Monthly Archives: July 2011

Investigation of the /etc/hosts issues in OS X 10.7 (Lion)

I got bored today and decided to investigate the issues people have been having with their /etc/hosts entries in OS X 10.7. A lot of people have reported a ton of random issues ranging from the hosts file not being consulted at all to odd issues with IPv6 and multiple addresses on the same line […]

Reasons to not upgrade MacOS X 10.6 to 10.7

Things I have found so far (only listing things that seem impossible to turn off or fix, not retarded default settings): Safari’s scrolling now lets you move the viewport around in the window, like it does on the iPhone. No, I don’t want web pages to sorta jiggle around sideways when I’m scrolling up or […]

The SSH client in MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) has broken(?) UTF8 support

I upgraded to 10.7 today, only to find that my IRC client (Irssi running in a screen on a remote server) suddenly had decided that it hated any and all non-ASCII characters, replacing them with ?’s instead. In the local terminal everything worked just fine. I use UTF-8 as the terminal charset on both the […]