The month the European Central Bank promised to buy bonds without limit, Greece guarded its own border without permission, and Brussels quietly shelved its plan to read everyone's phone records, but only for now.
Spy Game (2001), directed by Tony Scott, is a sharp and thrilling espionage film that keeps you hooked. Robert Redford is outstanding as Nathan Muir, a seasoned CIA operative racing against time to save his protégé, Tom Bishop, played with intensity by Brad Pitt.
The Dictator (2012), directed by Larry Charles, is a comedy about a North African tyrant who loses his identity while visiting New York. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the ruler of the fictional Republic of Wadiya.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.screensaver, controlling screen saver password and timing.
If you see spindump running on your Mac, here is what this hang detection process does.
A restaurant menu carries a full written confession to a murder, and De Cock recalls an old killing he never solved.
August 2012 showed how weak account recovery, leaky databases and government surveillance powers all chip away at personal privacy at once.
Monthly update 268 • August 2012 • 2012-08-01 - 2012-08-31
The month a bankrupt, divided, communist-led island took the wheel, a central banker promised whatever it takes with money he did not have, and Brussels began drafting itself a tax.
The article explores the CFBag and CFMutableBag Core Foundation types, which implement a bag (multi-set) data structure, allowing multiple occurrences of elements with associated counts.
If you see FileCoordination running on your Mac, here is what this file access coordination process does.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.
NSString and its toll-free bridged counterpart CFMutableString in Foundation and Core Foundation are highlighted for their exceptional Unicode handling, with CFStringTransform enabling powerful string transformations like stripping diacritics, naming Unicode characters, and transliterating between scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, and Hiragana.
A young man threatens a tourist with an infected needle, and the arrest pulls De Cock into a murder tied to the fear of AIDS.
Monthly update 267 • July 2012 • 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-31
A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, shows Operation Market Garden. This Allied plan in 1944 aimed to seize bridges in the Netherlands to end the war fast. It failed. The film uses a large cast.
July 2012 was defined by a wave of plaintext password leaks, fresh evidence of mass cellphone and Skype surveillance, and a string of regulators and courts wrestling with location tracking and facial recognition.
The month Brussels answered a debt crisis caused by too much Europe with a prescription of more Europe, handed the keys to your banks to the ECB, and told the Parliament to sit down when member states tried to guard their own borders.
NSSortDescriptor is a Foundation class used to sort collections. It is created with a key (property to sort on), ascending (true for ascending order), and optionally a selector or comparator for comparisons.
House M.D. is an American medical drama series. It aired on Fox from 16 November 2004 to 21 May 2012. David Shore created it. Hugh Laurie plays Dr Gregory House, a brilliant but difficult diagnostician who leads a team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
If you see findmymac running on your Mac, here is what this device tracking and security process does.
If you see managedclient processes running on your Mac, here is what these device management processes do.
NSCache works like NSMutableDictionary but removes objects automatically when memory runs low. This saves you from handling memory warnings or setting up timers to clear space.
If you see CSCSupportd running on your Mac, here is what this client-side caching process does.
NSIndexSet and its mutable version, NSMutableIndexSet, form a sorted set of unique unsigned integers. They act like an NSRange that allows gaps.