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Comment on Upgrading a Mac OS X Server from 10.3.9 to 10.4.6 by mr_kitty

mr_kitty — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:16:42 +0000

Hello,

I ran into your site whilst looking for tips on upgrading OSX server. To answer your question… “How can you work on an x-serve drive, without having a second x-serve?”

Well, the Apple Drive Module — tho not supported — is relatively easy to upgrade. You could setup on a Mac Pro or any SATA drive connected via Firewire and then put that disk into the ADM later.

Alternatively — if you are squeamish about violating the ADM — you could setup on a Firewire drive, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner (or SuperDuper, or dd, if you really want to get all commandliney) to copy the installation over to your second ADM in the Xserve. Any of these utilities can be run from your active server OS, and fairly reliably produce a identical and bootable disk.

Comment on Leopard, lookupd and local web development sites by Martin Cleaver

Martin Cleaver — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:15:36 +0000

Can you delete my comment about address vs. local - it’s wrong.

Please add:

$ nslookup
> server 127.0.0.1
Default server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
> b.dev.
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

** server can’t find b.dev: REFUSED
> b.localsites.
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

Name: b.localsites
Address: 127.0.0.1

Comment on Leopard, lookupd and local web development sites by Martin Cleaver

Martin Cleaver — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:08:28 +0000

Steps #2 and #3 are identical!

It looks like instead of using

# Add domains which you want to forcing particular IP addresses using
address=/.localsites/127.0.0.1

We can use the local domain feature:

# Add local-only domains here, queries in these domains are answered
# from /etc/hosts or DHCP only.
local=/dev/

Probably best to explain why you don’t want dnsmasq to read /etc/hosts because the Mac’s dscacheutil will read it anyway.

Maybe get users to use -d while testing / verifying that it’s working:

sudo /opt/local/sbin/dnsmasq -d

As for your last problem - I don’t know… I’ve been searching for hours. Likely it can be scripted using the scutil code from the bottom of http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/branches/vpnc-0.4.0-hybrid/vpnc-script

Hope that helps!
Martin.

Comment on Virtual BCF2000 Version 1.1 by SteamSHIFT

SteamSHIFT — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:07:51 +0000

Stay tuned for some really exciting developments over the coming weeks … (a BCR2K version would be just the tip of the iceberg!)

Comment on Virtual BCF2000 Version 1.1 by nils

nils — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:04:06 +0000

Hey this is super exciting!
Is there any plan to extend the project to the BCR2000 as well?
Thank you for making apps like this.
Rock on.
N

Comment on Cat Mask Test by SteamSHIFT

SteamSHIFT — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:32:56 +0000

I have a suspicion that when I made the test, quicktime could display swf files which I think it no longer can. I may be wrong on that of course!

Comment on Cat Mask Test by Lango

Lango — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:17:24 +0000

Hey

I’m enjoying going through your site.

However I downloaded your quartz file but i can’t see the cat. I noticed their was a type with ./cat1.swf instead of ./cat.swf, i fixed that up but it still doesnt work.

I’m using the latest version of quartz composer on leopard.

Comment on Have a chat with a ‘SmarterChild’ by baybaygrl964

baybaygrl964 — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:11:34 +0000

you should leave a thing up so that we can chat with smarter child

Comment on Category Cloud WordPress Widget by Guybrush

Guybrush — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:58:02 +0000

Hello! I was wondering whether I can have more than 30 categories in my cloud. I’ve tried changing the default, but even though I’ve pressed ’save changes’, it keeps going back to 30 and the extra ones don’t show up on my blog. Much thanks!

Comment on Export and Import MySQL via the command line by Eric

Eric — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:04:32 +0000

Quite nice, needed this information to insert more than 500.000 instructions into a database using the commandline!

Thx!