Ridiculous Fish has another article working over a bad benchmark of OS X vs Linux and XP. It appears that the article has been rewritten or at least amended to deal with the fact that it was missing significant facts in the first place and so it may be replaced by a new set of benchmarks. In the end, it was a pretty simple, but rather technical problem that was solved easily with the application of readily available tools. Thanks to the community for helping point this guy in the right direction.