All posts tagged with 'Mac OS X'

3 days with Linux

08-Feb-08

Since Tuesday i installed Debian Linux 4 times on my new Dell Vostro 200. The choice of hardware was kinda stupid. I thought, well this thing is not a special thingy but plain standard. Well, seems, it isn’t. The first setback was, that the Debian installer booted from CD-Rom but didn’t recognize it afterwards. Yippie… […]

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From Parallels Desktop to VirtualBox

07-Jan-08

For backup and testing purpose i keep a virtualized version of my webserver running under Parallels Desktop for Mac on my mac. Recently Dell had some very convenient offers on their PowerEdge machines and i could barely resist to buy one, but finally, i managed to: cut the crap, i don’t want to have even […]

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Upgrading Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.5

27-Oct-07

Some more or less unordered thoughts and impressions of the latest iteration of Apples Mac OS X, nicknamed Leopard: Despite all the naysayers who warn you “don’t upgrade, make a clean install”, i’ve updated two Intel Macs to today without much hassle. In both cases, the famous “Welcome Movie Thingy” crashed 🙁 Hurray, good first […]

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