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.
So [...]

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 on [...]

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 want [...]

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