Monthly Archives: June 2008

Re-install of Leopard

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I reinstalled Leopard today since my OS had become slow and sluggish, xcode wasn’t installing correctly and this install was kinda dodgy (it had been upgraded, backed up with time machine and restored twice, and been trashed). I’ve cut down on the ammount of silly applications I have, and have just restored the ones I need. The general install was nice and I done it in less than a night, including all the restoring and that. 

What I really liked about the reinstall is that OS X makes it so easy to restore stuff. All the main data is kept nicly orangised in folders that are easily accessible, unlike Windows. I’m only restoring the data I need, rather than everything so that has been a big bonus.

Digital Signing – Ruining open source dev

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Open source software typically runs from the hearts of developers that want to share their projects. Most of these projects have no reliable income and struggle to pay for hosting let alone digital signatures. Without digital signatures users feel like the software they are running is bad for the computer, a virus or trojan. People are starting to learn about digital signatures and their importance and it won’t be long until these are more heavily forced in operating systems. Open source projects will be greatly effected by digital signatures, and only the leet will be able to use free software.