs on my TiBook (667 with combo drive).

During burns (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Toast Titanium 5.1.1), the burn will sometimes "freeze" during the...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Feb 1, 2002 at 09:31 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I just bought a Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical. ... 472 Views / 6 Replies  
I just bought a Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical. It has two optical sensors, which is supposed to give it better tracking. I chose it because it has a nice shape, and the color matches my TiBook...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 31, 2002 at 10:49 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
It really depends what you use your computer for.... 674 Views / 16 Replies  
It really depends what you use your computer for. The iMac is a fine machine for most people. But if you think you'll want to replace the video card in the future, or run a higher resolution...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 31, 2002 at 07:04 PM, in Mac Desktops
Well, undoubtedly it will shorten the life of the... 818 Views / 29 Replies  
Well, undoubtedly it will shorten the life of the hard drive. And it puts more strain on your battery since you will have to recharge it more often.

My philosophy is, I have AppleCare. So if the...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 31, 2002 at 06:46 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I just went into the lab to see what the... 818 Views / 29 Replies  
I just went into the lab to see what the situation was with the PowerBook G4 with the 30 gig drive. Same "clunking/clicking" noise. I'd never noticed it before, because the room is so noisy. But...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 31, 2002 at 01:53 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I just received my PowerBook G4 667 yesterday. ... 818 Views / 29 Replies  
I just received my PowerBook G4 667 yesterday. It has the 48 gig IBM Travelstar drive.

I noticed that there is a periodic sound from the hard drive - it could be interpreted as coke bottles...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 30, 2002 at 07:45 PM, in Mac Notebooks
We have virtually nothing left on the employee... 479 Views / 13 Replies  
We have virtually nothing left on the employee purchase plan (QPromo is not running now, but the normal "friends/family" discount is still there).

The PowerMacs are there, as is the 12 inch 600...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 11, 2002 at 02:46 PM, in Mac Notebooks
1) Who is making the journey this year? I'll... 1,688 Views / 53 Replies  
1) Who is making the journey this year?

I'll be there. I'm one the Apple booth staffers.

2) How long you staying?

Tues - Fri. I live within driving distance.

3) This your first expo?
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 4, 2002 at 08:26 PM, in MacNN Lounge
MacWorld countdown timer + Apple web page checker 518 Views / 2 Replies  
I posted this on the AppleInsider forums, but since many MacNN people don't read AI, I'm posting it here. Apologies for the spam.

I've written a simple little utility that does two things.

1) ...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Jan 4, 2002 at 08:09 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Do you have multiple partitions or volumes? If... 520 Views / 3 Replies  
Do you have multiple partitions or volumes? If you installed iTunes on a partition other than your main one, it's possible that the iPod kernel extension was not installed properly. It's a bug in...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Dec 25, 2001 at 07:54 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Precisely how is it possible for software to... 635 Views / 16 Replies  
Precisely how is it possible for software to "nullify" dead pixels? :)

Dead pixels aren't caused by anything to do with software. EG: A bug where garbage data is written to the frame buffer,...
Posted by PipelineStall, on Dec 16, 2001 at 10:45 PM, in Mac Desktops
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