A new SelfSolved solution is up for perusal. The problem I tried to solve: After compiling Subversion 1.6.2 from source on OS X 10.5 Leopard, the compilation is apparently successful, but svn dies when it tries to connect to the network for the first time. Crash log reports that symbols are missing from libneon.dylib. Crash [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2009
finding a fault-tolerant HTML parser for iPhone SDK
A new SelfSolved problem is ready for perusal: A couple of my iPhone projects require a decent HTML/XHTML parser. On OS X, Cocoa ships with NSXMLDocument, which includes dirty HTML parsing functionality from libtidy. Unfortunately, NSXMLDocument is not part of the actual iPhone 2.2 SDK (though it is part of the 2.2 Simulator — so [...]
Musings on the state of popular science fiction
Received an email from a good friend on the “new and improved” Star Trek: I gave this some thought, and perhaps one could say that blowing up Vulcan is a symbolic “fuck you” to the core values of Trek, to wit: “Logic, reason, humanism–fuck these things! Do what feels right regardless of the consequences. Or [...]
MenuMeters integer overflow in memory stats
MenuMeters is a very cool, free (as in freedom) system monitoring tool for OS X that sits in the menu bar and shows you live statistics, including such values as current bandwidth usage, current network activity, memory usage, page faults, etc. One thing that has been irritating me lately is that there’s a cosmetic error [...]
