Archive for the ‘OS X’ Category

Better GMail Causes 100% CPU Usage in Firefox

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

For the last several weeks, I've noticed excessive CPU usage whenever GMail (GAYD-hosted email, specifically) is open in Firefox. By turning off add-ons one at a time, I found that this is caused solely by Better GMail 2. Firebug, FireGPG, Greasemonkey (on which Better GMail relies), and AdBlock Plus all ...

Making OS X Command Line Behave More Like Linux (GNU)

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The command-line oddities of Mac OS X's BSD heritage drive me insane. I much prefer the behavior of the GNU toolchain, as provided by Ubuntu Linux. To begin, first install MacPorts. MacPorts Installation Variant +with_default_names With several MacPorts packages, the +with_default_names variant may be specified. This causes package contents to be ...