Installing NTFS-3G on your Mac OS X will render your Windows drives invisible from your "Startup Disk" preference pane. [1] They suggested disabling or uninstalling to bring the disappeared drive back. But I accidentally see a Windows partition in my VMWare Virtual Machine Library.

Wth with my sort?

$ ls -al | sort -n +4
sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory

Convert plist binary to xml, back and forth.

plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist

plutil -convert binary1 some_other_file.plist

To check, use file something.plist

Leopard Re Installation: Part 2

I reformat using the same filesystem my external hard drive uses. Then set UID to 1000 in the System Preferences > Accounts > Advanced Options (right click on username). After that chown whole home directory.

Leopard Re Installation: Backup & Restore Issue

I wanted to replace my OS X Server because of lack of Internet Sharing feature. So I do both Time Machine backup and manual backup before making a fresh OS X installation. These are the issue that I faced.

Restoring using Time Machine right after Leopard Installation is not as I expected. There will be folders like 'System (from old mac)', 'Applications (from old mac)'. For me, this is not neat.

Your OSX filesystem must have the same format as your Time Machine backup filesystem. I'm using HFS Journaled with Case Sensitive, but my external hard disk is using HFS Journaled NOT with Case Sensitive. I have to reformat either my OS X partition, or my external hard disk.

Restoring files from Time Machine is strict because of UID. My user uses 501 as UID but my last Server system was using 1000 as UID. So restoring could get complicated.

Right now I'm going to change my UID and reboot and see what will happen.