Category: OS X
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IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Vs. Apple MacBook Revisited
I’ve been using the Apple MacBook on and off for a little over a month now.Disclosure: The MacBook isn’t my only computer. At the office, I have a Dell now running Ubuntu 6.06 and at home, I removed the failed IBM Deskstar drive out of my Dell, installed Ubuntu from scratch. At some point, I’ll…
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Darwine on OS X
I’ve been playing with the preinstalled Quicken 2006 for Mac after exporting most of my data from Quicken 2006 Premier Home and Business 2006 for Windows. Quicken for Mac is annoying and cumbersome at best. After using it for two days, I am amazed at why Intuit even bothers with this version. It is extremely…
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Gaming on Apple MacBook
This is agreat article on MacWorld about gaming on the Apple MacBook. Some older games like Jedi Academy work pretty well, even with Rosetta. The basic premise is (for casual gamers), max out your RAM and avoid cutting edge 3D graphics intensive games on the MacBook. If you’re a hardcore gamer, don’t rely on the…
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Clean OS X on MacBook
I spent about 3 hours late last night reinstalling OS X on my MacBook, then bringing over my files and data from my Mac Mini, and finally installing the relevant pieces of software. I have also compiled Postgres for OS X. I tried compiling it without readline first and everything went well. I have not…
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MacBook – Perl blunders lead to OS X Reinstall
Well, I got a little daring last night and decided to compile Postgresql and Apache with mod_ssl and mod_perl on the MacBook so that I can get back to working on The Manusya Project. I got as far as compiling and installing Postgres. Once I was done with Postgres, I decided to get the various…