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ARM EABI Toolchain
I’ve put up some instructions on how to build an ARM EABI toolchain on Mac OS X machines using CodeSourcery’s versions of GCC, GDB, Newlib & binutils.
Hope they’re helpful to someone who hasn’t been able to get a toolchain going on their Mac.
Windows on VirtualBox 2.1.2
Having just grabbed the latest version of VirtualBox as well as the Windows 7 beta, I thought I’d run a benchmark or two of Windows running on top of VirtualBox 2.1.2 with GeekBench. Overall the performance isn’t too shabby, with numbers similar for Windows 7 and XP:
Windows 7 Beta: 2697
Windows XP: 2628
Linux Host (Ubuntu 8.10 [...]
US Government Not Based in Christianity?
I’ll not wander too far into this territory, since this topic invokes both religion and politics. More than once in the past couple of months, I’ve heard claims from members of the religious right that the United States or its laws were based on Christianity. I’ve also both read and for some time believed that [...]
Nitpick
While I certainly cannot claim perfection in my own use of the English language, I have learned that first impressions are important. Why does this page ask for a form of information (age) that one cannot provide with the form (date of birth).
Modifying Properties in Address Book with AppleScript
I’ve been syncing my contacts and calendars with a Zimbra server as of late so that I can get synchronization with my iPhone. While things have generally gone quite well, and most of the process has been easy, I have hit a hurdle or two, and I thought I’d write about one of them.
I’ve got [...]
A Little Old But Neat: Processing in Javascript
John Reisg has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript: Processing.js
DTrace Scripts
It doesn’t look like new scripts have been added lately, but I just ran across this nice little collection of dtrace scripts and one-liners. There’s a special section for Mac OS X 10.5 compatible scripts.
Nice Response to the Beer == Worse Science Paper
I’ve still not gotten around to reading the actual paper, but slashdot today mentioned some additional analysis of the paper correlating increase beer drinking with reduced scientific success (measured in terms of publications and citations). My initial thought after reading the first of many posts about this that appeared around the internet was as [...]
Safari Performance Jump w/ 3.1
Wow. The new Safari build has significantly improved JavaScript performance in Apple’s SunSpider benchmark.
Older Safari 3: 8537.4ms ± 0.3%
Safari 3.1: 3152.6ms ± 0.2%
The new Firefox beta is no slouch either:
Firefox 3 beta 4: 5080.4ms ± 5.7%
Firefox 2.0.0.12: 15463.6ms ± 5.7%
Full results after the jump.
ZFS
So, I know there have been numerous blog posts gushing about ZFS.
This is another one of those posts.I’ve got “experimental” versions of the filesystem going on a number of Mac hosts, and now on my FreeBSD NAS device. Aside from having been able to cause the OS X version to kernel panic a number of [...]
