Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Two weeks ago my friend Mario and I visited Lippstadt, the town of our school days. The occassion was the 20 year high school reunion of the Ostendorf Gymnasium. I felt a mixture of anticipation and apprehension when we arrived at the Goldener Hahn. But after sighting the first familiar faces I began to relax. [...]
Apple has released another update for Mac OS X Leopard yesterday. As usual it fixes a lot of security problems and bugs. Unfortunately it also breaks the development environment, and not for the first time. The update included new shared libraries e.g. version 0.11.8 of pixman. The related libtool archives however were not updated. As [...]
After my LDAP server stopped working I had to re-configure my Mac to use NIS which caused me a lot of problems under Mac OS X in the past. But it seems that Apple actually fixed NIS support in Mac OS X Leopard. During the two days I used NIS as the directory service on [...]