Posts for macintosh
Changing a user's home directory on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
After a botched PostgreSQL upgrade, I managed to leave my postgresql user with a non-existent home directory. Here's how to fix this on Snow Leopard.
Firefox won't start after upgrading to Snow Leopard
My upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard went pretty smoothly - except for Firefox, which steadfastly refused to start. No error messages, nothing. Just a single dock bounce, and goodnight.
VMWare Fusion guests with a static IP
The article that I followed to get a static IP for VMWare fusion guests seems to have been removed, so in the name of preserving this knowledge I'm reproducing the salient parts here.
BBC iPlayer "...temporarily unavailable. Please try again later"
I got the dreaded "(programme) is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later" while using the BBC iPlayer desktop AIR app. Fixing it was simple... once I found out how.
Erlang Bus Error
I've become interested in CouchDB, written in Erlang. My copy of the 'Programming Erlang' book arrived today, so I tried to fire up the Erlang shell - only to be greeted with a Bus Error.
Creating a Python 2.4, Plone and Zope Development Environment on Mac OS X Leopard
Compiling Python, Zope and Plone on Leopard isn't as easy as it is on Linux. Here's a walkthrough of the process, from a bare Leopard install right through to having a working Plone 3 development environment, using paster and buildout.
Error compiling PostgreSQL 8.3 on Leopard: 'rl_completion_matches'
This is a brief note for those having trouble compiling the latest version of PostgreSQL on Leopard.
Mac OS X command and manual search path (PATH and MANPATH for man)
Mac OS X Leopard provides a simple way to manage your system-wide PATH and MANPATH for command and man pages.
