Posts by dcrocks

I now know that my refurbished system is coming frpm Pennsylvania.

Where do mac mini's (new and refurbished) ship from?

Snow Leopard restored GD support in PHP. Any reason Apple couldn't add it back into Leopard as well? I have a G5 server and I would rather use Apple's PHP than build another copy of PHP just to get GD back. I've never seen any reason as...

Discussions elsewhere point out the need for both a 64 bit cpu and 64 bit EFI to enable a 64 bit kernel to default load. A kernel that has dropped 32 bit support will also need 64 bit drivers for all the devices in the box, whether from...

I am looking at buying a new IMac and expect to keep the system at least 5 years. It will be a family system and, hopefully, more resilient to technical change than a system bought for more demanding purposes. I would expect at least 2...

I recently ran into a problem with some PHP code running on my server. When PHP pushed a FORM page, $server["REMOTE_ADDR"] always returned the IPv6 version of localhost(::0) but when a java applet pushed a FORM document it...

I just started to look at setting up some name based virtual hosts on my os x server w/apache2 and have some questions. Most of the notes I can find through Google refer to manual editing of files rather than using server admin. The...

I kept looking for differences between the 'admin' account and my personal one. Turns out I had turned off all access to 'everyone' on my base user directory (/Users/me). Changed to 'read only', and personal web sharing works now.

I installed a clean copy of leopard on a new machine. Personal web sharing works on the 'admin' account, but not on any others. I get the '403' error on my personal account. The .conf file already exists in the proper place with the...

I am looking at replacing the boot drive in my Powermac dual 2ghz desktop. I am looking at the Samsung Spinpoint T 320gb ( HD321KJ ). It is inexpensive, quiet, cool, and low power (certainly comapared to the current seagate 7200.7). But...