I ran a Maven build this morning and it broke. Strange, as I had not changed anything. Maven’s ability to simply break because of a change to a non-versioned dependency or even more arcane, a versioned dependency with a non-versioned dependency of it’s own (a transitive dependency) is legendary. So I thought that was the… Continue reading Holy Moly, Batman. Apple upgraded my Maven
Category: Mac OS X
Mac OS X Desktop Switching bug fixed by making Java 6 your default
As readers will know, Apple released Java 6 for 64 bit intel architectures this week. What you may not know, is that making it your first preference in the “Java Application Runtime Settings” “Java Preference” app in Utilities, fixes a nasty app switching bug you get when using spaces. That bug is that if you… Continue reading Mac OS X Desktop Switching bug fixed by making Java 6 your default
Adjusting the networking MTU on Mac OS X
My wife is newly involved with a Arbonne, a network selling cosmetics company. They set up in Australia a few months ago. She has an a website http://arbonnebrisbane.myarbonne.com.au . Anyway the web site did not work from Mac OS X or Linux from our home, only Windows (running in VM Ware). The problem was seen… Continue reading Adjusting the networking MTU on Mac OS X
Syncing your Mac with your Blackberry
I bought myself a BlackBerry 7100 a few weeks back. At the time someone said you could add it to iSync using PocketMac. I got around to looking into this yesterday. Talk about great timing. At Mac World 2006 San Francisco RIM announced they had licensed PocketMac for all BlackBerry users. While it was announced… Continue reading Syncing your Mac with your Blackberry
Digital Signing and Encryption of email on Linux and Mac OS X
Years ago I played with PGP – pretty good privacy, an open source crypto package from Phil Zimmerman. At the time, Phil copped a lot of heat from the NSA and others, concerned with the nefarious applications of crypto. I played around with signing my email and so on, but I upgraded my computer and… Continue reading Digital Signing and Encryption of email on Linux and Mac OS X