For quite some time I’m trying to figure out how I could use old and current Apple hardware as decent server platform. Somebody was asking why I wasn’t using Linux or BSD operating systems which are known to work smoothly. Actually I’m using FreeBSD where ever I can for servers but installing and running FreeBSD […]
The last couple of days I tried to set up an old G4 with OS X 10.4 Tiger to work as a webserver. I didn’t want to run the apache / php that ships with Tiger because these versions are far behind the current versions. So I installed everything via macports which worked pretty smooth. […]
I just got a new computer and one of the first things is to install rails and postgresql. For some reason this worked smoothly on my old Powerbook but I installed everything clean on my MacBookPro and for some reason it didn’t work so well. I install everything with MacPorts and the location of Postgres […]
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This is a weird one. For some reason I lost my entire Jabber contact list. So if you still want to have (at least) virtual contact with me all you have to do is to re-add me to your contact list and re-request authorization from me. In exchange you get authorization back from me and […]