Month: September, 2009

How to fix MacPorts after a Snow Leopard upgrade

When you upgrade to Snow Leopard, there’s a pretty good chance your MacPorts will be broken. The problem, apparently, is due to the switch to x64. The solution is to remove and reinstall everything ports related. The following worked for me.
First, make a list of your installed ports, and then remove them:
port installed > [...]

28 September, 2009 (12:35) | Mac, Tech | No comments

Torrents and NTFS-3G

If you’re a Linux or Mac user and sometimes download torrents, there’s a decent chance you have a couple of outboard hard drives to hold all that legal, public-domain data. If those drives are formatted as NTFS that probably means you are using the NTFS-3G filesystem driver. Unfortunately, because of the wildly parallel [...]

13 September, 2009 (11:55) | Tech | No comments