A Fix for Time Machine on OSX 10.5.3 over AFP for .mac Users

So the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update broke Time Machine for me.

Configuring JungleDisk on Linux - Revisited

We’ve updated our earlier howto JungleDisk for Linux Server Backups without X11 for the latest version of JungleDisk, 1.50.

PHP Configuration for Leopard

Both Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 come with every installation of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. MySQL does not. There are a couple of tricks for installing and/or turning them on –and thereby attaining Development Happiness.

Installing MySQL on Leopard

MySQL now provides compiled binaries for Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. But the startup applet doesn’t work properly yet on Leopard.

Building Git on Leopard

So you want to use Git for distributed version control For Mac OS X 10.5 there are a couple of options for installing Git.

Building Git on Centos 5

So you want to use Git the latest hotness in distributed version control. It builds easily using the instructions in the INSTALL file.

Time Machine Backups over WiFi

Leopard does not (yet?) backup to a disk attached to an Airport base station, to lots of people’s concern. But OS X version 10.5.1 will backup over the network – to another Mac. It works just fine over wired or wifi networks, so it works for MacBooks.

Economics of Online Backup

Photographer James Duncan Davidson takes a look at The Economics of Online Backup – and finds that time and cost work against online storage for his terabyte of data.

JungleDisk for Linux Server Backups without X11

JungleDisk is another great entrant in the online backup business. Unlike Mozy, our favorite for Macs and PCs, JungleDisk also runs on Linux. And, since version 1.30a, it ships a command-line version.