Though Time Machine uses hard links to reference files from any point in time without using additional space, changing anything about a file will, obviously, trigger a new copy of said changed file to be backed up to your Time Machine disk. What’s perhaps less obvious is that even simply changing the path to the [...]
I’ve had an ongoing beef with Leopard since it’s inception. The problem is difficult to describe, but I’ve had a lot more experience with it since the last time I wrote about it, and I think I now have a better idea of what’s going on. So I wanted to revisit the issue as we’re [...]
Hey, here’s a weird one: I finally got my home account back to working order after my experiment with PHDs only to find that iCal couldn’t open any of my online calendars. It kept saying the password was missing from Keychain, then refusing to let me add one, saying that the “Keychain could not be [...]
Last week I began testing the Apple Portable Home Directories feature. I’d heard a lot of good buzz, but my experience was pretty terrible. Of course I was doing things my own way, and not the Apple way, which is always a bit dicey. Almost Proper Wanting to get PHDs working, I decided to try [...]
Now that I’ve tried it myself, I’ve very much enjoyed the advantages that having a network home account has offered. I’ve also rather disliked some of the disadvantages. Ultimately, the biggest drawback has been that when our production crew is doing a lot of rendering, my home account slows to a crawl and I can’t [...]
I can’t believe I never wrote this up, but I’ve been using the Software Update Server included with Mac OS X Leopard Server since I upgraded the servers at my old job. If your network — or Apple’s servers — are ever slow to get updates, having your own centralized SU Server can make a world [...]
I don’t know if this is general knowledge or not, and I’m not a big Exposé user, so I could easily be ignorant of such a thing, but I just discovered that you can cycle through Exposé-activated applications using the tab or tilde keys. Here’s what you do: Hit the Exposé key (which is F3 [...]
That title’s not meant as a complaint. It’s just that I’ve noticed that over the years I’ve tended to use fewer and fewer system add-ons and customizations than I once did. And I realize that it’s because I use so many different computers. There used to be a time when I would customize the hell [...]
One of the new security measures in Leopard is a confirmation dialog that pops up anytime you attempt to open a file or executable bundle that was downloaded from the internet. You may have seen this dialog after downloading and launching a new application, for instance. It looks something like this: Some have hailed this [...]
I covered secondary DNS configuration in Tiger (10.4) Server a while back. And while the buttons have moved around a bit, most of those instructions apply to Leopard as well. Leopard does have one fairly cool new addition worth mentioning, though: forwarders. Generally I’m setting up secondary DNS for internal networks, and generally those internal [...]