Personally, I think the Mac OS X unix userland is rotten. There are apple tools mixed with some current unix tools and there are outdated unix tools like locate. Maybe you didn’t even notice that but locate for example doesn’t even know the -i option for case insensitive lookups in the locate.datbase. As usual, you […]
A couple of days ago I found this cute little game for OS X called »Chopper«. I played it several times but I couldn’t make it to the last level although I played it on »easy«. Since it is open source I thought I could compile it with more lives but unfortunetly it didn’t compile […]
I found several and somewhat complex solutions for this particular problem but actually it’s a no-brainer once you know. Simply type: hukl$ script/server -h => Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) Usage: server [options] -p, –port=port Runs Rails on the specified port. Default: 3000 -b, –binding=ip Binds Rails to the specified ip. Default: […]
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. […]