Which software RAIDs are supported by Disk Utility?
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…
What factors influce the decision to install Mac OS X on HFS+ versus UFS?
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…
Mac OS X supports which types of fonts? (brief primer on each font type)
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…
How can you use Font Book to install fonts?
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…
What are the different places fonts can be installed manually?
~/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,…
What is the search path that Mac OS X uses when searching for resources (like fonts), and why would something like this matter in a multi-user environment with many shared and unshared fonts?
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…
Whats the gotcha when trying to restrict access by setting the parent folder to READ ONLY and the files contained within to READ & WRITE?
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…
When setting permission on folders and files contained within, if the parent folder is READ ONLY, what can be done with that file?
– 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…
When setting permission on folders and files contained within, if the parent folder is READ & WRITE, what can be done with that file?
– 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…
What is fast user switching and what are its limitations?
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…