Monthly Archives: September 2006

Startup options for Terminal on OS X

Terminal gives you the option to store saved terminal settings in a .term file. Things such as window size, location, etc. You can then specify to automatically open one of those saved .term files on startup of Terminal, and you can also set a startup command for that window. What you probably DON’T want to

Michael Gambon as Albertus Dumbledore

I just finished watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I actually watched the third, fourth , and fifth movies this weekend, and I’m not agreeing with how Michael Gambon plays Dumbledore. I always got the sense in the books that Dumbledore was not unfailable, but unflappable. I don’t get that sense here at

OS X backup and reinstall

These are notes about backing up all and reinstalling from scratch for OS X 10.4.7. I backed up to 10 DVDs and a CD for those last minute files that I forgot. Partitioning Normally, when I do an install of OpenBSD or FreeBSD, I partition things out so the home directories are on a separate