I’ve moved from my hosting with ICDSoft in China to ICDSoft’s USA colocation.

Things were updated in nameservice by myself in parallel with the move; anyone who cached (viewed) my page within the last few hours may have up to 48 hours until it updates on their ISP’s nameserver, but there IS a forward in place to the new location with an alternative name – CSS will be broken, and the site will be ugly, but it will still be functional.

Thanks for your swift, excellent service, ICDSoft .

[Update: Everything should be seeing the ‘new’ host, and yes, it may appear ‘faster’.]

Please pardon the dust; I’ve moved out of my old software base into an entirely new, redesigned (if not prettier) system.

I have converted, and imported all of my existing articles, but there has been no easy way to (re)classify them, as they’re entirely incompatible data types. I’ve manually updated the last fifty articles, but note that browsing by article type is not yet reflective of actual content.

As I am no longer actively maintaining open source software, the old posts will eventually be reclassified as legacy and deprecated; but left for the annals of time, and those searching for information I’ve uncovered in the past.

Yes, you’ve read that right. I will no longer offer Mac OS X ports, builds, or other assistance with my own open source based efforts.

This has been a difficult decision, however, I can no longer afford the time or bandwidth once dedicated to these projects.

If you wish to take over as maintainer of any of my existing code, please contact me, and the original authors (where applicable); I’ll be more than happy to offer my existing build structure with all dependencies, and when necessary, my personal build notes and GNU Patch unified diffs.

I have notified the authors of my ported software, and will continue to host this unsupported software through March, 2006.

Update: MKVToolNix, and OGMTools have found a new home. DOSBox is moving back in-house, and the Mac port of Bliss shall pass on with my silly little ‘speak’ utility.

Years ago – back in the OS9 days, I purchased a license for Candy Crisis. It’s followed me, even though I’ve had to request a new serial number for it.

I decided to take a look if it was still around. Even better. It’s now free!

On behalf of many other Columns addicts – thank you John!

Just look here:

./configure:2160: gcc -O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc conftest.c >&5

/usr/bin/ld: -syslibroot: multiply specified

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

/usr/bin/ld: -syslibroot: multiply specified

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

lipo: can’t open input file: /var/tmp//cc5HJuLE.out (No such file or directory)

Basically, there’s no ‘easy’, trivial, or even takes-a-couple-of-hours way to make most GNU configure built software create a universal binary under a PPC host at the moment; however, this universal build structure is entirely native on the x86 development systems, and the new x86 variants. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a couple grand to throw at free software that costs me money to offer every month.

Translation: You may not see a Universal Binary Update here. If I figure a way to work it out without having to maintain a seperate OSX code base, I’ll do it. If not, I’m not willing to put countless hours of effort into tools I no longer use on a platform I can’t even test.

Feel free to contact myself, or the original authors if you’re willing to take over maintenance – however, don’t check back too often for a Universal build.. the outlook is bleak.