IntelliJ 7 for Mac still doesn’t pick up external file changes
IntelliJ, the extremely good Java IDE from Jet Brains will often fail to pick up external file changes; for example performing a subversion “svn up” on your source code. The problem can be fixed by...
View ArticleRestarting the AWT Native Event Thread
I recently upgraded my OS X Java development environment to the Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 release. After the upgrade I encountered the following error when running code which relied upon the AWT...
View ArticleWireshark capture under Mac OS X
Wireshark is a free, open source network protocol analyzer. It can be used as a graphical interface when viewing tcpdump files. Alternatively, it can be used to capture live network traffic. For this,...
View ArticleMac OS X, VPN and DNS problems
Recently I had a weird problem on my laptop. Web browsing was slow and certain lookups failed altogether. The failures were exclusively associated with nominet.org.uk domain names, specifically...
View ArticleVim on the Mac
I’ve been a vim user for many years. More recently I have been mainly working on a Mac, but the version of vim for OS X was never very good. It felt like a Linux application that had been ported to...
View ArticleParallels slowing OS X to a crawl on startup – problem solved
I use a MacBook Pro at work, but of course there are always one or two Windows applications that I need to run too. Consequently, I recently installed Parallels to allow me to run these both in the...
View Articleipv6 It Just Works :)
With the impending exhaustion of IPV4 address space (currently predicted as 17 Oct 2011 http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html ) it seems every networking event these days has coverage of ipv6,...
View ArticleUsing gqlplus with Instant Client on Mac OS X
I need to use Oracle’s SQL*Plus quite often from my Mac but Oracle’s support for OS X is sketchy to say the least. You can’t install the proper client on Intel machines, so you have to use the...
View ArticleApple and libnet
A lot of people I know get very excited by Apples. In the interests of spreading my bets, one of my machines is an Apple. Maybe it’s just me, but I just don’t get the usability benefits that everyone...
View ArticleA Subversion oddity on MacOS X
I’ve recently been struggling to check out a large subversion repository on my Mac. Each time I tried I’d get an error like: svn: Can't open file '..../.svn/tmp/some_path/some_file.svn-base': No such...
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