Posted by Shady
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:19:00 GMT
And I am not a happy camper. Sure the eye candy is nice, and not everything I have set up broke but….
After doing an upgrade (in hindsight, not the best idea), my system bordered on unusable:
1.Journaling had to be turned off on the main hard drive, because mds and mdworker processes were using up to 90% of my CPU at any given time.
2.ATSServer was briefly using upwards of 50% of my CPU, but a reboot seemed to fix that.
3.My external firewire drive is not being recognized or mounted.
4.Launching the Intel Optimized version of BonEcho froze and crashed on numerous occasions.
5.ventrilo is broken
Even the unix side of things is a mixed bag:
1.postgresql is working
2.sml-nj seems to work
3.my custom compiled version of ruby seems to also work
4.apache/php is broken beyond repair
5.mysql is broken
6.nmap seems to work, as does MSF
All In all, this is pretty much the WORST upgrade experience I have ever had with any OS. It seems like I have no choice but to backup (good fucking luck since my firewire external isn’t being mounted) and do a format and reinstall.
I usually only associate that with windows. The more things change…
Posted in OSX, Rants
Posted by Shady
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:15:00 GMT
I've only been using Quicksilver for a few days now, and I already can't imagine not being able to use it. Access to every remote corner of your mac with a few key strokes. Awesome.
Posted in OSX
Posted by Shady
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 GMT
Previously, we installed postgresql on our OS X computers. Now lets do a little bit of house keeping and clean up to make it more convenient for general use.
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Posted in OSX, Database | Tags Postgres
Posted by Shady
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT
Yesterday I rambled on about the benefits of RDBMS and spatial data. Today, we'll actually take the first step towards getting all that fun stuff working. Setting up Postgres is not really a difficult task, especially if you have ever built any unix software before. Let's get started.
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Posted in OSX, Database | Tags PostgreSQL
Posted by Shady
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:07:00 GMT
MySQL is nice enough for your average web application. Even larger applications can be run on it with the appropriate amount of tuning voodoo (see: wikipedia). There is even the MySQL MaxDB product (essentially SAPDB rebranded after its GPL release) available for Enterprise level MySQL, although this is not available for OS X.
Core data is also a nice solution for persistence inside a single application.
Oracle can also be run on OS X, provided you enjoy being turned upside down and shaken over a large funnel until all your money comes out. Not that this pertains specifically to Oracle on OS X, it's really more of an Oracle feature in general.
Each of these database server options are available for OS X. And they all have their various uses and proponents. So why am I here talking about Postgres? Well,
- It's Free (speech, and beer).
- It's enterprise ready (I seem to recall the .org primary name servers run on postgres)
- PostGIS
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Posted in GIS, OSX | Tags GIS
