Category Archives: Mac

Apple Inc., Macintosh Computers and Mac OS X

The “ps” conspiracy

Posted on 27 November, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

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 … Continue reading →

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Less Downtime And Problems

Posted on 23 September, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

A while ago I complained about problems with NIS under Mac OS X. The amount of comments I received on that posting suggests that a lot of people had similiar experiences. Encouraged by Iain Patterson’s excellent post about using LDAP … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X … Blessing or Curse?

Posted on 27 April, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

These days my preferred desktop machine at home is my Power Mac G5. The machine is reasonably fast, very silent (or at least less noisy than the other machines) and runs Mac OS X. And using Mac OS X on … Continue reading →

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