Time Machine – Jon's View

Apple’s Time Machine is Losing Data

Posted on September 1, 2014July 5, 2016 by Jon Stacey

I discovered a critical bug in Apple’s implementation of Time Machine in OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 that causes the dissapearance of some data from backup snapshots. I highly suggest that you check the integrity of your backups to see if you are affected by this bug. If you are affected then

Mac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support

Posted on November 12, 2011November 12, 2011 by Jon Stacey

Ruby 1.9’s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was introduced to this problem for the first time with the error message `invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)`. This is a mini crash course for understanding the…