Category os x

SuperDuper! tomorrow?

It looks like Shirt Pocket is planning on releasing a Leopard compatible version of SuperDuper! tomorrow.

SuperDuper! update

Dave Nanian from Shirt Pocket Software blogs about the trials and tribulations of getting SuperDuper! updated for Leopard. The post includes some interesting details, for instance: The funky new directory hard links that Time Machine uses are available to other applications (I did not know that!)

I’m glad they are taking this much care to get [...]

Time Machine and a new motherboard

It looks like its backup week here at rebelog headquarters…
Apparently TimeMachine uses the MAC (MAC as in “Media Access Control” not Mac as in “Macintosh”) address of your ethernet port to identify its backups. If you change your motherboard (like I just did with my MBP) then your MAC address changes and Time Machine will [...]

D’oh!

After installing Leopard on my MBP I noticed that Mail wouldn’t allow me to do “Entire Message” searches. The “Entire Message” button was greyed out.
I tried rebuilding all of my mailboxes in Mail and forcing an index by calling:
mdimport ~/Library/Mail
Neither helped.
It turns out the MBP’s boot drive had somehow been added [...]

Leopard: WebObjects Notes

Leopard is out and with it comes a slew of WebObjects changes. The release of WO 5.4, the official deprecation of the tool chain (which we’ve known was coming for some time), Apache 2 support, etc.
There’ve been some posts to the webobjects-dev list which I consider required reading. I don’t know if this stuff has [...]