Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
After I updated my Power Mac G5 to Mac OS X Leopard the system seemed to work fine at first. But over time I experienced an increasing number of kernel panics. They all looked like the kernel panic described in this thread on one of Apple’s mailing lists. Reading this e-mail exchange two causes of [...]
Apple has released another update for Mac OS X Leopard yesterday. As usual it fixes a lot of security problems and bugs. Unfortunately it also breaks the development environment, and not for the first time. The update included new shared libraries e.g. version 0.11.8 of pixman. The related libtool archives however were not updated. As [...]
After my LDAP server stopped working I had to re-configure my Mac to use NIS which caused me a lot of problems under Mac OS X in the past. But it seems that Apple actually fixed NIS support in Mac OS X Leopard. During the two days I used NIS as the directory service on [...]