Posts tagged with: leopard

Installing Habari isn't really that complicated, however getting OS X up and running ready for the installation requires a bit of work. Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) conveniently comes with Apache 2 and PHP 5, so most of the work in setting up a MAMP server has already been done for you. Sure there are other ways to get a MAMP setup: you can build Apache, MySQL and PHP from sources, you can use MacPorts or you can use pre-built packages like MAMP or XAMPP. I prefer to use as much of what is supplied with the OS as possible as there's no point having duplicate applications on a system. It also makes keeping them up-to-date much easier - it becomes Apple's job, not mine. Anyway, in order to get all the way through this article there are a couple of requirements: 1. You have XCode installed 2. You're fairly comfortable in using the command line. This last requirement isn't strictly true as I will provide all the commands you need to run anyway. The rest of this post assumes you've not configured PHP, Apache or MySQL on OS X at all yet. If you have, don't worry, I'm sure you'll be able to easily pick things up. NOTE: There is one caveat with this approach: Apple's updates may require you to redo any one of the steps below as it may replace files you've modified or provide newer incompatible versions of software. Update: You can find details on installing gd on OS X as a universal binary for 32-bit and 64-bit here. Continue reading ►

The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time. It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the "Start MySQL Server" / "Stop MySQL Server" button doesn't do anything. Well, today I finally got it working. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

I didn't know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac: Continue reading ►

You've upgraded to OS X Leopard, played with Time Machine, tweaked things to your heart's content and now you want to play with something else cool you've heard has made it's way into OS X - ZFS. Unfortunately, Apple have only bundled read-only support for ZFS to date, but we'll be changing that. WARNING: ZFS read-write support is still very experimental and if you're not careful, it WILL crash your Mac. Right, now we've got the warning out of the way, lets get cracking. Continue reading ►

I've just upgraded to OS X Leopard, but I made a school boy error - I forgot to ensure all my applications were Leopard compatible BEFORE I did this. The upgrade went smoothly, however I couldn't login as myself into the graphical interface. I could login remotely over SSH, but any attempts to login via the GUI resulted in Finder hanging and giving me the lovely bouncing beach ball. For some reason, my other users didn't have this problem. At first I thought this was due to the login startup items I have, but moving loginwindow.plist out of the way ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007: System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn't enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, this one probably will. Sun's ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstood - How's this for a rave review of ZFS. If you've tried ZFS, read this article and get out there and play with it. It's in OS X Leopard, FreeBSD,... Continue reading ►

Cooool. Mac OS X Leopard will have DTrace built into it when it's released. Now I can debug the crap performance I get on my Mac every once in a while the Solaris way. Update: Check out Bryan Cantrill's blog entry for a more details. Looks like it won't be a crippled implementation either.