Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
I recently updated my Power Mac G5 from Mac OS X Tiger to Leopard. I used the update option offered by the Leopard installation DVD which did a reasonable job. The process took about two hours and the machine started up without any problems afterwards. However, there were a few problems I had to sort [...]
After installing Apple’s latest security update on my Mac I could no longer use the Emacs editor. The problem was easy to fix by correcting the permissions of the main binary. I decided nevertheless to report this problem to Apple using their bug reporting system. A few days later Apple requested more information which I [...]
The first decent UNIX systems I worked with were the good old Sun 3 and Sun 4 systems of the computer science department of the University Paderborn. At that time all the machines were running SunOS 4.0 which was derived from BSD 4.2. And of course it supported the proper syntax of the ps command [...]