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OS X

Nov
17
2009

one .profile to rule them all

I got sick of having to try to copy and make major modifications for each environment that I was in. As a consultant I sometimes have to deal with ridiculous policy driven constraints as to what software I can or cannot use. Sometimes it’s simply ignorance (like when the CTO of a company said that I could only script in a “…standard shell like BASH…” nothing obscure like KSH) but what ever the case it’s a pain when you’ve grown accustom to something as personal as your shell settings. Now I have a solution.

Sep
13
2009

Snow Leopard is pretty “cool” but still doesn’t have some things I’d like to see

I’ve been using Snow Leopard for over a week now. I’m quite pleased with the performance boost (it actually makes the first core2 based MacMinis usable) and don’t really mind the absence of feature creep/bloat. It looks like this was a targeted effort and Apple seems to have hit the mark quite aptly.

Unfortunately there are some things that still aren’t quite right for me with OS X that I’d hoped would have been addressed with the bring forth of this frosted feline. MuSmartlkjkjdkdjjIt