This post is part of the MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! Since I first wrote […]

A much-overlooked perk of Mac OS X’s BSD underpinnings is the presence of full-fledged support for NFS (network file system) in every shipping version of the operating system. This support serves as the underlying technology for the “Network Domain,” the fourth member of a family of directory hierarchies that also includes the System, Local, and […]

This post is part of the MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! I’m the (mostly) happy […]

(Note: The title of this entry is an homage to Aldous Huxley’s classic Doors of Perception.) Most Mac users and many developers don’t realize how extensively windows are used in the composition of the overall UI experience on Mac OS X. In the years since Mac OS X was first released, the basic “Quartz Window” […]