Drew Thaler's Profile

Wow, the commenters are assholes. Don't take them as representative. Remember the battery fires last year? The first wave of reports were met with idiots saying "well duh, there's nothing wrong with Apple's perfect laptop, didn't you read the manual? obviously it's going to catch fire if you let it sit on carpet for more than a few minutes". Yeah, right, because flames and explosion are reasonable failure modes. Anyway, it's the same type of person here. Just ignore 'em. You didn't do anything wrong with either your article or your computer. (I'm a former Apple engineer who's worked in Powerbooks, CD burning, and CoreOS filesystems. I am speaking with some authority here.) The /usr folder is supposed to be hidden. No-ip's software bungled that, as you figured out. If you have the dev tools installed, the quickest way to re-hide it is to run this command in Terminal: "sudo /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /usr". Since Finder aggressively caches its view of the filesystem, you'll need to quit and relaunch the Finder to see the effect ... running "killall Finder" in Terminal will achieve that. You're not dumb. As your article made perfectly clear with ample humility, you're just at the natural stage between novice and expert. A novice never would've touched that folder out of sheer fear of breaking something. And an expert would have known what it was for. But when you're in the middle, well, as the saying goes: "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". :-) In the end, no permanent harm done. You found and reported a good bug, and now you know a little more than before. Good work all around, I'd say.