An update to OS X that is not only stable and fast, but incorporates new features both pulled back from iOS and to further push it ahead of Windows 8.
The ability to disable that god damned Mac App Store updates notification without having to actually update or open the Mac App Store.
Port UIKit back to OS X so that I can stop reading tweets from people bitching about how old and dated AppKit is.
Retina screens for every Mac.
A new Mac Pro. Finally.
Air Drop support …
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I got all of this running on OS X 10.7.
First, you'll need Java to run Bukkit. I installed Java SE Development Kit 7u21 .
Next, you need to install Bukkit. Note, you must use a version of Bukkit that is compatible with your version of the Minecraft client. For me, that meant installing the latest, development version of Bukkit. See here for more information: mkdir -p ~/Local/bukkit_server
cd ~/Local/bukkit_server
curl -L http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/get/02122_1.5.2-R0.2/craftbukkit-dev.jar …
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…Install GnuPG. Debian users can apt-get install gnupg , OS X users can use GPG Tools: https://gpgtools.org/
Login to the Customer Area: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/orders
Scroll down to the "Files" section.
Download the "sha1sums.txt" and "sha1sums.txt.asc" files that pertain to the version of Phusion Passenger Enterprise that you're currently running. Ensure that both files are in the same directory.
Import the …
Bonus: Mac OS X
If you happen to be debugging a stuck process on Mac OS X, check out this sample utility (a handy tool that ships with OS X). It will automate the collection of multiple C-level backtraces, aggregate them together and print out a nicely formatted call tree report showing where the stuck process is spending most of its time.
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Recent versions of Google Chrome on OS X mangle native input buttons. I don't know precisely when it started but no amount of CSS brute-force seems to correct the text alignment. Have you found a work-around? Do you know a little birdie on the Chrome team?
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These issues are also addressed but only affect the graphical installers for Linux and Mac OS X (note used by chef-server):
[ CVE-2013-1902] - the use of predictable filenames in / tmp
[ CVE-2013-1903] - insecure passing of superuser passwords to a script
More details in the PostgreSQL release announcement:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/
This fixes the following issues:
CHEF-4060 Upgrade PostgreSQL 9.2.4
Bug Fixes:
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Last week I blogged some Vagrant tips and pretty much jinxed the run I had in the past months.
Here's how:
I decided to upgrade to Vagrant 1.1, which broke bento: the current bento master is incompatible with Vagrant 1.1. But selecting the right rbenv env and installing the latest available Vagrant gem (inside the rbenv environment) fixed it.
My base box build, but for some reason, the guest addition setup broke and while it worked on Mac OSX, it broke the image completely on Ubuntu. Don't ask me why.
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…NSDictionary Syntaxes Mean Less " Yak Shaving" for iOS and OS X Developers , there's a much nicer way to do it: element = theArray[theIndex];
In AFNetworking Crash Course , where you see code like this: daysWeather = [upcomingWeather objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
path = [[paths objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"WeatherHTTPClientImages/"];
change it to this: daysWeather = upcomingWeather[indexPath.row];
path = [paths[0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"WeatherHTTPClientImages/"]; …
Worked around an OS X Unix domain socket bug. Fixes issue #854 .
Out-of-Band Garbage Collection now works properly when the application has disabled garbage collection. Fixes issue #859 .
Fixed support for /usr/bin/python on OS X. Fixes issue #855 .
Fixed looping-without-sleeping in the ApplicationPool garbage collector if PassengerPoolIdleTime is set to 0. Fixes issue #858 .
Fixed some process memory usage measurement bugs.
Fixed process …
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