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osx backup - the easy way

Monday, October 16th, 2006

After a few weeks of research I’ve finally put together a backup routine for my powerbook that works. For the first time for a long time I’m actually taking backups.
I use SuperDuper to clone my entire hard disk to a removable USB drive whenever I remember to plug it in. Here’s the […]

removing duplicates in the OSX “Open With” menu

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

For a while now I’ve noticed duplications in the context menu “Open With”. Not a major issue since all the duplicates work, just annoying in that it obviously makes the application list longer than it need be.
So finally today got around to looking for a solution. And the solution I found was at […]

Gimpshop

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

After struggling on without Photoshop for a while now (ever since jumping ship to Mac OS) I’ve missed it. And now with the move to Intel I’d decided to invest once Adobe provided a version that worked in both old and new Mac systems. However their latest announcement that they wouldn’t be Intel-compatible […]

OSX upgrade 10.4.4 breaks mySQL

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Finally got around to some work on projectSpace, only to find my MySQL installation is suddenly broken. When trying to connect locally I got the error:

#2002 - Can’t connect to local MySQL server
through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock

After a bit of googling it turns out this is a feature (?) following changes to how OSX organises its […]