Mac OS X
.Mac upgrade and your disk space
The new DotMac upgrades are great. 10 gig of storage is awesome, but watch out.
I noticed I was running really low on disk space on my MacBook Pro the other day, much lower than I realized. After digging around to free up space, I found that since the .Mac update, the sync’d local [...]
Bootcamp move in
Wow, it’s much more frustrating than I thought it would be to be running Windows on this MacBook. It totally works great, no problems…except it’s just frustrating. Something weird about it.
I’m sure I’ll get used to it though…and hopefully they’ll be a good solution before long that won’t require me to reboot into [...]
MacBook impressions
The MacBook arrived today. It’s very nice, and very fast. I also went through the Bootcamp setup process, and got a large portion of my Windows environment setup and installed quite a bit of software — no problems. It’s still going to be inconvenient to reboot to swap environments, but you do [...]
Bum permissions on /tmp and MySQL startup
Just killed an hour on getting MySQL running on my G5 at home. Thankfully, I found this blog post. Actually, I’m surprised that the bad permissions on /tmp haven’t bit me before now. I didn’t have this problem on two other machines I put MySQL on, but both of them had clean [...]
Rails 1.1 and OS X setup, part II
Oh, it would have been easier if I had found this earlier.
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Rails 1.1 and OS X setup
The release of Rails 1.1 today finally inspired me to finish moving my rails dev over to my mac, where it should have been in the first place. I’d toyed with using Locomotive, but decide to go with the proper install, based on the excellent instructions at Hivelogic. Probably didn’t pick the best [...]
TiVo and Tiger
I’m sure TiVo will have out a compatibility release of the TiVo Desktop soon, but in the meantime, these instructions worked for me to get v1.9.1 to run under Tiger.
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Tiger in the tank
My copy of Tiger shipped for delivery Friday afternoon. Whohoo! Bring on the Spotlight.
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Developing with Core Data
Developing with Core Data. Looks nice. This is the first I’ve heard of this, but I must admit I haven’t been following OS X development news much.
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