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Running emacs -nw in Terminal.app on my Mac has been pretty frustrating, until today. To fix the experience, download and install KeyRemap4MacBook (I sure hope it's not malware). Click on "Change Key." Scroll down until you find "For Applications." Expand that to "Enable at only Terminal" and select "Change Command_L to Option_l." Expand "Change Slash(/) Key" and select "Control+Slash(/) to Control+Underscore(_)." You might also want to select "Switch next and prev tab in terminal with shift and arrows (like Gnome term)." All better.

I have a Mac laptop at work and it's been interesting to play with. We have nfs mounted home directories for our Linux workstations and I thought, hey, my Mac is a UNIX machine, it should be able to mount that nfs export too! Turns out, no, not by default. You get a nice "Operation not permitted" error message. The problem is that Mac nfs clients insist on using high numbered TCP ports, and Linux nfs servers by default insist on rejecting clients that use high numbered TCP ports. You can tell the Linux server to stop rejecting clients using high numbered ports with the insecure option in /etc/exports , or you can tell your Mac client to stop using high ports with the resvport option to your mount command. Most websites I found while googling for this just listed the Linux nfs server solution, which works fine if you have control over the server. Most people have a lot more control over their client. For autofs on the Mac, put ,resvport at the end of the /net ...

My employer just supplied me with a MacBook Pro running OS X Version 10.6.1 (is that a little redundant?). For a long time I have eyed macs with wary suspicion, but with a lot of curiosity too. If Microsoft is evil, as some like to say, because it locks customers in to its proprietary software, Apple must be at least twice as evil. They lock customers in to their software *and* hardware! I kind of like the new laptop, though. Mechanically, it's awesome. The aluminum body feels nice and solid. The lid doesn't latch when it closes, it just kind of (magnetically?) holds to the body. The buttons and USB slots and everything are also very nicely done. The display is one of those glossy ones for "brighter colors" and I hate the glare. The user interface has me all confused with buttons and menus in places I'm not used to. It has this fancy new mouse trackpad that is huge and it lest you do multi-finger stuff kind of like an iPhone (which I don't have). T...