Fortysomething Geek

I notice something interesting with the new Guest login on Yosemite. If you have an encrypted file-system, the guest login is completely dif...

Apple released a BASH update that addresses the vulnerabilities of ShellShock but they neglected operating systens older than 10.7 L...

Mac OS 7 had this back in the mid 1990s. Now, you can have this same feature on Ubuntu 14.04 in 2014. Mac OS calls it labels. This is ba...

I've been asked how do I make such beautiful desktop drive icons on my mac. Pretty simply, I find a picture I like, remove the back...

I've been asked quite a bit on this blog, offline and via email about Mac Virtualization. Specifically, virtualizing old Mac OSX serv...

If you just recently installed OSX 10.9, Mavericks, you will be pleasantly surprise to know IP over Thunderbolt (Thunderbolt Ethernet / Brid...

Here is a pretty cool terminal app for Mac OSX. Called, Cathode , it brings back some retro fun (for those over 30). It is $10 at the app st...

Here is something you don't see too often. Here, I have Pear OS 7 which is a Ubuntu based Linux distribution running on my Thinkpad. ...

My blog was one of the first to write about UAS/UASP (USB Attached SCSI) on the Mac OSX platform last summer. I've been writing about it...

If there was ever a reason to get a $15 pogoplug hacked to run Arch Linux, this article may sway you. I'm going to show you how ...

I've decided to publish the result of my 3 months with a Hackintosh. I have a few Macs and Macbooks around the houses and wanted a...