This is part of a series of articles from J. Scott Edwards about his pet project Objectify. – Editor History Right after Y2K I decided to resurrect a project I had started in the late ’70s to write an operating system. I started a project called EasyOS (1) on SourceForge to develop an OS based [...]

VMWare recently released Fusion 2.0 beta for the Mac, which we’re all desperately looking forward to. When you rely on stable software to earn your living, it’s not always a good idea to jump in to the latest beta releases with wild abandon. Unfortunately, the latest stable release (1.1.3) has some known problems with the [...]

  Last week, on the new MacHaxor site, I explained how to create an encrypted disk image on a mac, but there are similar tools available for Linux. TrueCrypt allows you to make all kinds of encrypted containers, but one of the most interesting is a hidden partition. The trick here is to convert all [...]

One of the main reasons that most people are afraid to try Linux is because they have this preconceived notion about linux being too hard to use and difficult to maintain; or that they have to do something drastically differ ant and there is a steep learning curve to using linux. After reading most of [...]