It may not be a good thing, depending on what you try to hide on your computer. After seeing it reported elsewhere that Spotlight’s “All Images” search on Leopard really does serve up every image on the system, I decided to give it a try myself and see what turned up. Sure enough, every single [...]
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A quickie for those that want to actually get their hands dirty with OS X’s ipfw firewall: WaterRoof seems to be the tool for configuring an ipfw firewall, setting a startup script for it, etc. for Leopard. One of the nice things is that it comes with a few rules sets that make getting the [...]
Worked my way through a bit more of my system, and found another thing that’s not very happy with Leopard. Turns out that the MySQL Community Server (the free one you can download from mysql.com) really doesn’t work on Leopard, and it seems that it’s primarily the Preference Pane, startup item, and socket locations that [...]
I’ve spent a weekend with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, now, including a couple aborted attempts at installing it, and I think I can safely say I’m liking it. I tend to shy away from *.0 releases, primarily because they never have all the bugs worked out. For the most part, I’m impressed at how [...]
Hello from my new digs at my new domain! I’ve finally figured out that trying to come up with a groovy, rippin’ domain name that would sound cool and be thematic towards my writing was too much of a pain in the ass, and decided that I should simply be me. So, with that in [...]
