Apple has finally released the much-anticipated 10.5.2 update. Unfortunately, Mail.app still says I have 4.3 billion email messages. Sadly, I’m not that popular unless you maybe count spam.
Hopefully they’ll get that one in 10.5.3.
I’ve updated my lab machine, a 2x dual-core Xeon machine, and it seems to be working alright so far. The big [...]

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There’s an interesting iPod ownership survey over on MacOSXHints.com — a site I often find answers on when doing Google searches for Mac issues. I have three, though one of them was an old Shuffle found lost on the street in our neighborhood, so I’ve only ever purchased two.
How many do you own? Take [...]

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Beginning with version 10.4 (”Tiger”), Mac OS X has had a powerful indexing and search engine built in. This can be used from the graphical interface, which is how most mac users interact with it. However, a command-line interface allows for some powerful searching and scripting.
This article by Andy Lester goes through the basic [...]

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I was unable to use dial-up over my T-mobile phone until I disabled IPV6 in Leopard. The command to do that is:
sudo networksetup -setv6off <interface>
For me, interface was Bluetooth for the Bluetooth connection and the name of my phone for the USB connection. This will depend on whatever your phone calls itself over USB.

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UNIX-like operating systems are immensely powerful. They give one access to the minutest details of the operating system with command-line utilities. The major downside of command-line interfaces is that it is not readily apparent which commands are available and what they do. One can spend hours poring through man pages looking for related program names, [...]

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