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Volume Number: 25 Issue Number: 09 Column Tag: System administration Using Sassafras' KeyServer to Manage Licenses by Criss Myers Preface to the issues involved with licensing One of the many ...

When writing an application in C, high-level debuggers such as Think C’s Debugger and SADE eliminate quite a bit of pain from the development process since they are able to display references to ...

Even with Apple Intelligence tools and a fresh look for iOS, most iPhone upgrades happen when the old phone breaks down, not when Apple ships something new. Apple Intelligence doesn't sell iPhones ...

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This article discusses a Java applet which plots contours based on a given matrix of floating-point values. The idea is to present an algorithm which is simple enough to be implemented in a few ...

User interface design in 3D applications remains a difficult area. The problem of how best to allow user access to features like object, face, and vertex selection; translation, scaling, and rotation; ...

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At the Big Nerd Ranch, we teach the world's greatest Cocoa programming course (and the greatest Python, PHP, Perl, and PostgreSQL classes). One of the things that makes the course great is the alumni ...

Apple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV ...

If you’ve read enough about drawing shapes in windows under MacApp, here’s a little break. In fact, the next feature that I wanted to add to the drawing example was to put text boxes into the document ...

Apple researchers have found that state-of-the-art "reasoning" AI models like OpenAI's o3-mini, Gemini (with thinking mode-enabled), Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1 face complete performance collapse [PDF] ...