Category: MacBook
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MySQL 64bit, Perl 32bit and OS X Leopard
This is a little tip on how to get Perl(32bit) working with a 64bit version of MySQL on OS X Leopard.
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Apple MacBook Hard Drive Goes Kplunk!
After downloading from iTunes and watching episode 3 of the second season of Sleeper Cell: American Terror, my MacBook completely froze up and wouldn’t respond to anything. I don’t think it was some terrorist plot to thwart my viewing of Sleeper Cell but I was forced to power off the machine and since then I…
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Apple MacBook vs. Lenovo ThinkPad – Final!
Well, as much as I love OS X, the MacBook just wasn’t cutting it for me. The MacBook is a great computer for people who want to get things done and not have to worry about the underlying technology. I need to be able to get things done without futzing with configurations, but I also…
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Fedora Core 6 is Available
As scheduled, Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24th, 2006. I’ve upgraded a Dell PowerEdge to FC6 but that was after creating a bootable CD. Apparently, the diskboot.img that is used to create bootable USB flash drives wasn’t working for me. Upgrading FC5 to FC6 had a few issues like an i586 kernel being…
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Quicken 2006 Premier Home and Business on CrossOver Mac
CodeWeavers released their second beta of CrossOver Mac yesterday. I downloaded beta 2 and have been running it without noticing any changes from Beta 1. In Quicken 2006 Premier Home and Business, the same problems that existed in Beta 1 still exist. When Quicken opens, it doesn’t properly draw any screens. If you click on…