After my Open Firmware tip last week several patients wrote in about starting up in Single User Mode or Verbose mode. But, before I explain, I'd like to mention that several patients said that Open Firmware tip was "just the ticket," and that it cured a n

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5 Reasons Anyone Loves Macs

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The Mac OS X command line interface is home to thousands of programs that the average user doesn’t know exists. Leveraging years of hard work by the GNU foundation and others in the open source community, Apple designed a wonderful OS that doesn’t “

In 2002, the English government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion, and two Members of Parliament say the project is "sle

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