http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/ en-us 2006-07-24T02:18:19-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000044.html The very first chapter I wrote for Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach was the "history" chapter. My goal was to create a comprehensive and detailed book. I deemed it important for the reader to understand the long and... Apple amit 2006-07-24T02:18:19-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000043.html Mark A. Smith has published an article on using the ThinkPad's motion sensor for gaming: SDL Accel: SDL Modifications for Accelerometer Game Control.... Operating Systems amit 2006-06-20T22:28:43-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000042.html Knoppix on the Intel-based Macintosh has some initial details and pictures of Knoppix running on a 17-inch iMac Core Duo.... Apple amit 2006-02-20T16:22:49-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000041.html www.osxbook.com/blog talks about how to tag an existing HID device (a keyboard or a mouse, say) so that it can be considered as a remote control by the system...... Apple amit 2006-02-19T12:30:47-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000040.html I do have strange friends. Take Mark Smith, for example. Mark is essentially a Windows Internals guy -- I would call him OS-agnostic at best. In particular, he is certainly not a "Macintosh person". However, he recently purchased an Intel-based... Apple amit 2006-02-17T08:11:18-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000039.html SMSRotateD is a demonstration application that triggers screen rotation based on the orientation data it retrieves from the Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) built into newer Apple notebook models.... Apple amit 2006-02-12T23:59:24-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000038.html As noted on the "other" blog, iremoted is a command-line program that receives and displays events corresponding to button-presses on Apple's Infrared remote. The program also allows Keynote presentations to be controlled using the remote.... Apple amit 2006-02-06T00:45:00-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000037.html Without any ado: The accompanying website (osxbook.com) of my forthcoming book (Mac OS X Internals) is up. Although the site is preliminary at the moment, it has useful information related to the book. In particular, a detailed table of contents... Kernelthread.com amit 2006-02-06T00:42:18-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000036.html I have updated the motion sensor software available from kernelthread.com (AMSTracker, AMSVisualizer, StableWindow, and AMS2HID) to work with updated versions of Apple's motion sensor driver. The software should now work with Mac OS X 10.4.3 -- both on PowerBooks and... Apple amit 2005-11-25T11:02:37-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000035.html A quick FYI... it's done.... Apple amit 2005-11-10T17:33:12-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000034.html My apologies to all who have sent me emails that I couldn't respond to -- I am almost entirely off email for over a month. I hope to be able to say "done" in a matter of days now, if... Kernelthread.com amit 2005-10-28T10:15:30-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000032.html Operating Systems amit 2005-06-28T14:23:26-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000031.html Apple amit 2005-06-22T00:16:00-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000030.html This is sort of rushed, since I'm traveling starting today, but I want to share a hopefully useful program for monitoring (in near real-time) file system activity on "Tiger". The program, called "fslogger", uses the same underlying mechanism as Spotlight... Apple amit 2005-05-03T02:57:00-08:00 http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000029.html I've just updated HFSDebug for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger". The version to get is 2.01 Beta. I think this is a pretty exciting update, even for something as unexciting as a "debugger". The following primary changes have happened: hfsdebug... Apple amit 2005-04-30T20:52:14-08:00