In a previous post on deploying Xcode components, I showed how the iOS Simulators are defined in a metadata file used by Apple, called dvtdownloadableindex, which is a binary plist containing information about all the “Components” available in the Downloads preference area. What’s useful about this file is that it describes in a human-readable way [...]
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Everything you’ll wish you didn’t know about disabling Java 7 updates
Oracle’s Java 7 JRE for OS X was first officially released in October 2012. As expected, there have been issues deploying and testing it, amidst confusion about Apple’s Java 6 updates and it disabling symlinks to the web plugin, the pre-emptive disabling of Java with XProtect, and more. And of course, the first thing administrators [...]
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