I just spent a good hour trying to work out why virtual hosts wasn’t working for me on my local machine. Turns out I needed to:
1) Enable virtual hosts by uncommenting the line
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
in httpd.conf
2) Add the line
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
to httpd.conf. I put it under the line
Listen 80
for now.
then…
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Posted by Harry at 2:21 pm on March 16th, 2009.
Categories: Mac, OS X 10.5, PHP.
Thanks to davidje13 in this post on the entropy forum I have php with all the bells and whistles including gd, mb_ and zip working on a 10.5 macbook pro.
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Posted by Harry at 10:58 pm on March 12th, 2009.
Categories: Mac, OS X 10.5.
I needed to take all the connections from my old machine and move them and navicat 6 over to the new one.
There is no exporter built into Navicat version 6, so I was more than a little concerned that I was going to have to find all my details and plug all the connections settings back in. Luckily this wasn’t the case.
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Posted by Harry at 12:45 pm on March 11th, 2009.
Categories: apps, Mac.
I have a new Macbook Pro 15″ and an external hard drive which has a Firewire 400 port.
So I needed to connect a Firewire 400 (6 pin not square) male (drive with cable) to a Firewire 800 (9 pin square) female (macbook pro)
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Posted by Harry at 10:47 pm on March 10th, 2009.
Categories: Mac.
So you’re upgrading your computer or replacing the hard drive and you want to be sure that the information on the old drive is no longer readable. Just delete the files or format the drive right? Nope. Still readable by bad people.
The only way to ensure the drive is no longer readable is to destroy the actual disk, and the best way to do that is to….
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Posted by Harry at 2:01 pm on March 8th, 2009.
Categories: general.