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Humility

Last week I sent a personal job off to a screen printer. Tee shirts for my wife's church. The next day my wife called me to tell me there was a problem. I called up Armond and he promptly told me that I forgot to…

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Half Right

Well, It turned out I was half right. My first big question was what endian the new Mac will be. This was answered by reading Apple's developer documentation. The new Macs will be little endian. Hmm, has any other platform in the history of computer…

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Apple and Intel

I just finished reading John Grubers latest article on the Apple/Intel story. I pretty much agree with what he is saying. It boils down to: "Whaa?". But what if Apple used an Intel coprocessor? Either an entire x86 or some new chip in addition to…

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Adobe Font Folders

Managing fonts on Mac OS X is hard. Much harder that it needs to be. By default there are three folders where fonts can reside. I am angry that Adobe decided to add additional font folders. These new font folders (one in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts and…

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