note to self

It’s interesting that there doesn’t seem to be that much information about Notes and Mac OS X since this site now seems to attract a lot of visitors from Google because of this post about gripes with Lotus Notes on OS X maybe I’ll slowly build up a resource page for things related to Notes. [...]

For the first time, Apple is recommending the use of anti-virus tools to protect Mac systems. I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner in all honesty. Apple systems are becoming more and more popular and as such they will become a target for the virus makers. The BBC website and The Register site both have more [...]

Looks like the SP3 update wasn’t tested on MacBook’s. I had a few excrutiating attempts to install and always being told I was 4MB short despite having 20GB free. There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also [...]

By default, Mac OS X’s Finder keeps system files – which generally start with a dot, like .trash – out of your sight. But that makes editing these files extremely difficult or if you want to find one really hard. In the Terminal type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder