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I'm back to using the PPC Macs again just for fun. Namely the G5 iMac 10.4 and recently donated G4 iBook 10.5. The designs are quaint and with the right mix of software, can still be quite a usable computer. Most applications are on the internet (and I refrain from using the word "cloud").   Optimised Firefox So the first thing to do to make this computer usable is to get the "latest" and "optimised" browser which I downloaded from http://rpm-mozilla.org.uk Media Player If Quicktime isn't able to play a media file, I like VLC and you can still get a PPC version from their download page. Select the Universal version. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html Remote Desktop Client To use other applications and get more power, we probably have to connect to our main system. We will need a remote desktop tool for that. We could use the standard VNC to another machine on the home network which is great. This feature is avail...

Just picked this up from a blog http://blog.carldr.com/ as I needed to forward GUI apps over SSH. The answer was just to replace localhost with 127.0.0.1. Start Terminal from utilities run "startx" in the terminal right click on the dock (my recent fav trick) run "xterm" from Applications menu. The next are commands to run in the xterm. xhost + ssh -R 6000:127.0.0.1:5000 myserver Now, you can run your GUI app I still have habits to do the xhost +, sometimes it's just conditioning and I'm not even sure if the commands are useful.

I can't believe that I've been using mac's terminal all this while and i didn't know that if you right click the icon on the tray of the app that is already open or select from the drop down for new window you get to select a different theme of window. My favorite is "homebrew", reminds me of my old terminals feel with the semi transparency and green font.

well, it's not quite home automation, but i've upgraded my home systems. Here's a bit about what it does now. It's a lot simpler now not to mention easier to setup. The brain ----------- The core system now lie within a mac mini snow leopard server attached to the living room PC. I got one direct from apple store. it's very cool and not to mention cheap. ideal for home use. it's a home theater pc as well as running all the other IT services, i.e. DNS, DHCP, VPN and some other misc Apple stuff, like website, wiki, podcast and mail. It monitors all the other network equipment, network attached storage (NAS), all in one printer, cameras and wireless access points. Essentially, I VPN to the box and through my secure VPN access all the other home systems without the messiness of having to NAT individual ports. It also adds another layer of security for remote access. DHCP and DNS also helps each connected device find each other better that it would if I relie...

Just some notes from the install into a fresh default install of centos with sugarcrm 6.2. I'm sure I missed out quite a lot of bits, but i'll add more over time. These are the additional packages to install for php and mysql yum install mysql yum install mysql-server add repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo [c5-testing] name=CentOS-5 Testing baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing yum upgrade php yum install php-mysql yum install php-mbstring the rest of the install should be as the other documentation

I just went to a Salesforce Cloud 2 event yesterday and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. The sharing session was to introduce a collaboration platform, an application developer platform and CRM tool. What's new you might ask? I'm not sure, but I guess it's a just a software company expanding. No doubt, the technology and tools were pretty good, however so are most things out there now. Marc Benioff just went on a Microsoft bashing session using Apple computers, etc. Through my mind I was wondering if this is out of the frying pan and into the fire. What I would have liked to hear is how well salesforce will integrate with everything else, how open it is, but that never came out. So it's just another Oracle and Microsoft?

Tools to download sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx File Shredder - http://www.fileshredder.org/ Eraser - http://eraser.heidi.ie/ CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Truecrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/ Command line