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I didn't make any changes to the permissions or anything like that. Weird. Whoops. Sorry for the double post. I couldn't merge this one to the one before it and then delete this one.

I ended up just rebooting the MacBook Pro and that seemed to have fixed it. I guess that having an uptime of close to 30 days - it didn't like that despite the OS being derived from *BSD.

I'll try DeltaMac's suggestion and if that doesn't work; I'll try this. Although I should think/hope that everything is governed by some kind of text file that I can edit with the CLI...but you never know. (yea...I'm rather comfortable with most of the CLI stuff; if I have to, as long as I...

Umm.....in that case, I'm not sure if I have sharing enabled or not. I'll have to check when I get home. I enabled root so that I can build a index of all files sitting on the drive (so that I know what tools I do and don't have (when compared to Linux/Solaris). If I don't enable it, I get a...

It's a correct/clarification on my comment that I wrote where I said that apparently you can write to a NTFS partition (which was true because it was mounted over SMB); but won't be true if someone were to try to attach a drive directly. Just CMA...

Regular Finder - yes, I can change folder names there. No shares have been defined on the MBP. (All of the file sharing/data is routed through my centralized servers.) I don't know. I've never tried changing the names of the folders in Launchpad. This is the first time that I'm trying it...

No no. Perhaps I wasn't very clear when I was writing it. The current system is actually hosted on a 2U server (12 bays, 10 of which are occupied by 3 TB drives), connected to an ARC-1230 12-port SATA 3 Gbps RAID HBA + an OS drive (I forget the size off the top of my head), which has a single...

How do I get to the Launchpad through Finder? (yes, I'm still very much a Mac n00b)

Hi. I don't know why this is but my 13" MBP (mid 2010) isn't letting me rename the folders in Launchpad at all. (ANY folder - doesn't matter whether it's ones that I just created or ones that's been there for a while.) Is there a way for me to do that via CLI or something like that? And...

@DeltaMac So apparently the reason WHY I could write to a NTFS partition/array (off my central server) is because it WAS being mounted (on the MBP) via SMB (which seems to be the default). So I'm not sure how it would perform without SMB, so just to clarify - OS X might still be read-only for...

"how does one determine what is the best use for that?" Realistically - by testing it. For Linux and Windows systems running computationally intensive tasks (Folding@Home, CFD, FEA); setting the processor affinity can result anywhere from a 5-14% performance INCREASE (because you...

@DeltaMac Here's another example of why I would like to download and compile some of the Solaris commands over: CPU affinity - in Solaris, you can set the processor affinity with pbind(1M). But suppose you have to create a subset of processor that you then want to bind the process to; you...

It looks like that you're looking for taskset. Apparently, from the looks of it; that is NOT available in OS X. And also according to this source, it says that the FreeBSD version of that is cpuset. Otherwise, it doesn't look like that it's possible at all. I wonder if you can actually...

Well...having done SOME advanced research is better than having done none at all. Sometimes. I actually downloaded Darwin like a realllly long time ago, but never got around to installing it so that I can play with it. But in some other respects, because of my grossly underqualified...

Thanks for the tips about the NTFS drivers. I did a bit of reading on Anandtech because they usually go quite in-depth (and also Arstechnica) about OS X; so I am somewhat familiar with some of what it can and can't do. But in terms of the intimate details; it's only now that I started using...