Category Archives: Computing

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Security updates vs libtool

Posted on 17 September, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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 … Continue reading →

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NIS under Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on 10 September, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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 … Continue reading →

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WAPBL vs. Soft Dependences

Posted on 23 August, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used … Continue reading →

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