Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:47:00 GMT
Today I jumped on the 3.1 update for Safari via Software Update on my brand new MacBook Pro. Sadly, the installation hung with the message under the progress bar, "Configuring Installation". I restarted, tried it again, and had the same result. To fix my problem:
- Deleted Safari.app from the /Applications folder
- Downloaded/Installed Safari 3.1 directly from Apple.com, here.
That's it, Safari Version 3.1 (5525.13) worked after a reboot.
Posted in OS X | Tags apple, leopard, mac, safari | 5 comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:50:00 GMT
Here are the commands I used to compile the required libraries and programs for RMagick to work on Mac OS X 10.5. It is largely the same as this article with slight adjustments. After completing the process I dumped my history.
Before you can execute these commands, you MUST HAVE
Begin by creating a folder to hold the src.
cd ~
mkdir src
cd src
wget
I like wget, which I use in the commands below. To start compile that or replace the wget command with curl -O.
curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf wget-latest.tar.gz
cd wget-1.11/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
FreeType
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
PNG Library
wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.25
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
JPEG Library
wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b/
ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
TIFF Library
wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
GhostScript Fonts
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/ghostscript
sudo mv fonts/ /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/
ImageMagick
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar zxvf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.3.9/
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8 --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
make
sudo make install
cd ..
RMagick
sudo gem install rmagick
MiniMagick
sudo gem install mini_magick
Clean Up
cd ~
rm -Rfv ./src
Posted in OS X | Tags compile, imagemagick, rmagick | 9 comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:29:00 GMT
Today's Apple World Wide Developer keynote introduced 10 (sorta) new features for the next version of Mac OS X, Safari for Windows, and an iPhones "SDK". Ok, it is not a full blown SDK, but basically web 2.0 apps that run in Safari on the iPhone. So I am officially an iPhone Developer. If you would like an application to be built in time for the iPhone launch send me an email at benr - at - x-cr.com and we'll get cranking. I know I will have at least one app ready for launch regardless. More details as they become available.
Posted in Announcement, OS X | Tags development, iphone | 2 comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:06:00 GMT
Tonight my Xserve went down at the co-lo. Upon arrival and reboot, I found that 10.4.9 has been released. Software Update for your copy of that update and iPhoto 6.0.6.
Official update here.
Posted in Announcement, OS X | no comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:47:23 GMT
I have read a lot about ZFS, but this article by far does the best job of summing up the great features of the new file system.
Posted in Announcement, OS X | no comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:19:00 GMT
Yesterday one of the
Apple iPhone stories caused a CSS UI glitch in digg when the digg count went over 9999.
To fix this go to the source of the problem, Apple, for the solution. Recently I backed up my entire GMail account to Mail.app, and found that I had:
Posted in OS X | Tags apple, digg | no comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Sat, 06 May 2006 11:36:00 GMT
For a while now I have been doing a lot of regular tasks manually on my OS X box. On my linux boxes I have been using good old Cron for these tasks. Today I started using crontab, since it is installed by default on Mac OS X. There are several tutorials and sites that have information on crontab, but they were not as direct as I would have liked so I put together this tutorial, Using Crontab with Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux. Enjoy!
Posted in Tutorials, Linux, OS X | 2 comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:09:00 GMT
Posted in OS X | 2 comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:49:00 GMT
Hot damn. Intel iMacs, Intel PowerBooks... errr.. MacBooks... And OS X 10.4.4. Top it off with a killer commercial, and it's a MacWorld keynote.
Posted in OS X | no comments
Posted by Ben Reubenstein
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:15:00 GMT
I have had some .cue/.wav files that I have been trying to burn for a long time. The long .wav file has every track of the disc so putting it directly into iTunes would be super l@m3.
I downloaded CDRDAO
here. After compiling and installing, I ran this command to burn the disc on my Mac (Tiger):
cdrdao write --device IODVDServices --driver generic-mmc my.cue
Of course, replace my.cue with your cue file and have the .wav file in the same directory.
Posted in Linux, OS X | 3 comments
