OS X
USB3 benchmarks on Mac Pro
I recently purchased the HighPoint RocketU 1144AM PCI-E 2.0 x4 Quad-Port USB 3.0 Raid card for my Mac Pro. Since most external drives you buy these days are USB3, and the Mac Pro only has (and perhaps only every will have, if the rumour mill is true) USB2 ports, the only option I had for [...]
SSD Speed-ups on Mac Pro
I have an SSD in my Fedora workstation for my rq tool, specifically for the MySQL database. The speed increase there, because it was dealing with huge amounts of data, was very welcome — not so much for importing (speed there didn’t much increase since all the files being operated on were on the HDD), [...]
Figuring this git thing out
I’m a little old-school in that I like subversion. I’ve used subversion for years, and have had it as a big part of my workflow for a really really long time. Unfortunately, there’s this git thing popping up all over the place and I’m starting to feel dated. (It’s bad enough that my daughter turned [...]
Unwanted guest account in OS X 10.7.2
So I was thoroughly annoyed to find a guest account with a sandboxed Safari after I had setup iCloud on OS X 10.7.2. Turns out, this only appears when you have “Find My Mac” enabled, and it does make sense (how can your mac be found if no one is using it?). If you don’t [...]
Kerberos on OS X 10.7 (Lion)
So I had upgraded my wife’s MacBook to Lion and discovered that, once again, Apple screwed around with Kerberos. This seems to be a recurring theme (and not a good one). After quite a bit of fighting and figuring, a few things have been sorted out. Once I’ve got it completely figured out, I’ll document [...]
Work some project management magic with Merlin
Last week’s mac techmail was Work some project management magic with Merlin where we look at using ProjectWizards’ Merlin project management software. If you need project management on steroids, Merlin is a good bet. Even more importantly, if you need an easy way to share project management files within a group or with co-workers, Merlin [...]