Having trouble with Terminal not remembering your aliases? A lot of documentation on the web talks about configuring tcsh or csh in Mac OS X. I was scratching my head for a while wondering why my ~/.tcshrc file wasn’t defining my aliases on login (or my ~/.login file for that matter, that the system created!).
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Two weeks ago I swapped out my Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB HDD for an Intel X25-M 80GB. I didn’t want to post my impressions prematurely so held out a couple of weeks.

I took the opportunity to upgrade to Snow Leopard at the same time – as I was performing a clean install of OS X. First thing I did was move my user directory on to my second hard drive (a Seagate 7200.4 320GB), to redirect writes away from my SSD.
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Thanks to this blogger who made real UK keyboard layouts that work under Snow Leopard. I couldn’t get alternative community created UK layouts, that previously worked in Leopard, to work under Snow Leopard. Read the rest of this entry »

Like a lot of people, I ditched my desktop in 2007 and moved to a laptop as my main computer. I take my Macbook Pro to work everyday and it’s also my personal computer at home.

To make life simpler I have an almost identical network set up at home as we do in the office, using the same DHCP range and gateway address (our dev server is also our gateway in the office). So the development server I SSH into at work has the same IP as my home linux box. At work we have internal DNS set up, I’m a little more lazy at home and just refer to my linux box by IP.
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Yesterday I finally got around to removing my flakey superdrive from my Macbook Pro and replaced it with an optical bay hard disk (OBHD) from NewModeUS. This meant I was able to add another 320GB drive where my superdrive once lived (much needed as I was at 92% disk usage on my system drive). I also have an Intel X25-M 80GB to install but I’ll save that for when I have the time.
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As of Javascript 1.6 indexOf() is a method available for use with Arrays. However, there’s one subtle difference when operating on a String and an Array, both are case sensitive, Array.indexOf() is type sensitive. This is documented but for those of you who’ve not bothered with the documentation, and it’s not working as expected, here’s a heads up on a subtle gotcha …
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