Entries tagged with 'leopard'

The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time.
It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the “Start MySQL Server” / “Stop MySQL Server” button doesn’t do anything.
Well, today I finally got [...]

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]

I didn’t know this until I read this post on Lifehacker, but check out the icon OS X Leopard shows for PCs running Windows that you may be browsing from your Mac:

You’ve upgraded to OS X Leopard, played with Time Machine, tweaked things to your heart’s content and now you want to play with something else cool you’ve heard has made it’s way into OS X - ZFS.
Unfortunately, Apple have only bundled read-only support for ZFS to date, but we’ll be changing that.

WARNING: ZFS read-write support [...]

I’ve just upgraded to OS X Leopard, but I made a school boy error - I forgot to ensure all my applications were Leopard compatible BEFORE I did this.
The upgrade went smoothly, however I couldn’t login as myself into the graphical interface. I could login remotely over SSH, but any attempts to login via [...]

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:

System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]