http://blog.plasticsfuture.org Mac OS X Gordian Knots Smashed Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/06/27/mac-os-file-creation-dates/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/06/27/mac-os-file-creation-dates/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:34:14 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/06/27/mac-os-file-creation-dates/ Yesterday, an interesting discussion about file metadata has begun on darwin-dev. Apple's Jordan Hubbard argued how file creation dates should not be preserved when copying files. In this piece, I counter that treating file creation dates as first-class metadata citizens and preserving them upon copying is the more sensible thing to do, and eventually represents the behavior expected by most Mac users.]]> http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/06/27/mac-os-file-creation-dates/feed/ 47 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/asr-broken-in-1046/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/asr-broken-in-1046/#comments Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:51 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/asr-broken-in-1046/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/asr-broken-in-1046/feed/ 39 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/#comments Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:32:43 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/feed/ 111 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/install-cvs2svn-on-mac-os-x-1042/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/install-cvs2svn-on-mac-os-x-1042/#comments Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:01:29 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/?p=6 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/install-cvs2svn-on-mac-os-x-1042/feed/ 3