Entries tagged with 'Mac'

This is probably an old one, but I’ve just discovered and think it’s pretty cool.
Open up a terminal on your Mac and copy and paste the following into the terminal and press enter:
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So [...]

Links of interest for 1 Feb 2008 - 14 Feb 2008:

Major Linux security hole found - Ooops. This is going to be around for some time and I wouldn't be surpised if a worm is created to capitalise on this vulnerability in the not too distant future.
How one clumsy ship cut off the web [...]

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]

I didn’t know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac:

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:

System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:

OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X “UNIX with a pretty face”. OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we’re in for another pop. Maybe, maybe [...]

I’ve been using iPhoto to manage my pictures ever since I got my Mac Mini. I was quite impressed with it originally, and it seemed to fulfil all my requirements. However, over time my collection of images got bigger and bigger and bigger still, and iPhoto just wasn’t keeping up. Starting iPhoto [...]