hubs ([info]hubs) wrote,
@ 2006-03-11 20:47:00
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Current mood:accomplished
Current music:School Boy Heart-Jimmy Buffett-Banana Wind

Lot going on...
I know, long time , no post.. And now there will mostly likly be a flurry of them..

With a little help from my friends, I have moved most everything over to my Mac G4. I have taken one of my many intel boxes and moved it downstairs to the basement. I still have one Dell box up here to handle print server duty and stuff I need to do in windows. I hope to get a copy of virtual PC soon and try and find a wireless printserver one of these days.

Lynn will most likly be telling horror story's of fence repairs again soon, I rebuilt the lower section of the back fence that fell down a week after I had fixed the section next to it. Tommarow I will be cutting the boards and nailing it all in place, My sweetie let me get a circular saw and cordless drill so I have been making lots of sawdust and noise.

One question I have for those of you that use macs, what are your essential apps that you swear by, I have found most of the ones I use most, firefox, eudora, thunderbird, etc... But I am always on the lookout for new favorites.

Chuck




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[info]masonstone
2006-03-12 03:02 am UTC (link)
Adium for instant messaging. Mudwalker for telnet chats. Unison for newsgrouops.

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[info]zothar
2006-03-14 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Fink (fink.sf.net) for some of the unix/linux things Mac OS X is missing out of the box. It uses apt/dpkg/dselect for the binary distribution, but unfortunately, it does not use Debian policy or those same tools for the entire package management scheme.

I assume you're running the client version of the OS, so I'll mention that Apache, PHP, MySQL, Python and SSH are all either included or fairly easy to install. (I forget, but IIRC, MySQL is the only one from that list that isn't pre-installed on the client, though I think PHP is disabled by default. Working with the server version for most things at work has muddied my memory on this.) BTW, if you somehow do have the server version of the OS, be prepared to curse some or all of the GUI configuration management tools for the Open Source software to the point of just editing the ASCII configuration files directly like most/many do on unix anyway.

I've been wrangling Mac OS X enough that I may be able to throw some good pointers should you take me up my offer to try to answer your questions. This is my such offer.

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