Macs

Changing ANSI colors in Terminal on Macs

Posted by Michael on September 9, 2008 in General, Servers, Systems

Probably the most frustrating experience I have had with Macs so far is figuring out how to change the ANSI colors in Terminal (Terminal.app) so that I can read the outputs of man and most especially ls and comments in vi when colorization is activated and I have chosen a dark background theme.
I am using [...]

Why Macs?

Posted by Michael on May 8, 2008 in Macs, Systems

For Years, I have used nothing but Microsoft Windows desktops and my development effort was 100% Windows based systems. Long story, short, lets just say I knew way more about the inner bowels of Windows and its various API’s than I will ever care to recall nowadays. Around 2001, I realized “The Web” [...]