Archive for December, 2005
case-sensitive

Dali Clock is in countdown mode and I’m anxiously awaiting my leap second. Actually I accidentally read the spoiler and found out that OSX didn’t ever display 23:59:60.
Here’s another OSX oddity. When I installed Tiger I noticed that I had to choose other than the default to get a filesystem that advertised itself as case-sensitive. Talking to [Cadet] the other day I mentioned this to him and he tested on a factory install my hypothesis that OSX comes with a non-case-sensitive filesystem, but no one ever notices because the default shell is case sensitive. Maybe everyone already knew this, but it seems an odd feature under all that gui goodness. Try it out.

It’s official now. As much as I really thought he would change his mind at the last minute; my friend, coworker and bandmate Mark retired from the service. We’ll all miss him, but I suspect he’ll be around somewhere. In the last few weeks I’ve been shadowing him and I’ve heard a lot of offers passed around. Good luck, Mark.