Category Archives: MacOSX

Snow Leopard first impressions

I just installed Snow Leopard, MacOSX 10.6, on my laptop.
It is indeed much faster. Considerably faster. I don’t have actual measures, but you can appreciate it. The interface is much snappier in response. There are many tiny improvements around, minor things, nothing revolutionary, although I really appreciate the new Expose’: now you can recall specific [...]

Hard disk going ballistic on OSX ?

Sometimes it happens to me that my hard drive starts being accessed in a very aggressive and noisy way. I found a couple of commands to see who is responsible:
sudo fs_usage -f filesys
and also
sudo iotop
In the last one, you could get error messages like
dtrace: error on enabled probe ID ….
but if you check the whole [...]

MacOSX Leopard extended ls

Apparently, something changed in the ls command with the release of Leopard. I don’t remember seeing this kind of report on Tiger, although it looks like the features already existed since long time. Now, take this information with a grain of salt, as I am not a MacOSX expert, just a (very busy) occasional tinkerer [...]

MacOSX Leopard and freezing keyboard

Looks like I am not the only one suffering of keyboard freezes in MacOSX Leopard on a laptop. Looks like upgrading to 10.5.1 does not solve either. A temporary solution for this problem, while waiting for Apple to release a patch, is to keep numlock pressed for some seconds. When the led turns on, the [...]

Script relocatability

I wrote the first part of some research I did on script relocatability. The basic problem is to make a script and its resources relocatable. It is not meant to be correct, actually I believe there are many errors and inaccuracies, but it brings a lot of arguments to discuss. I will write the second [...]

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