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…ly I gave up and searched more widely; the answer was buried deep in a gigantic thread in Dantz's forums: remove the driver update. It's extremely irresponsible of Dantz to know about a serious problem like this with released software, for over two months, and not post a fix, or even a more visible public notice. It cost me a lot of time this week, time I don't have to waste. Retrospect easily supports backing up multiple disks to a…

…Malloc debugging advice requested: Chris Kane from Apple has some great tips on how to debug memory errors on Mac OS X. If I get a few minutes this weekend (shoulder-deep in cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry, washing car, etc. today), I'll use it to work on ICeCoffEE/Terminal.app……

…dgets. The gallery is now available for your viewing pleasure. Fellow attendee-from-Illinois John Marriott has some comments on his first MacHack and the WWDC keynote. Some people have pointed out I neglected to even mention this year's hack. Avi Drissman and I wrote EdgeWarp, an extension to osx2x which makes it into osx2osx and adds drag and drop between attached screen edges. We suffered from severe schedule constraints due to Avi's p…

ICeCoffEE and Tiger

…folder. Of course, the new version doesn’t let you easily see deeply nested paths to multiple folders by just using the arrow keys on find results, which I’ve done since Find File in System 7.5. Maybe it’s the new retro thing: you couldn’t resize the Find File DA window in System 6, either. 1990: (Remember booting from floppy?) 2005: Also note the great display of file information in System 6. Instead, to see more information in Spotlight, you ha…