This is more for me because I know I’ll forget, but I’ve been doing this for little utilities like dd_rescue and cups-pdf for a while so I wanted to put it down for those too lazy to read Apple’s overly-extensive documentation on the topic — and for me when I forget.

One Step

This should work for most programs.

gcc -arch i386 -arch ppc -O3 -o cups-pdf cups-pdf.c

Two Steps

If the one step method fails for any reason, this will work:

1. Build your project in two versions, one for PPC and one for Intel: gcc -arch ppc -O3 -o cups-pdf.ppc cups-pdf.c gcc -arch i386 -O3 -o cups-pdf.intel cups-pdf.c

My 17” Apple Studio Display popped for the last time and Apple finally just replaced it. However, by the time I got around to sending it in and getting the replacement I’d setup my G4 tower as a headless home server, so the monitor did me no good at all.

That said, I noticed that it’d been a year or so since I played with my Linux box so I pulled it out of stowage and hooked it up. Apparently I’d left it in a minor state of disrepair and cleaned up a few issues with things I’ve learned since then. Later tonight comes a kernel upgrade, but outside of that it’s been fun playing with KDE and other things again.

Just … classic. “Music” from a dot-matrix printer printing patterns of characters.

Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers

I Laugh at Your So-Called “Vulnerability” Reporting

PC Rag: Eureka! Mac’s [sic] Are Not Invulnerable

Given this recent development, my question is, “Will you be stuffing that superior attitude in your crow or eating it separately, sir?”

How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it’s gotten pretty quiet around here.

Go on, read the article. I’ll wait.

All done? Let’s go.

Kermit was not a frog. It was, actually, a nifty, if early and slow, file transfer protocol.

The best of the late BBS protocols was likely Zmodem, though some others came around that offered interesting features as well (Jmodem, comes to mind, as allowing not only resumable transfers but chat while downloading as well).

Off the top of my head there were:

• Kermit
• Jmodem
• Kmodem
• Xmodem
• Ymodem
• Zmodem

I know I’m missing about six. Know them?