As referenced in Mac OS X Hints, Lion comes with a built-in wireless diagnostics application that will show you clear Signal & Noise level graphs as well as allowing you to capture raw packet data. Pretty cool (and somehow, not included in Lion’s feature list)! /System/Library/Core Services/Wi-Fi Diagnostics.app
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 [...]
This is in response to TAUW article: Get the “out of the box” experience with an older Mac. The above article is good, but the steps are limited to regenerating the Setup Assistant. The steps in the comments for deleting the user account are for Tiger (10.4.x) and do not work on Leopard (10.5.x), since [...]
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 [...]
