Mac OS X Archives - Lost Entropy

Installing OS X 10.11 El Capitan inside Parallels Desktop

June 10, 2015January 8, 2018Aaron B. Russell32 Comments

This is actually surprisingly straightforward, once you know the hoops to jump through. Essentially there are 4 main things we need to do: Download El Capitan from the App Store Prepare an install image Create a virtual machine Install El Capitan So let’s take a look at those, one by one… Step 1: Download El Capitan […]

OS X Mavericks: restoring my development enviromment

October 23, 2013October 24, 2013Aaron B. Russell1 Comment

I upgraded to OS X Mavericks last night. It’s great, my Mac is faster, and I’ve not touched a single byte of swap yet, even with a ton of stuff open. But like any OS upgrade, there are some things that are causing my dev environment to work strangely. Here’s how I’m fixing them. Apache […]

Removing stuck Finder sidebar items in OS X Lion and Snow Leopard

July 21, 2011August 20, 2011Aaron B. Russell119 Comments

Having trouble removing some pesky icons that have gotten stuck in the Finder’s sidebar? If you’re on Lion or Snow Leopard, the solution is easy: Click on the folder and drag it away from the sidebar Before you let go of the mouse button, hold down the Command (⌘) key Now that you’re holding down […]

Safari skews web stats

February 22, 2011Aaron B. Russell1 Comment

Here’s an interesting thing to consider next time you’re looking through your web stats: the popularity of Safari 4 and later (the desktop version, not the iOS one) probably looks way higher than it actually is. Safari’s “Top Sites” feature checks sites to see if any content has changed since you were last there (and […]

Make a perfect Ubuntu AFP file server with Time Machine support

May 11, 2010Aaron B. Russell4 Comments

Just found an awesome guide from Mattias Kretschmann on how to create a perfect AFP file server for Mac clients that supports Time Machine backups over the network out of the box. It worked for me with a Mac OS X 10.6.3 client and an Ubuntu 10.04 server, with just one small change to the […]

Compiling FreeImage in 64-bit on Snow Leopard

October 3, 2009Aaron B. Russell13 Comments

I recently tried to use the image_science gem for Ruby, but it didn’t work after installation because it was looking for FreeImage.h. Thinking it’d be an easy fix, I headed over to http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ to go grab a copy of a binary file to install, but there wasn’t one. Undeterred, I went to grab the source […]

Fixing CPAN on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)

September 9, 2009September 9, 2009Aaron B. Russell2 Comments

I ran into some problems with Perl’s CPAN installer on Snow Leopard, notably, it didn’t work once Bundle::CPAN was installed. Every time I tried to install a package I’d end up with an error like this: Catching error: ‘Can\’t call method “value” on an undefined value at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64. ‘ at /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 281 […]

Lock down SFTP without restricting SSH on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

January 11, 2009Aaron B. Russell23 Comments

If you’re running a Linux, Mac OS X or Unix server of any description, SSH is an invaluable tool when it comes to taking control of the machine while you’re not infront of it. In the world of web hosting, it’s also brings with it SFTP; a fantastic alternative to the very insecure FTP. Except […]