If you’re like me and keep your iTunes files on external disks, you’ll occasionally end up in a situation where the external disk is not available and iTunes ends up marking all your files with an “exclamation mark”, indicating they’re not available.
To have to do to fix this is hold CTRL+ALT when starting iTunes and it’ll re-figure everything out.
This documents how I installed Drupal on a brand new Macbook Air running Snow Leopard 10.6.5.
Note – I’m still having trouble starting MySQL from the command line. Right now I’m doing:
cd /usr/local/mysql/binnohup ./mysqld_safe &disown %1If you have advice, I’d appreciate it.
~/Sites/http://localhost/~USERNAME/drupal-6.20/In case it’s not clear what happened here:
~/Sites/~USERNAME/You’ll notice at this stage we’re just seeing a directory listing, or if you’re a little more ambitious and click on “index.php”, PHP code. If you’re actually seeing a Drupal setup page, skip the next section.
This is just following the excellent instructions from here.
sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.confLoadModule php5_modulebash (to start a subshell)cd /etcsudo cp php.ini.default php.inisudo chmod 666 php.inisudo vi /etc/php.ini;date.timezonedate.timezone=America/Torontosudo apachectl restartexitNote – if you see the error “/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument“, follow the instructions here:
install.php (on the URL figured out way above)default.settings.php
cd ~/Sites/drupal-6.20/sites/defaultcp default.settings.php settings.phpchmod a+w settings.phpsites/defaults/files
cd ~/Sites/drupal-6.20/sites/defaultmkdir fileschmod 777 filesAt this point you should be brought to a “Database Configuration Page” and we have to leave the browser and go back to the command line.
These instructions create a MySQL database called “drupal_db” with access by “drupal_user” using the password “drupal_password“.
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root
create database drupal_db;grant all privileges ON drupal_db.* TO "drupal_user"@"localhost" identified by "drupal_password";grant all privileges ON drupal_db.* TO "drupal_user"@"127.0.0.1" identified by "drupal_password";flush privileges;exit;Back in the browser you should be on the Drupal Database Configuration page. Enter drupal_db, drupal_user and drupal_password (the values you created in the previous step)
Submit the form. If you get the following error message:
Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: No such file or directory.
Make sure you typed everything correctly. If necessary, click on Advanced Options and change the hostname from localhost to 127.0.0.1.
localhost (why not)your@email.comadmin (why not)your@email.comyour-favorite-passwordAfter you hit submit, you should be finished installing Drupal, except for the next little cleanup step.
Drupal doesn’t like you leaving settings.php alterable by the web server around:
cd ~/Sites/drupal-6.20/sites/defaultchmod go-w settings.phpThe directory files must be left writable.
Let’s assume you already have an Android project on your Mac.
In your new XCode project:
In your new XCode project:
antinstallClicking ⌘B should now compile your project.
Note: if you figure out how to have a Build vs. Build & Install (e.g. ⌘ENTER) please let me know!.
ant to ./xantxant in the project’s home directory, using the code belowchmod a+x xant#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import re
import subprocess
av = list(sys.argv)
av[0] = "ant"
p = subprocess.Popen(av, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
javac_rex = re.compile(" +[[]javac[]] +")
line_rex = re.compile("[.]java:[\d]+:")
pending = ""
while True:
d = p.stdout.read(128)
if not d:
break
d = pending + d
nx = d.rfind('\n')
if nx == -1:
pending = d
continue
else:
d, pending = d[:nx + 1], d[nx + 1:]
d = javac_rex.sub("", d)
d = line_rex.sub(r"\g error: ", d)
sys.stdout.write(d)
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stdout.write(pending)
p.wait()
sys.exit(p.returncode)
Note: this code has been updated from the original post. It now reads little chunks and outputs them immediately rather than post-processing the ant output.
If you want to the use the Python Imaging Library on Mac OS/X Snow Leopard, these instructions appear to be the best way to to get libjpeg installed:
1. Download the source from http://libjpeg.sourceforge.net/
2. Extract, configure, make:
tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
3. You may need to create the following directories:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/include
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
4. Now you can install it as usual.
sudo make install
I used to use Fink on Leopard, but it didn’t seem to work to well this time. If you’ve previously made an attempt at installing PIL, make sure to rm -rf build.
I’m a command line guy – I spend 90% of my non-blog reading day in Terminal, working on Python apps on my Mac or SSHed into work and working on Java and Javascript applications. I do realize the benefit of “real” applications, for image editing, for advanced text processing and so forth. On the Mac you can send files to the default application easily:
open "Madeline Doll House.jpg"
(Don’t ask). If the Mac doesn’t know how to deal with the file type, or you want to specify a particular app, that’s cool too:
open -a smultron index.jd
Note that it doesn’t matter that I’m SSHed into a work computer – we got around that issue last week using MacFUSE.
Earlier this week I bought a LaCie 500Gb USB drive so I could bring VMWare images between work and home. When I went to copy the image, the copy failed with no meaningful error message (Error 0, I believe). Trying the copy on the command line was a little more informative: as it turns out, the LaCie drive ships with a FAT-32 file system which can only handle files up to 4Gb in size. As the image I was trying to copy had a 8Gb file in it, this was a no go.
My initial thought was to use the UNIX commands tar and split to break the files into individual smaller chunks, but this is hardly a satisfactory answer. If I formatted the drive to the Mac filesystem, the Windows machines would not be able to read it at all. If I formatted the drive the “new” NTFS filesystem, Windows can read and write just fine but the Macintosh wouldn’t be able to write to it.
Fortunately, there’s an excellent install for the Mac called MacFUSE that allows access to all sorts of filesystem types not natively supported by the Macintosh, include NTFS. Here’s how I set up MacFUSE.
Installation by itself does nothing except set you up for the next stage: installing drivers for particular file systems.
You have to search through the documentation for a bit to figure out where to get NTFS to with Windows filesystems. It actually turns out to be rather easy:
You can now write to NTFS drives. It’s a little slow – it’s taking me about 2 hours to copy 8Gb to the La Cie drive, but that’s better than not being able to do it at all. You wouldn’t want to work live off the drive however, and it may be worth investigating commercial NTFS compatibility applications if you need to do this.
To reformat your La Cie drive plotline, use Applications > Disk Utility to erase and install an empty NTFS file system.
SSHFS lets you see remote filesystems through SSH.
~/bin/Volumes. For example, on the command line run mkdir -p ~/.Volumes/Remote.You’ll see the drive appearing on your desktop. I’ve actually created a shell alias to do the mounting for me called “mount-xxx”. If you don’t know how to do this, it’s probably too much to go into right now.
The nice thing about SSHFS is that I could see being able to run an entire Mac desktop development shop with all the backend computing running Linux, all being accessed nicely through SSHFS.
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