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/2009/12/07/missing-hyphenation-menu-entry-in-ms-word-due-to-corrupted-normal-doc/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/12/07/missing-hyphenation-menu-entry-in-ms-word-due-to-corrupted-normal-doc/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:35:19 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/?p=30 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/12/07/missing-hyphenation-menu-entry-in-ms-word-due-to-corrupted-normal-doc/feed/ 2 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/03/11/data-loss-through-windowserver-crashes-in-leopard/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/03/11/data-loss-through-windowserver-crashes-in-leopard/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:04:12 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/03/11/data-loss-through-windowserver-crashes-in-leopard/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2009/03/11/data-loss-through-windowserver-crashes-in-leopard/feed/ 20 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2008/10/21/no-fix-for-glossy-macbook-pro-screens/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2008/10/21/no-fix-for-glossy-macbook-pro-screens/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:52:23 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2008/10/21/no-fix-for-glossy-macbook-pro-screens/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2008/10/21/no-fix-for-glossy-macbook-pro-screens/feed/ 2 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2007/04/28/backup-bouncer-metadata-test-suite/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2007/04/28/backup-bouncer-metadata-test-suite/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:32:52 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2007/04/28/backup-bouncer-metadata-test-suite/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2007/04/28/backup-bouncer-metadata-test-suite/feed/ 3 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/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/#comments Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:01:29 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/ Earlier, I wrote about The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X, where I made the point that copying files on Mac OS X is not trivial because of the metadata associated with files. I analyzed a variety of file copying engines, most of them command-line tools, and demonstrated how they fare in preserving file metadata. In this article, I will investigate commonly used GUI backup/cloning tools for Mac OS X. The tools vary widely with respect to their feature set; the features are irrelevant here. I will concentrate purely on the underlying functionality of copying files. A backup tool needs to be able to copy files faithfully for a successful restore in case desaster has struck. The surprising conclusion of my investigation is that almost all Macintosh Backup tools fail at their most basic task, the faithful copying of files.]]> http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/feed/ 347 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/04/mac-os-x-1046s-isync-22-adds-nokia-series-40-support/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/04/mac-os-x-1046s-isync-22-adds-nokia-series-40-support/#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:28:44 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/04/mac-os-x-1046s-isync-22-adds-nokia-series-40-support/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/04/mac-os-x-1046s-isync-22-adds-nokia-series-40-support/feed/ 0 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/23/short-downtime/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/23/short-downtime/#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:42:55 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/23/short-downtime/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/23/short-downtime/feed/ 1 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/ 114 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/ichat-audiovideo-chat-and-file-transfer-behind-nat/ http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/ichat-audiovideo-chat-and-file-transfer-behind-nat/#comments Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:03:06 +0000 maurits http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/?p=7 http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/04/ichat-audiovideo-chat-and-file-transfer-behind-nat/feed/ 14 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