Install cvs2svn on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
The current version of cvs2svn fails on Tiger with the error message ERROR: your installation of Python does not contain a suitable DBM module -- cvs2svn cannot continue. See...
View ArticleThe State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X
Introduction Back in the days of OS 9, backing up files was fairly easy. One would just use the Finder to copy files and directories to another volume, and be done. The simplicity, unfortunately, is...
View ArticleApple’s asr Badly Broken in Mac OS X 10.4.6?
In my article The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X, I investigated the metadata preservation capabilities of several command-line utilities, among them Apple’s asr (Apple Software...
View ArticleFile Creation Dates on Mac OS X: Clash of the Cultures
Yesterday, an interesting discussion about file metadata has begun on darwin-dev. Apple's Jordan Hubbard argued how file creation dates should not be preserved when copying files. In this piece, I...
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