Technical Notes
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2008-08-18 Building Universal I/O Kit Drivers (HTML)
Updated for Xcode 3.x.
Minor Change Hardware & Drivers
2008-08-06 Mac OS X Code Signing In Depth (HTML)
First Version
First Version Security
2008-09-10 Observing Process Lifetimes Without Polling (HTML)
A major rewrite to eliminate use of deprecated APIs and to update the technote to reference the latest techniques.
Minor Change Process Management
2008-09-16 Running At Login (HTML)
First Version
First Version Process Management
2008-08-14 Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Added content for Intel-based Macs and updated for Leopard.
Content Update Hardware & Drivers, Kernel