Archive for the 'OS X' Category

The Mac OS X Terminal Holy Grail: mrxvt

I’ve been a bit unhappy with terminal offerings on OS X since I switched. I’ve spent a bit of time working with each iTerm, GLTerm, xterm, aterm, eterm, but always end up back with Terminal.app because it’s fast and pretty. My wish list has always been speed and anti-aliased fonts. I use Gnu screen for […]

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Bug Review

Lotta reviews of OS 10.4 floating around these last few days. Instead of reporting all the things you’ve read again here, I’ve decided to post a review of all the bugs I’ve encountered with 10.4 since it was released.

Powerbook Upgrades

I got a new Mac.

Well not really, but I thought it’d be funny given my somewhat less than decisive history. I did, however, upgrade my RAM. from the stock 256 MB to 768 MB.

Why Apple considers 256 MB of RAM acceptable for OS X I’ll never understand, in fact, the minimum system requirements call for […]

Auto-sensing PowerBook network port

The network port on my PowerBook is auto-sensing!

Apple’s Keynote

After watching a myriad of uninspired, plain, illegible mockeries of color and form it came to be my turn …