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Lion ships with an app called Wi-Fi diagnostics. It allows you to monitor Wi-Fi networks your computer is connected to and collect various kinds of information. This utility could be very useful for finding problems or doing research on your Wi-Fi…
24 August 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
One of our readers pointed out a hiccup on Apple's security settings for Apple ID passwords. While Apple ID passwords usually require a mix of capital and lowercase letters, this issue removes that condition. Earlier this year Apple changed the password…
24 August 2011Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
When we recently detailed how to boost the storage space in a MacBook Airwith a replacement solid state drive module, some readers asked what it would be like to swap the hard drive in an older MacBook with a similarly speedy SSD. We decided to…
22 August 2011Planet Ubuntu
My wife wasn't feeling well today, so I spent an inordinate amount of time inside, divided pretty evenly between tending to her, reading and tooling around on the internet. Hacker News had an item about Rasta.js. It's a simple javascript key/value store.…
22 August 2011Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, A quick tip on how you can use a pattern to set the background of one or more views in an iOS app. To illustrate the technique I have created a simple pattern (bluewhite.png) that is…
22 August 2011Planet Mozilla
Casting a pointer (like Foo *) to a reference (like Foo &) via reinterpret_cast or a C-style cast probably doesn't do what you want. References ("refs") exist so that you can make libraries with user-defined constructs that "feel like" a built-in…
22 August 2011Planet KDE
I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function…
22 August 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Dear Dev Juice, Can you help me generate a unique identifier for my iOS apps? I don't want to rely on using UDIDs anymore. I'd say why but then you'd have to shoot me. Watm-ever Dear Watm-ever That sounds dire. Let's avoid the violence and focus on the…
21 August 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Reading the headlines today, you'll see the usual exaggeration of half-understood factoids bubble out from today's iOS 5 beta 6 release. Thank goodness for that NDA, huh? As reported by our sister site TechCrunch, Apple is deprecating the use of UDIDs as…
20 August 2011Planet Debian
Linux 2.6.24, released more than three years ago, introduced two very interesting features: PID and network namespaces. They allow us to create a process that does not share the same PID namespace or the same network namespace than other processes. These…
19 August 2011