For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]

Way back in the day when tape drives first started being heavily used to do backups of Unix machines, the dump command was created. In typical Unix simplicity the dump command “dumps” files from one device to another device. This can be a tape drive, a hard drive, even a network share. rsync does a [...]

Every once in a while you’ll here or read about an absolutely awesome command line utility or X11 program that you must have. After consulting the great Oracle, Google you find that the program you want is in Macports which for those who are not comfortable at the command line may cause some issues. Fear [...]