Even in the Linux world, where cluster and grid computing are well established, there is often confusion about how to distinguish a grid from a cluster. Let's look at characteristics of each. Grid ...

Volume Number: 24 (2008) Issue Number: 02 Column Tag: MacTech Labs Virtualization Benchmarking How do Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and VMware Fusion stack up? by Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief ...

Ironically, the main performance bottleneck for game programmers today - as ten years ago - is getting pixels up on the screen. With the advent of 100 MHz bus speeds, built-in hardware support for ...

For the past couple of columns, we have discussed various ways to store and access data using AppleScript. One column provided an introduction to Database Events, a background application in Mac OS X ...

Volume Number: 22 (2006) Issue Number: 8 Column Tag: Industry Influence The MacTech 25 The 25 most influential people in the Mac technical community. by Dean Shavit On The Meaning of Influence WWDC is ...

Software is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks ...

In an article in the now justly famous Smalltalk edition of Byte Magazine for August 1981, Larry Tessler refers to the notion of an Integrated Environment, a concept he ascribes to Alan Kay. He says ...

This article explains how to program a Microchip PIC microcontroller on a Macintosh running OSX. The programmer hardware that is used is a Wisp628 by Van Ooijen Technische Informatica. The software ...

Related Info: Memory Manager An Efficient 68040 BlockMove Moving data at light speed and only when you need to By Mike Scanlin, MacTech Magazine Regular Contributing Author Note: Source code files ...

The API for contextual menu plugins is different in OS X than in OS 8/9. It's COM-compatible--it's based on Microsoft's Component Object Model. That should be enough to scare you off, but don't let it ...

Fractal Mountain Climbing By Eli Meir, Ben Haller, Ithaca, NY Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM or source code disks. Fractal Mountains [Eli Meir is a student ...

Warning: These programs use the alternate screen buffer, an area of memory that is also used by the Mac Plus RAM cache. As a result, when the program exits, Finder information previously in the cache ...