Tech Notes » Misc http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes Miscellaneous technology examples and notes Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes http://ryan-nitz/favicon.ico Tech Notes Internet Explorer 6 On OS X http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2009/07/05/internet-explorer-6-os-x/ http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2009/07/05/internet-explorer-6-os-x/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:51:55 +0000 Ryan http://leisuremech.com/?p=165 ies4osx_256

Recently, the need arose to run IE 6 on OS X. Microsoft released IE for OS X but discontinued support in version 5.x. Fortunately, this problem has been solved by running a IE 6 on top of a Wine port on OS X. The simple steps below describe how to get this running:

It is as simple as that!

Note: Darwine requires the X11 libraries that come with OS X (not installed by default but ships with the OS X install disks).

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Below is a handy reference link about BDB JE (Berkeley Database Java Edition) locks, blocks and transactions:

After running some tests, we were amazed by the performance of the concurrent locking mechanism in BDB JE.

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A handy iPhone plugin for WordPress from ContentRobot.

http://iwphone.contentrobot.com

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What does the iPhone user agent look like?

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3

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