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FTP on macOS High Sierra

As you may have noticed, FTP is no longer a part of macOS High Sierra. If you are in the Terminal, you’ll get something like this: Norms-iMac-Pro:~ norm$ ftp -bash: ftp: command not found An Apple Forum’s post has this reasoning. Fortunately, there is Homebrew to the rescue. As pointed out in that post, you […]

Mac OS X, Programming

Installing GCC-7.3.0 on macOS High Sierra

I talked about getting GCC-5.3.0 running in a previous post. As part of some benchmark testing I’m doing for a new computer build, which I hope to write about in a future post, I ventured back into the world of parallel programming. I used the excellent instructions from Solarian Programmer found here to get GCC-7.3.0

iOS, Mac OS X, Programming

Allowing different orientations by device (iPad vs iPhone)

I’ve been watching the Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift podcast (yes, iTunes U content is now available as podcasts, which is cool because you can view them on your Mac) and playing around the Concentration app. This app really wants to be Portrait on an iPhone but Portrait or Landscape on an iPad, given

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