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Here's now to "remove" all partitions on a disk under Mac OS X by clobbering the partition map.

After one too many compilation errors due to a missing quote/brace/bracket/etc., I finally enabled Vim syntax highlighting. The rabbit hole: :syn on. These colors suck. Look for themes. 4 bit themes suck. Let’s set up an 8 bit color terminal. Leopard’s Terminal.app fails, install iTerm 0.9.6. iTerm works, but I use GNU screen all day. Recompile screen with --enable-colors256. screen [...]

Digest version: it's sweet.

Man the lifeboats.

The default Mac OS X 10.4 has a default configuration for delayed ACK that made some of my network operations unbearably slow, most notably Samba. This note on Mac OS X Hints fixed things for me, improving transfer speeds noticeably. The short version: add net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 to the end of /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot.

Hey, there it is.

Hint: it's supported.

Mostly UML.

"An application should always present a window when its Dock icon is clicked." Does anyone else find this feature slightly annoying?