Time Machine is a nice backup solution for Mac. For those of you who might not be acquainted with it, Time Machine records snapshots of your system periodically. For 24 hours, provided that your system is working, it will record hourly backups. For the last month it will record daily backups, while for the previous months it will record weekly backups. When the hard disk where Time Machine records its backup is full, old backups will be deleted. Continue reading »
If you are one among those who use, like me, LyX to write texts on a Mac and you have upgraded to the new release (Snow Leopard) of the Apple operating system, than you might have noticed that LyX does not work properly on this new version of the operating system.
“One small step for man, one quantum leap for mankind” N. Armstrong
Indeed it is true. This year is the 40th anniversary of Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s landing on the moon and I wanted to celebrate that event (even if a bit late), with this famous quote as an overture to this article. This is the first piece of text that I write regarding the Mac OS operating system. As visitors of my website you might have guessed, from a previous post, that I have switched from Linux to Mac OS X. I have been using a MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks now, and I come up with some comments on it. Continue reading »
Sometimes ago I have written an article explaining how to use a remote web space as a disk, through ssh. The article was illustrating the usage of fuse on Linux to achieve such a goal. Since I have switched to a Mac recently, I did some small web search to discover whether it could be possible to to the same thing in Mac OS X or not, and the answer is… Continue reading »
