A Racoon is nibbling on my console log again!

I checked the console logs today (some unrelated problem) and discovered these being spammed every 5 seconds or so: racoon38 38 ERROR: failed select (Invalid argument) The discussions I have found on this, typically refer to upgrading to 10.6.1 or later. The solutions seem to be: Rebooting Disabling VPN Terminating the Racoon process (Kill -15 […]

Apple Seeds Build 10F569 of 10.6.4

World of Apple, noted that today Apple gave a select number of developers access to the eighth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. 10F569 includes the same seed notes as the last couple of builds and continues to contain no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F569 weighs in at 613.8MB in its delta […]

Some facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware Survey

Here is some interesting facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware survey that includes Macintosh hardware…. Percentage of Macintosh systems ~ 8.7% Mac OS X 10.6.3     ~6.95% Mac OS X 10.5.8     ~1.40% Mac OS X 10.6        ~ 0.33% That exceeds the percentage (6.95%) of Vista 64 bit systems, […]

Apple Seeds Build 10F58 of Mac OS X 10.6.4

World of Apple Reports: Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the fifth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F58 includes a multitude of fixes and like the previous build of Mac OS X 10.6.4 contains no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F58 weighs in at 593.2MB in its […]

Apple Seeds Fourth Build of Mac OS X 10.6.4

World of Apple indicates that Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the fourth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F54 includes a multitude of fixes and for the first time in the testing cycle of Mac OS X 10.6.4 contains no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F54 weighs in […]

Apple Seeds Third Build of Mac OS X 10.6.4

According to World of Apple: Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F50 includes a multitude of fixes and just one known issue. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F50 weighs in at 581.3MB in its delta form. Included in this update Resolve an […]

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Build 10F46

World of Apple dishes out information on 10.6.4 Build 10F46…. Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F46 includes a multitude of fixes and just one known issues affecting a font within the operating system. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F46 weighs in […]

Apple Fires another salvo at Adobe…

Well, Apple has finally decided enough is enough, and publicly sent another Salvo towards Adobe’s broadsides….  And Adobe might just be happy about this one. Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers In 10.6.3, Apple has now made a new “Video Decode Acceleration Framework” available.  What does that mean?  Adobe’s number one reason why […]