Tag Archives: mac os x

Unmounting Bootcamp to use as a drive for Virtual Box

Part of the instructions for setting up Virtual Box to boot from your Bootcamp drive on Mac OS X walk you through setting up a permanent approach to unmounting your Bootcamp drive. I didn’t follow those instructions, instead created a … Continue reading

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Booting your Windows Bootcamp partition in VirtualBox

I have XP in my Bootcamp partition which I occasionally boot to run apps that I don’t have on Mac OS X, usually it’s for a Windows game. It annoys me to switch between Mac OS X and booting Windows … Continue reading

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Setting up a Git server on Ubuntu, accessing from Mac OS X

This wiki post walks you through the key steps configuring a Git server on Ubuntu. Edit 4/3/12: there’s a lot of other articles on how to setup gitosis on linux – here’s some I followed, but they all have slight … Continue reading

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Forwarding an X Windows app to Mac OS X

ssh to your unix server, passing the -X option: ssh -X -l user@server When you start an X Windows app from the ssh session, it’s output will be forwarded back to your Mac. More details here.

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Mac OS X Lion video review

cnet.com have a great video review of Mac OS X Lion – looks very impressive – there’s some great looking UI enhancements and slick gesture based improvements.

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WinFS – where are you?

I remember back before ‘Longhorn’ was released (which became Windows Vista) that one of the selling points was a replacement file system that at the time sounded like it was going to be a revolutionary replacement for the long established … Continue reading

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