Case sensitive filesystems: The bane of Mac OS X
I now have a variety of applications that are incompatible with Mac OS X because I chose to install a case-sensitive filesystem 3 years ago when I got my Mac. Yes. THREE YEARS AGO. It has been possible to have a case sensitive filesystem (i.e., where files named READme, ReAdMe, and readme are all different files) for many years. Several major software vendors have been completely caught by this and failed to (a) account for it during development, (b) account for it in testing, or (c) provide any kind of solution.
The vendors that give me grief right now are:
- Logitech (Harmony Remote manager)
- Red Marble Games (Democracy 2)
- Adobe (Acrobat 9)
Now what really burns me up is that I just upgraded to Acrobat 9 from Acrobat 7 on Mac OS, and Acrobat 7 WORKED on a case-sensitive filesystem. It's a regression!
A guy’s take on laundry
I was doing laundry this weekend. I do about 0.01% of the loads of laundry in our household, on average, despite being responsible for about 1/3 to 1/2 of it, by volume. I observed something funny about how I do it, too.
For whatever reason, I always start with whites. After all, they need special handling (don't put the red T-shirt in with them, right Jenny?). It also seems like you get a lot done by starting with whites.