Category Archives: Mac OS X

PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

PGP is about to release a new version of it’s PGP Whole Disk Encryption product. This version will fully support the Mac, including the boot disk. I’m looking for a full disk encryption system for a long time now, as … Continue reading →

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Back from USA

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

Well, I’m back from another WOWODC and WWDC. I’m still really tired, but some quick notes: As David LeBer already mentioned, Pascal did an amazing job organizing WOWODC all by himself. Great room (a bit cold on the first day … Continue reading →

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Accessing Mac virtual hosts from a Parallels VM

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

I finally moved to an Intel machine. Despite the dramatic speed improvement in everything Java-related, namely Eclipse, there’s another big advantage: being able to run IE on Windows using a virtual machine. Unfortunately, that’s something every web developer must do … Continue reading →

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drawImage performance on Leopard

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Miguel Arroz

A not very fast but handy way to downscale images in a WebObjects application is using Java 2D APIs, with code like this: BufferedImage reducedImage = new BufferedImage(newX, newY, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D g = reducedImage.createGraphics(); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_SPEED); … Continue reading →

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Leopard tech talk, Lisbon

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Miguel Arroz

Yesterday I spent all day in the first ever Apple developer event in Portugal. Apple carried out a Leopard Tech Talk in Lisbon, where portuguese developers could learn about some of the new stuff in Leopard, including 64 bit programming and Core … Continue reading →

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Testing memory

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Miguel Arroz

I wrote some days ago about badblocks for testing a hard drive surface. Now, the same for memory. As I said, I bought a second-hand PowerMac G5 to replace my old G4. When I got the new machine, I run … Continue reading →

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Mac-compatible ethernet card

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Miguel Arroz

For those of you who need an ethernet card that works with Mac OS X, this may be a useful tip: Mac OS X has a built-in driver for the RealTek RTL8139 chip. I looked arround and found this Netgear … Continue reading →

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Bad blocks? badblocks!

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Miguel Arroz

There are not many things I miss from Mac OS 9. But there’s one that was really useful: the ability to test a hard drive surface. OS 9 disk formatter (I don’t even recall it’s name) had a “Test Disk” … Continue reading →

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