Category Archives: OS X

Fixing Java tools on Snow Leopard

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Brian Pontarelli

I was attempting to work with VisualVM and Tomcat over the past few days on Snow Leopard and it was constantly failing. I was getting errors like this: “attach: task_for_pid(59980) failed (5)” I was also getting errors inside VisualVM and … Continue reading →

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Fixing macbook wake up problems

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Brian Pontarelli

One of the family Apple notebooks (a Macbook) was having some issues waking up from sleep periodically. It was also having issues when the lid was closed the fan would constantly spin as though the machine was overheating. I took … Continue reading →

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Android review and iPhone comparison

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Brian Pontarelli

Here’s a quick run-down and comparison between the G1 vs. iPhone and Andriod vs. OS X mobile. This is based on side-by-side evaluation with both phones. The phones Keyboard The winner: G1 The G1′s keyboard is awesome. I like it … Continue reading →

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Getting the current system time in milliseconds with C++

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Brian Pontarelli

After doing quite a bit of C++ recently, I thought I would post my method for getting the current system time in milliseconds in C++ for both Mac OS X and Windows. The Mac version might translate to other Unix … Continue reading →

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git completion in zsh

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Just figured out how to get git tab completion working in zsh on a Mac. Turns out that the completion scripts use a bunch of extra git commands such as git-ls-files. These commands need to be in your path for … Continue reading →

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