The Wacom Thorn in Lion’s Paw

On August 19, 2011, in All, Mac: 101, Tech, by Mr_Kitty

I just discovered at my most recent client appointment that the latest Wacom drivers for their professional line (e.g. Intuos, Cintiq, etc) aren’t compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Version 6.1.6-4 of their Wacom tablet drivers take an extra 40-60 seconds to start up after the user logs in, drawing in Photoshop and zBrush [...]

 

Mac OS X Security & Permissions

On April 21, 2008, in All, Mac: 101, Tech, by Mr_Kitty

This is a republishing of a response I posted on the Mac OS X tribe some time ago. Mac OS X inherited it’s file-level permissions scheme from it’s UNIX ancestors. The advantages of this approach are many fold, not limited to making it very difficult for malicious software to be installed on your system without [...]

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