January 9th, 2007
(Originally from OSNews.com) Apple today announced the long awaited iPhone, a device that I predicted about years 1.5 ago that it would happen (I won’t forget how a fellow editor from a Mac site emailed me to say that I am crazy after reading my blog back then). But the iPhone is real, and it’s [...]
September 11th, 2006
Apparently on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (and earlier), the zcat command doesn’t work. zcat is a very useful util to read through gzip-archived system logs and usually works by just typing zcat /path/to/log.gz
However, it appears to be broken on the Mac. For example, this is actual output:
[user@host:~] zcat /var/log/system.log.0.gz
zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory
[user@host:~] [...]
July 5th, 2006
I didn't even know about this until I happened to be browsing the Mac tech support forums on the Blizzard World of Warcraft site the day after Mac OS X 10.4.7 came out. Apparently, if you own a Intel Mac (I own a MacBook Pro) and do a typical Software Update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 [...]
June 5th, 2006
To illustrate how badly Microsoft Windows is designed, Australian IT magazine has a humorous article regarding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's troubleshooting session for a friend. Apparently Ballmer was attending a wedding and the bride's father had asked him to troubleshoot his Windows PC at home. Of course, Ballmer volunteered to check it out because he [...]
May 8th, 2006
Many distributions of Mac OS X come with Postfix installed, which make for great mail servers. However, Apple added a new twist to its UNIX backend with the addition of its own pseudo-replacement for cron, called launchd. This causes a minor, yet fatal error with Postfix on Tiger. If you use the preinstalled Postfix [...]