OSX has no problem reading Microsoft NTFS-formatted disks, but writing to them is another story. I need this functionality to work with various external drives and USB keys that need to be shared with Windows machines.
It turns out that this capability can be had without too much hassle using the procedure below.
Before you even [...]
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After a couple of months, my indoctrination into the world of all-things-Mac is coming along nicely. Once I made it over the "how does this work in OS X?" hurdle, I set my sights on replacing the daily-use applications from my Windows life, resulting in the list below.
Hopefully it will grease the skids for [...]
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There was something of a kerfuffle over the last week when CherryOS (page now disabled) claimed that Mac OS X could be used with any old Intel architecture computer as a virtual machine. As time passes, the website has gone missing and it seems more and more likely that CherryOS is a complete rip-off [...]
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