Mac and OS X Goodies
Sunday, March 28, 2004Weekend Blogger
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Mac OS X Fragmentation
Notes and Tips: Mac OS X Fragmentation. Here's the official word on Mac OS X file fragmentation from Apple. [MacInTouch] [dws.]
Tuesday, March 23, 2004Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World
Salvaging MacOS files in a UNIX World. Abstract: Mac Users usually don't use suffixes such as .doc - after all, we've got resource forks! But what to do, if such a file (or thousands!) ends up on a *NIX machine (such as OS X Server!) without that ressource fork? O... [macosxhints] [dws.]
An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy
An overview of a generic UNIX filesystem hierarchy. Did you ever wonder what exactly should be in the /usr/bin directory? Or maybe what goes inside the /usr/local/sbin directory? I found a great resource of the standards for UNIX describing all the directories in a basic UNIX ... [macosxhints] [dws.]
Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3
Report: Mac OS X 10.3.3. We've got a ton of advice again today about the Mac OS X 10.3.3 update. [MacInTouch] [dws.]
Saturday, March 06, 2004Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up
Mac OS X: Your Mac won't start up.
Nothing can be more frustrating than turning on your Mac only to find that it won't start up. Instead of seeing the Finder, you see a blue or gray screen, an icon of a broken folder, a kernel panic, a flashing question mark, or a computer that just sits there. What are you going to do now? A million things could make your Mac act this way. Don't worry. It's usually just a simple issue you can fix yourself. [Apple Computer Top Mac OS X Documents]
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts
Mac OS X: Keyboard shortcuts offers common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. By meryl@lockergnome.com (Meryl). [Lockergnome’s Technology News]
Tuesday, March 02, 2004Aunt Tillie's OS X adventure
In a pair of recent essays, Eric Raymond tears into the open source community -- rightly so -- for its failure to deliver software that Aunt Tillie can use. He's spot on. One of his comments got me wondering, though:
If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programmers) they'd probe the local network neighborhood and omit the impossible entries. If they were really smart (like, say, Mac programmers) they'd leave the impossible choices in but gray them out, signifying that if your system were configured a bit differently you really could print on a Windows machine, assuming you were unfortunate enough to own one. [Eric Raymond: An Open-Source Horror Story]As it happens, I'd never tried printing to a Windows XP queue on my home network from my Mac, and I wondered how well those Mac programmers Eric talks about handled that case. So here, for your Flash viewing pleasure, is Aunt Tillie's OS X Adventure. ... [Jon's Radio]