10.6: Disable and enable Rosetta via Terminal

If you have already installed Rosetta on your Intel Mac in Snow Leopard, you may want to disable it, so as to prevent the system from running PowerPC apps without informing you that they are non-native to your system\’s architecture. The reason for disabling Rosetta is not so much to save space (as it\’s only […]

New Doctor Who is \’simply the best\’ • The Register

I hope that we are not setting Matt Smith up for failure. I trust Steven Moffit, for his background with the New Doctor Who series… He\’s penned some of the best episodes, and has a solid background. But when I start hearing these types of statements…: Doctor Who lead writer Steven Moffat has classified Matt […]

Backing up Apple Mail\’s Junkmail filter

Folks, I normally recommend backing up the entire mail folder (~/library/mail), when you need to backup your Apple Mail…  But what if you want to share your junk mail filter data to another computer?  For example, your significant other\’s computer… Copy the ~/library/mail/LSMMap2 file to the other computer, but don\’t yet put it into Apple […]

Are Email Addresses Case Sensitive?

Question: Are Email Addresses Case Sensitive? Answer: Yes, Email Addresses Are Case Sensitive.  But with a caveat.  First the caveat, almost no vendors or isps enforce the case sensitivity, but according to RFC 2821, the standard that defines how email transport works, lays down the law, saying that case must be preserved.  It goes on to […]

A Morning Motivational Moment

The Tag Line – if you\’ve never failed, you\’ve never lived. Sounds tripe, but this is a fantastic motivational message… (View the rest of the article at DarcOso\’s Musings: A Morning Motivational Moment)

First Look: VMware Fusion 3

I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Fusion 3….. I have used both Parallels and Fusion both… And while I prefer Parallels slightly, Parallels (for some reason), will not access my Boot Camp drive, without requiring me to constantly reconfigure the virtual machine…. So I switched to Fusion, and I\’m pretty darn happy… Here\’s to […]

Where did these directories come from?

I just had someone ask me about some folder\’s they found on there system…  They were concerned that they folder\’s in question where taking up a bit of space, and they wanted to clean up there hard drive… For example: /Developer (from old Mac) /opt (from old Mac) The common factor, was the \”(from old […]