If you have a large external hard drive that you wish to share between your Mac and Windows machines, you’ll find yourself in a dilemma: Windows offers no support for Mac-formatted (HPFS+) drives, while Mac OS X, out of the box, offers only read-only support for NTFS, the default file system for Windows XP and beyond. Mac [...]
Browsing Posts tagged Snow Leopard
Here is a tip for Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) users who use the Terminal application to SSH into remote hosts, such as Ubuntu server. I found that the “delete” key doesn’t work consistently when I’m using screen, clex, or other applications. The fix is in the Terminal configuration on the Mac. Go to [...]
For The Love of VLC
For years now I’ve relied on VLC Player for video playback on all my computers, whether they ran Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux (primarily Ubuntu). VLC is a fantastic program: it can play nearly any audio or video format you come across, it has tons of audio and video playback [...]
