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Decimal Bytes

Aarg! The kB(d) silliness is spreading to common shell commands. I’m not in hard drive marketing, so I want to keep using the standard kilobyte, not the ~2.34% smaller new decimal kilobyte. The spread of this silliness is almost like deciding that from today on electrons have a positive charge. Sure, it would make things [...]

Snow Leopard first impressions

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since my SuperDrive is dead, I was going to install from a second Mac booted into FireWire drive sharing mode. The install disk refuses to run in this mode. I used OS X disk sharing, but had to first run a couple commands: defaults write [...]