As is the norm for this time of year, the web’s full of top ten lists. And the portion of the web I read on a regular basis is naming their top ten tech items of the decade. In that spirit I thought I’d post about the most significant piece of technology from my decade, [...]
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 [...]
It’s just come to my attention that it’s now fairly trivial to split a drive into two differently formatted partitions, one of which could be used for the Mac while the other could be used for Windows. This is not necessarily new, but there are a number of things that make it of particular interest [...]
That title should give you a hint just how much my responsibilities have changed since I took my new job. Yes, I still run a Mac OS X Server, but I no longer get bi-yearly hardware updates. So my server is running a PPC, as is my workstation. So no Snow Leopard Server for me, [...]
Alexander Limi, one of the developers of the fine — and my favorite — browser, Firefox, recently issued a challenge that has been heard by many: how to make application installation more sensible for the less technically advanced. What followed — and, to some extent preceded — was an explosion of discussion on the matter. [...]
I’d day this is probably a first in my career. It appears that after installing the Mac OS X 10.5.8 update my drive space requirements have gone down. Yup, that’s right, my System partition now occupies a bit less space than it did prior to the update. I’d first noticed this on my old PowerBook [...]
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 [...]
I had the oddest thing happen to me recently. I was changing my Desktop picture, and I navigated to one of the fuller image folders in the Desktop pane of the System Preferences, and as the images loaded I saw a progress bar at the bottom of the window. I’d never seen this before. I [...]
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 [...]