Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
Recently, while working my way through a strange issue with my shell’s $PATH, 1 I had the chance to take a (semi) deep dive into how OS X constructs the $PATH. I’m jotting these notes down here in part for myself, and hopefully so someone else won’t have to do the same amount of… archaeology. […]
This was originally titled “introducing Beefeater” back in February when we first brought the Mac mini into the fold but… Well, life and blogging has a funny way of getting away from you sometimes. Let us not digress: Remember Malkovich? Poor Malkovich. Malkovich did finally crash its final crash, shitting the bed with epic and […]
…or: a reprise of the “thoughts on replacing our iMac G5” thread. Though discussed here before, I think that this is the real thing this time. As Malkovich 1 approaches its sixth year of service, it is getting close to completely shitting the bed. Gone are the days of the annoying random shutdowns, but they […]
Because I have developed some sort of weird obsession with this particular niche product in Apple’s line-up, a couple of quick notes about the newly announced Mac mini: Putting the SD card slot on the back seems… well, that seems wrong (but the ports etc. were always on the back, weren’t they?); wouldn’t this be […]
On a regular basis (talking “daily, all day” here), I run n tabs in an open Terminal window where n > 1 (and usually n > 4). And so each time I open up on these tabs and cd into the directory I need, I’m hitting ⇧⌘i to set a custom title on that tab; […]
I broke down and decided to try out Google’s Chrome browser after having heard so many positive reviews of it. It’s backed by WebKit–just like Safari, my current favorite–and so if nothing else, I know it has a tried and true and powerful engine going behind the scenes. That said, I’ve tried out more than […]
Following up on the September post (“advise me: enhancing storage“)–we went ahead and put a shiny new 1 TB Western Digital hard drive 1 into Malkovich, effectively quadrupling the storage (re this particular problem) and paving the way for a lot more life out of this ol’ iMac. The idea for this particular upgrade owes some […]
Since moving into our new home, we’ve been trying to sort out our home audio situation. We listen to a lot of music 1 around here. Though we were feeling cramped, one of the nice things about our condo’s small footprint was the fact that that the music could be heard throughout the house without […]
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play 1. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 2. If you’re not panicking (or at least a little alarmed) then don’t bother reading onward. […]