The installation of a NTFS driver on Mac OS X for read and write access is actually covered on many websites, so I just write this entry to summarize the installation process and to write about my experience with the driver.
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I got a new shiny Nokia 3110c phone, nice and simple. But iSync has no plugin to sync the address book and the calendar on my iMac with the phone’s memory. But searching the web I found James Lloyd’s website, where plugins are provided for the Nokia Series 40 phones (3110c is one of them).
If you have your own Ubuntu server running you may encounter the maximal file size upload limit in php scripts which is set to 2Mb as default. In order to change that we first have a look what the size actually is. In /var/www (standard www directory) create a file called info.php with the following content:
<?php // Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL phpinfo(); ?>
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There is a new beta version of VirtualBox for Mac OS X available and installing Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon worked like a charm (in opposition to Parallels). The only problem I encountered was, that it was not possible to mount a directory from the Mac OS X host in the guest system with either the internal mechanism (Folder sharing) and just directly via samba. In the latter case I could mount the host directory and could view it once, but than the mount was always busy and I had no access anymore. But I found another solution: sshfs. Here is a short introduction how to do that:
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In order to create a universal binary of netcdf first read this post. Than issue this configure command:
./configure CFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -arch i386" CXXFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -arch i386" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch ppc -arch i386" --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-f77cÂ
This will correctly build a universal binary of the netcdf library (C and C++). I had to use “–disable-f77” since I only had f2c installed which is not able to compile the netcdf fortran API. “make test” was successfully run.
The hint below is actually a hack. The correct solution would be to add “-mmacosx-version-min=10.4” to the compiler and linker command as mentioned in this post or follow the comment below this post.
If you compile a programm/library on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) against the 10.4u SDK as suggested in this technote to create a universal binary you may encounter this error message:
ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.5.o
In that case you need to create a symbolic link
sudo ln -s /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.o /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.10.5.o
This might solve the linking problem than. This hint was found here and here.
I recently got a new shiny iMac at work with Mac OS X 10.5 on it. Very nice. I like it. If you are used to the Windows/Linux keyboard, you run into troubles though, since some keys are not there where they should be. In order to find out where the are use the virtual keyboard. This utility is somehow hidden, but here are the instructions how to enable it: Continue reading Where is the damn \ and { in Mac OS X?