TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Some newer MacBook Pros have been packing dual graphics cards for a while now, with the ability to dynamically switch between them -- integrated for battery life and discrete for performance. It's often tricky to know which card is currently in use as the…
12 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
This small hint may be of some help when you have to reinstall Lion from a recovery partition in a network environment that does not have an active DHCP server. In this case, a small intervention in the Terminal is required. Once you've booted into the…
9 September 2011Planet Mozilla
CSS animations are hot and a lot of experimentation is going on. A cool new feature of animations is the steps() option which allows you to cut an animation into steps instead of a transition from one state to another in one go. While this seems…
9 September 2011Planet Debian
A commentor on my previous post asked why I think MySQL is a toy. I've actually blogged about that a number of times, but when wanting to point that out, I found that most of those posts point out just one thing, rather than having one post that…
8 September 2011Planet KDE
Since the beginning of the git migration there was one issue that suffered for lack of resolution due to competing needs: to split or not to split the repositories? On the plus side of splitting the repositories, we get smaller repositories that are more…
8 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
Before Lion it was possible to run an external display off a laptop and have the internal display disabled, even if you opened the lid. This can be useful for a myriad of reason including energy saving and better wifi reception. With Lion the internal…
8 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
I've found a way to get a full Lion installer by capturing the installer files that the recovery partition downloads. This seems to work on my 2008 MBP machine with the App Store version of Lion installed on it, but it should be of particular interest to…
7 September 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The TIOBE index is a chart of what have been rated as the most popular programming languages in the world, according to various searches online, the number of experts in those languages, and even software output (though it is very certainly not a strict…
7 September 2011MacOSXHints.com
FileVault2 is an excellent addition to Lion. Amusingly though, Apple has done exactly the same thing as Microsoft did when it introduced Bitlocker in Vista (which it corrected with Windows 7). Apple has made it easy to encrypt the system drive, and…
7 September 2011Planet Mozilla
7 September 2011