a bird to bring my message home
Unless you live under the sea, you know a few ways to run windows apps on a Mac. Obviously, the only ‘windows apps’ worth having are games, which means DirectX support. Options include:
BootCamp is pretty fast, but rebooting into windows is no way to spend your time.
Parallels somehow trashed my BootCamp partition. We hates it.
VMware Fusion [...]
Happy New Thing.
So anyway, Adam Leventhal found out AAPL hamstrung DTrace w.r.t. certain apps on Leopard (iTunes at least). Cue inevitable Slashdottian outrage.
When source code gets released under a license everyone (so long as they follow those terms) gets to port, extend, or shout about how your license isn’t free at all really. They can even choose to ignore [...]
I enabled FileVault on my MBP and cancelled the conversion when I saw how long it was going to take. When I tried to re-enable it again today, I got an error saying
could not create filevault disk image
Google wasn’t very helpful, so I’m noting down the fix here, which is:
sudo rm -r /Users/Shared/username.sparsebundle
Turns out FileVault [...]
