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Linked List: April 8, 2006

Saturday, 8 April 2006

Mac Geekery: Non-Destructively Resizing Volumes ★: Starting in 10.4.6, the command-line diskutil tool can do the same non-destructive disk partitioning trick that Boot Camp uses to create your Windows disk partition. Or, more likely, Boot Camp’s debut was waiting for this feature to appear in 10.4.6. (Via 2lmc Spool.)
Rentzsch on the Xcode Double Broom ★: And people wonder why so many shops clung to CodeWarrior for so long.
Why Apple Needs to Support Dual-Booting Even if They’re Planning for Virtualization in Leopard ★: Chris Clark gets it:

Thus, if Apple is to provide a virtual machine for Windows on Mac OS X, they have to provide a “boot into Windows” option: the VM alone won’t cut it for people who rely on Windows in a do-or-die capacity. The Classic environment didn’t preclude booting into OS 9, it just rendered it unnecessary for 90% of people 90% of the time. By the same token, dual-booting Windows is the contingency plan for the edge cases; the people with special needs that VM can’t fulfill.
HBO Dashboard Widget ★: Full programming schedule plus QuickTime clips. (Via Dave Walker.)