Writing Archive

Flock

Okay okay… i admit it i give in.
Being a stuborn russian i hesitated using flock. But being bored at 3am i thought i’d try it. I heard about flock from a mate of mine mavjones (you can’t really trust him though ). Anyway like i said i gave it a spin. Conclusion?
FLOCK IS [...]

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Opal vs. Mac OS X (Darwin)

So i am still trying to compile OPAL (a programming langugage that we use at TU Berlin) on my MacBook. The problem is that the compiler gets linker errors
RussoBook:~/opal/ocs russo$ ./configure –build=i386

checking how to produce position-independent code…
-fPIC checking how to link shared objects…
configure: WARNING: cannot figure out how to link shared objects (ignored) checking for [...]

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Localizing and adding proofing tools for Mac OS X

“Russification” (or localization as the case may be) of your Mac OS X is really quite simple. All you have to is click
Apple > System Preferences > International
Under the language tab all you need to do is drag Russian (or whichever langugae you want your menus to appear in) to the top of the list. [...]

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Mac Apps

Ok so if going all out on a list of Apps (that i can’t live without) i will write it here in full (alphabetical):

Adium
AdiumBook
CoconutBattery
Colloquy (nice gui IRC Client)
Comic Life
CyberDuck(nice ftp client)
Darwinports (gcc, wget etc.)
Divx (very popular free codec)
Firefox (everyone loves the original)
Fugu (scp client)
Google Earth
iAlertU (cool remote app)
iStumbler (ap discovery app)
Microsoft Office 2004
Onyx (optimizes your [...]

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Mac OS Thoughts

Well i have to say this is a very enjoyable OS. It comes with a lot of nice programs that I’m really enjoying. here’s a couple of things i insist on checking out.

Colloquy (IRC Client)
Skype Mac Video (beta, but works with iSight)
Adium (multi protocol IM client)
CyberDuck
iAlertU

Out of those i would definately insist on trying iAlertU. [...]

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