News: “Ask TUAW: File ownership and permissions, converting FLV and OGG, extra displays, and more”

Posted: March 5th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Ask TUAW: File ownership and permissions, converting FLV and OGG, extra displays, and more on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: Apple Terminal, Disk Utility, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBook Pro

Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about changing file ownership and permissions, adding two external displays to a MacBook Pro,…


News: “Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d”

Posted: December 9th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d on blog.scottlowe.org
Topics: Mac OS X, Mac OS X v10.5, MacBook Pro, Time Machine, Property list, Apple Terminal, Apple Filing Protocol, MacBook

Chad Sakac of EMC (visit his weblog here) recently sent me an Iomega ix4-200d storage unit. Considering that I didn’t need it for my VMware lab—which runs both EMC and NetApp storage arrays—I pressed it into service at home. I…


News: “Ben Galbraith: The Color Mystery Deepens”

Posted: April 22nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Ben Galbraith: The Color Mystery Deepens on Planet Mozilla
Topics: Mac OS X, MacBook Pro, Apple Terminal, MacBook

Yesterday, I posted some of my frustrations with how color display behavior got a bit wacky when I hooked up a non-Apple external monitor to my MacBook Pro. Responses varied from, “I’ve seen this too and I feel your pain” to “Hey noob,…