Wincent Colaiuta's weblog: November 2005 Archives

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November 29, 2005

SpamSieve one year later

I've now been using SpamSieve for just over one year and I'm fairly happy with the performance of it.

November 26, 2005

ClamAV + clamassassin + procmail

I've been so pleased with the combination of ClamAV plus clamassassin plus procmail that I've decided to "upgrade" the recipes on the server so as to delete incoming virus-bearing messages on the server.

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November 15, 2005

Spotlight improvements

Not sure when this happened, but somewhere along the road to Mac OS X 10.4.3 Spotlight got a whole lot better.

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Best. Crash. Ever.

Here's another great entry for the famous "Involuntary Reboot Log".

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Posted by wincent at 3:11 AM

November 13, 2005

An Xcode feature request

Xcode has toolbar buttons for "Clean", "Clean All", "Build", "Build and Run" and so forth. Many, many times each day I find myself pressing "Clean" and then "Build" immediately afterwards. It would be a nice convenience and time saver if there was a "Clean and Build" button that combined the two operations, or failing that, if holding the Option key down while pressing the "Build" or "Build and Run" (or even the "Build and Debug") buttons could modify their behaviour to execute a clean before proceeding with the build.

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November 11, 2005

Xcode 2.2 and Universal Binary goodness

The top two items for me are:(1) Improvements in the handling of Universal Binaries. There are some new build settings which make it easier to produce binaries that will run natively on PowerPC machine (from version Mac OS X 10.2 and up)(2) Speed improvements when editing large files.

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More Cocoa articles , More Development articles

Posted by wincent at 2:20 PM

November 9, 2005

Some words of praise for Rackspace managed hosting

A few months ago I had some server troubles and switched to Rackspace managed hosting.

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