setting JAVA_HOME in Snow Leopard

I had to google this myself but am posting here in case the few people reading this blog might use it.

One interesting thing I didn't realize is that Apple includes a bunch of the older JDKs for backwards compatibility I guess.

me@mylaptop$ ls /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework …

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OSX: Under the covers with "defaults write" tweaks

I recently bought a new quad-core i7 MacBook Pro for personal/work use and needed to bring over some "useful" tweaks I've found over time.
These are some changes I always make to a new OSX Install. All commands are run via shell.

Prevent Creation of .DS_Store files on …

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