Mac OS X

Mac Mini saves the day — for a Windows user

by Tracey Capen  on 

I live in a house divided. I use both Mac and Windows, but my spouse is strictly Windows. Recently, I upgraded her aging PC with a new video card for better Windows 10 support. All seemed to go well — until I realized I’d booted the system but not plugged… Read More

Learning the Commandline – Looking at files

by cradom  on 

By now you should know your way around the file system and how to move around (if you don’t, go back and read the other articles. This is a series after all 🙂 ). You may have wondered, “I have all these files, how do I see what’s inside them… Read More

Learning the Command Line – Editing files

by cradom  on 

In this session we are going to learn one way of editing text files in Terminal. Back in the day there was pico. This was the editor part of the Pine mail program used in *nix. It was a very simple plain text editor used to create mail and text… Read More

Learning the Command Line – Bash Prompts (1)

by cradom  on 

NOTE: This article assumes you have been following the other articles in this series. Another Note: I can’t take credit for this. I got it from a now defunct website called dotfiles.com. I don’t remember who the original author was and I’ve edited it to suit me. I won’t be… Read More

Learning the Command Line – File Permissions

by cradom  on 

Ever have a file you can’t do anything with? Can’t change it, can’t delete it, can’t even look at it? We’re going to find out why. FreeBSD, and by extension, OS X (which is loosely based on FreeBSD), uses file permissions. This lets the system control access to files and… Read More

The Mysterious File:/// Bug

by vansmith  on 

Recently, there has been a rather silent but important story floating around about an odd bug built into Cocoa (OS X’s application programming interface that, in part, includes the user interface elements of OS X including things like buttons and text boxes). Although not generating a lot of news, this… Read More