Idle Time

1. You’ll understand the bug better. This means you can write a better bug report, which will help Apple fix it more quickly (meaning you may get the fix more quickly).

2. They’ll understand the bug better. This, too, helps Apple fix it more quickly.

3. You may find that it is not a bug in the API at all, but that you were misusing it. Perhaps you were using something on a thread that you shouldn’t have been, or expecting some argument to be used a certain way when it’s actually used differently.

   In this case, you may be able to use the API after all, saving you the time you would have spent hacking around a non-bug. This also saves them the time they would have spent triaging and eventually responding to a non-bug.

   If your misunderstanding was borne out of poor documentation (misleading, inaccurate, vague, incomplete), you can file a bug report about that instead. Then the documentation gets better and future users of the same API avoid making the same error you did.

A test app isn’t appropriate for every kind of Radar, but when it is, including it helps everyone.

While I’m making screencasts of OmniWeb…

QuickTime/H.264, 960×538, 376 K

This is the format they want you to use, and since a few months ago, it’s now easy for you to use it.

This bug is NSUserDefaults does not look in /Library/Preferences. It was filed on 2008-11-14 at 23:09 PST.

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This bug is Typo in syslogd(8) manpage. It was filed on 2008-01-19 at 15:41 PST.

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This bug is ASL_QUERY_OP_REGEX should be a modifier, not an operator. It was filed on 2008-01-18 at 23:27 PST.

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This bug is ASL provides no way to not escape messages written to a file. It was filed on 2008-01-18 at 18:44 PST.

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This bug is Description of ASL_OPT_NO_DELAY is unclear. It was filed on 2008-01-18 at 17:34 PST.

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I finally got around to filing a lot of the Leopard bugs I racked up after WWDC:

Too bad I did it so late, though. It’s probably GM already.

This bug is Borken implementation of -setNilValueForKey: in Model Object Impl Guide. It was filed on 2007-09-14 at 12:24 PDT.

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This bug is Member variable is not an Objective-C term. It was filed on 2007-08-10 at 12:13 PDT.

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This bug is Either you can use a sdef directly, or you cannot. It was filed on 2007-08-10 at 11:51 PDT.

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This bug is iTunes viewport pinned to top of selection when selection is at top of viewport. It was filed on 2007-08-02 at 10:31 PDT.

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This bug is File type of GIF files in UTI list is incorrect. It was filed on 2007-07-01 at 18:18 PDT.

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This bug is kIconServicesUpdateIfNeededFlag not documented. It was filed on 2007-05-25 at 02:02 PDT.

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This bug is kIconServicesNoBadgeFlag not documented. It was filed on 2007-05-25 at 02:00 PDT.

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This bug is hdiutil provides no facility to change bzip2 block-size. It was filed on 2007-05-25 at 13:49 PDT.

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This bug is User 501 gets the admin bit after migration. It was filed on 2007-05-25 at 13:29 PDT.

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Since I’m at WWDC, all the bugs I’m filing this week are Leopard bugs. That means that their contents are under NDA, so I can’t post them on the web. Thus, there will be no ABF this week.

ABF will return next week with at least two bugs! And yes, they will both be Tiger bugs.

This bug is Mac OS X should include pbzip2. It was filed on 2007-05-25 at 01:01 PDT.

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This bug is NSImageInterlaced has no effect. It was filed on 2007-05-12 at 00:50 PDT.

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