Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:37 GMT
After my recent upgrade of machines on my home-network, I discovered that the Mac mini showed Remote Disc in the Finder, suggesting it uses the same EFI boot as the Macbook Air.
Sure enough, booting it with ⌥ pressed, shows the boot-menu as mentioned in the Apple documents describing booting the Macbook Air off of the network, i.e. showing an Airport network pop-up list, but it failed to show my NetBoot server.
Using Remote Install Mac OS X.app did work, so I reverse engineered the communication involved.
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Posted in tech | Tags macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00:45 GMT
Booting a MacOSX machine from the network provides for an easy way to install and re-install the operating system. On MacOSX server, this feature can be enabled from a GUI, but the same effect can be achieved using open-source tools. One of the essential elements is a properly configured DHCP server.
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Posted in tech | Tags macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:56:00 GMT
Some time ago I noticed that the console.log on my PowerMac desktop never seemed to got rotated, resulting in an overly large file. Reading up on the topic I discovered that rotation of the console.log is supposedly performed by loginwindow.app and not by the regular cron based rotation scripts, but this somehow seemed to fail.
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Posted in tech | Tags macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:00 GMT
It turns out rolling your own Firefox (and/or Thunderbird) really isn't that complicated, once you have the prerequisites in place. The biggest challenge is in creating your mozconfig, especially if you want an optimized universal build that can be run on both G5 and Mactel machines. Since I am always in for the extra challenge I also used distributed compiling, using distcc.
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Posted in tech | Tags firefox, macosx, thunderbird
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Wed, 02 May 2007 22:00:00 GMT
If you are geek enough to actually format you MacOSX hard-disk using a case-sensitive file-system, then you will not be able to use the Facebook plugin. This is easily fixed:
open a terminal and execute the following commands:
$ cd /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/PlugIns
$ ln -sfn ../Plugins/Facebook.iPhotoExporter .
The plugin should now show up as a tab in Export...
Posted in tech | Tags facebook, iphoto, macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:55:41 GMT
Traditionally Unix uses a passwd file to lookup user information. More recent versions use a separate shadow file for password storage. Although the passwords are not stored in cleartext, both methods do perform a security risk. On a reasonably large network this also provides a maintenance burden since all accounts need to be defined and maintained on each system.
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Posted in tech | Tags debian, dns, kerberos, macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:17:14 GMT
I have quite a mixture of machines in my home network. It consists of Windows 2000 workstations, a MacOSX workstation, a PlayStation 2, bluetooth enabled Palm m505 and Siemens mobile, and a Debian GNU/Linux server. This provides for an excellent testbed for experimenting with interoperability issues between all of these and is a perfect playground to experiment with the different network technologies in use in the business environment today.
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Posted in tech | Tags debian, macosx, network
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:27:20 GMT
Not just one, but two great product announcements from Apple on this years MacWorld. The amazingly small, and cheap, Mac mini and the also highly affordable and tiny iPod shuffle. The iPod shuffle is available now and reportedly caused a stampede at the Apple store nearest the convention centre where MacWorld is held.
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Posted in tech | Tags ipod, macosx
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:53:00 GMT
After some successful experiments with blojsom on my (MacOSX) desktop, I spent quite some time getting stuff working on my Linux server. I had some peculiar problems with switching themes, i.e. FileNotFoundException after a seemingly successful switchover.
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Posted in tech | Tags blojsom, debian, java, macosx
