Last night there were several brownouts, which may or may not affected how my laptop slept. A rare sleep disorder causes problems when waking up: Right after opening my machine, it spontaneously reboots rather than, er, staying awake. This occurred only once or twice in the past year, but when it did, MAMP passed away […]
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Macworld Expo 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008
It’s that time of the year for another Macworld convention in San Francisco. The Moscone South and West arrangement was confusing, though, with many visitors (such as ourselves) going between the two, trying to find registration and/or not realizing that both buildings contained exhibitors. Played with the MacBook Air. Oh, my, it felt thinner than […]
Upgrade to Leopard
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Last week I upgraded my laptop from Tiger to Leopard. The process went quite smoothly. Backed up to an external firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. Restarted with Leopard disk, and selected Archive and Install. Customized the installation by deselecting X11, most of the languages, and all but the Canon and Lexmark printer drivers. (Sheez, […]
MAMP: Macintosh, Apache, MySQL & PHP
Sunday, 5 November 2006
Through Michael Doig’s excellent tutorial, I recently discovered MAMP, a free package which provides recent builds of Apache, MySQL and PHP as a standalone installation on Mac. It’s geared towards local server development on a machine, as opposed to live sites, so it’s great for testing out stuff like WordPress locally. Unfortunately, MAMP has issues. […]