Wesley's Tool-Box

There had been mentions of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) pre-release builds supporting read/write support for NTFS (native file system for current Windows versions). Read-only NTFS support was available since Tiger (10.4) days, so this was an interesting development. Unfortunately, read/write support was apparently dropped in the final release build of SL.

It turns out the support is still there, but disabled by default. This post by Chrysaor at MacRumors shows how to modify fstab to force an NTFS partition to mount in read/write mode. The drawback of this trick is that you have to manually do it to every partition you want to mount, and you need to unmount and remount the partition after applying the trick to get it to work. Hardly elegant, mind you.

Luckily, there is a much simpler and elegant way. Click below to find out.

After nine months of waiting, and 7 hours of labour later, my first child has come out to the world. We've decided to call her Celine. Born on 10:33AM Korea Standard Time, she weighs 2.6155kg and is 45.8cm tall right now. She's really tired right now just like her mom, but I'm hoping to see her smile soon.

I'm waiting outside the local hospital's delivery room as the nurses get to prepare my wife for delivering our first baby. She's been having acute contractions since around midnight and couldn't sleep, so I drove her to the hospital to check the progress... and the nurse told me that we'll probably see the newborn by this morning.

I hope all goes well. It's exactly one week earlier than expected.

I've gotten Snow Leopard on the server a week ahead of schedule. Yes, this website is running on Snow Leopard right now. My wife is expecting the baby in a couple of weeks, so I decided to get on with any time-consuming stuff early. The website seems to be running okay, so far...