December 2004

RAID 0 - striping - stores data accross several disks, (100 GB drive + 100 GB drive becomes a 200 GB appearing as 1 hard drive icon) improves speed when writing to the drives because it writes to both drives at the same time. RAID...

HFS+ is case-preserving but case-insensitive. This means you can create a file name File1 and it will save the capital F when you view the file again. However, you cannot add another file named file1 to this folder because it makes no distinction between the...

TrueType Apple-create font type introduced during Mac OS 9. PostScript Type 1 Original vector-based font type, supported by many different operating systems. OpenType - a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems Bitmap - legacy, based on pixels...

The Font Book (available 10.3) application allows you to install fonts into ~/Library/Fonts, /Library/Fonts, or /System Folder/Fonts. You do this by selection for me only, for all users of this computer, or for Classic Mac OS respectively. If you are logged in as a Normal user...

~/Library/Fonts -- will be accessible only that user Alternatively, to make fonts accessible to all users, you can install them into either of: /Library/Fonts /Network/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts if Classic is installed, Classic fonts will be installed with your system folder. The classic fonts are available to Mac OS X applications and...

The search path is 1. User (~/Library) 2. Local (/Library) 3. Network (/Network/Library) 4. System (/System/Library) If you have fonts with the same names, OS X will use the font with the desired name that it finds first in the search path. ...

Some applications require saving temporary files to the folders during the Save process. This happens in the background and cant be seen by the user, but if the folder the user is trying to save to is READ ONLY--- although the file they are trying...

- cant be deleted - cant be renamed Note: the user may still be able to EDIT the file if the files permissions are set to READ & WRITE. If the files permissions are set to READ ONLY, then the user will not be able to do...

- can be deleted - can be renamed Note that the user can edit this file if the file is set to READ & WRITE, but if the file is set to READ ONLY, the user will not be able to edit the file directly. However,...

Fast user switching allows you to switch between user accounts while other user accounts are still open. In Mac OS X 10.3, FUS was enablable. It it enabled in System Prefernces -> Accounts. To switch, you select the users name from the menu in the...