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Z E V O: ZFS For Mac is Slowly Coming Back

I was quite excited to see Apple include rudimentary ZFS support in OS X several years ago and was quite disappointed when they decided against using and enhancing it within OS and whipped it out of OS X. I suspect there may have been a bit of toy throwing (out of prams) between Apple and Sun way back then, but that's all water under the bridge.  Continue reading ►

HOWTO: Install Habari on Mac OS X Leopard, From Scratch

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 installed2. 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 ►

OpenOffice 3.0 for Mac PPC

If, like me, you're not made of money and are still running a PowerPC Mac, you would have no doubt been a bit disappointed to hear only an Intel version of OpenOffice 3.0 was released to the world.  Continue reading ►
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