Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Why won’t airport auto join my network?
If you have a mac and use wireless to connect, you might expect that it will automatically join your wireless network after you tell it to “remember this network”. I know on my old powerbook it did, and on my girlfriend’s macbook it auto-joins too. So I started wondering why my macbook pro just wouldn’t [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Security Update Breaks SSH on OS X
If you installed Security Update 002 for leopard and suddenly ssh tells you “bus error”, the answer lies here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6863360#6863360
Apparently the guys at rogue amoeba have some work to do – we need instant hijack!
If you are too lazy to read that thread, the fix is:
sudo /usr/local/hermes/bin/hermesctl unload
thereby uninstalling instant hijack and fixing the problem. Somehow…
… [...]
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Xserve’s new iLo (LOM)
I was looking for a way to configure iLo (itegrated lights out) on the new Xserve. Funny thing is after googe and yahoo and searching like crazy all over the place, the one site I should have checked first had the answers 1 few clicks away. I found this doc on apple’s site in the [...]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
G.A.P. Part II – A Brief Review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 (macppc)
What follows is a rant/review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2. It’s the second part of the “Golden Apple Project” article series, which tells the tale of my quest to transform a formerly unused Apple PowerMac G4 (450Mhz, AGP Video) into something more useful than an unused OS 9 machine.
After a somewhat discouraging attempt at installing [...]
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
G.A.P. – The Golden Apple Project – Part I
The other day I acquired a hardly used PowerMac G4 from someone who was going to throw it out. Imagine that? It’s got a 450Mhz PPC CPU, 256MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and AGP video. Certainly this nice little machine can be used for something… But what?
Though I could probably get away with [...]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Using a 30G iPod Video With Linux
At first I thought this would be a simple thing to do. After all, linux has great FAT32 filesystem support right? All I would need to do is format my iPod for windows and then everything would be great… right?
Then I remembered that I don’t have windows running on any of my machines! [...]
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
How to install OpenBSD on an eMac (the hard way)
It’s easy to install OpenBSD on mac hardware the right way. Simply download what you need and follow the install guide. What’s not so easy is installing OpenBSD the wrong way. This guide is intended to help someone who may have gotten anxious and strayed from doing things The Right Way(tm) [see also, The Easy [...]