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Mystery solved: iTeaHAL

Posted by Tom on August 17th, 2007 — in Mac

I’ve been getting strange messages in my system and console logs, or when executing certain applications from the command line. Notably iMovie and Skype:

iTeaHAL: Entering… iTeaHAL: Not iTunes, exiting.

And when executing iTunes, I get this:

iTeaHAL: Entering… iTeaHAL: Early startup… itea_hijack_init: result: 0 iTeaHAL: Early startup done. new_AudioDeviceAddIOProc:0×2281b68 link added iTeaHAL: Late startup… {length = 6, capacity = 6, bytes = 0×000a95c4a60e} itea_fx_init: result: 0 itea_menu_init: [...]

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multiwhich

Posted by Tom on August 15th, 2007 — in Command line, Linux, Mac

The “which” Unix command lists the location of the first matching executable in your PATH. The GNU version of “which” has several extra features including the ability to display all matching executables in your PATH, not just the first. This is useful for finding duplicates, etc. Unfortunately, whatever version of “which” is included in Mac [...]

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iPhone crash report gives insight into iPhone software

Posted by Tom on July 1st, 2007 — in Mac, iPhone

So, I’ve already managed to “crash” the iPhone, but of course since it runs “OS X” with protected memory and all that fun stuff (and this wasn’t a kernel panic), the crash consisted of Safari closing and returning to the home screen, not completely freezing like my RAZR always did whenever I would try to [...]

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Where is Drunken Batman?

Posted by Tom on May 2nd, 2007 — in Mac

I was doing a little spring cleaning of my RSS feeds today, and realized we haven’t heard from everyone’s favorite Mac blogger, Drunken Batman, in one full year.

Where is he!?

EDIT: Well, he appears to be back, with an odd rant about some guy named Vinay Venkatesh…

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