Osx on Bulrush Labs — Richard Tibbetts

Non-Destructive Process Inspection on OSX: Blog Post Recovery

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:13:00 +0000

Moments ago I was writing a different blog post, about home renovation. Unfortunately just as I posted it a bug in ecto, the aging client I still use to edit blog posts, caused the complete loss of the text with no backup copies. Because messing about with system tools is more fun than rewriting that blog post, I present instead a brief howto for creating a core dump on OSX without killing a process, and inspecting that core dump to attempt to recover your data.

Switching to OSX, productivity and development tools

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:11:00 +0000

Two weeks ago I got a new laptop from work. After extensive hemming and hawing, I went with an Apple MacBook (the black one, cause it looks hotter^Wmore professional). Previous to this I had been running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T40 bought around the founding of StreamBase. My goal for the change was to have a laptop that would “just work”, and to stop having to administer my personal machine. I was last on a Mac when I was in grad school.