How strange. How sucky. My iMac (15") came with Developer Tools. My Jaguar up-to-date upgrade came with Developer Tools, too.
Trey In a message dated Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Vic Norton writes: > Thanks for the help, everyone. I've spent much of the afternoon > trying to find out how to get the Developer Tools CD that doesn't > come with new Macs. After a couple of calls to Apple I was finally > directed to <http://developer.apple.com>, but that didn't help much. > To download the software I need to be registered. Apparently I am > already registered, but the only passwords I can think of don't work. > When I try to get help, they ask me for my birth date. I can remember > that: April 22 (1935). "Nope," Apple says, "The authentication > provided doesn't match our records." > > Catch 22. I'm still in the same quandary. I can't "make" anything in OS X! > > So I've bought a new machine whose system is crippled and which > doesn't have the "Developer" CD that store-bought versions of OS X > have. Well, my new 17" iMac looks nice, but I guess I'll be doing > Perl on my Power Computing tower for a while. I have all the tools I > need there. > > Exercise, using Bit::Vector, find the one nonsquare multiple of 4 > less than 1 million that is not the sum of a square and a prime. I'd > like to see how long this exercise takes on my new machine, but, > unfortunately, I can't use Bit::Vector. > > Regards, > > Vic > >
