This is the tale of a man who was faced with colossal data loss. As his family photos seem to fade in to the ether and with nothing to lose, he draw a line in the digital sand. He became Tony, The Digital Warlock.
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Recently I decided to try shuffling around my hardware and try a hackintosh setup on my recently acquired i7 box. I last dabbled in this stuff many years back with a P4 box. Suffice to say, my beloved 2008 era Mac Pro is starting to show some age and while I could upgrade it, Apple’s dragged ass in updating the Mac Pro line. So, here are my notes. Read on to see what steps should work for you, should you use similar hardware. I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later.
Yes, I am indeed still alive. I had my site hosted on Amazon Web Services EC2 for a while. Some sort of database problem kept grinding that server to a halt. I’ve since migrated my site elsewhere (not because of that) and sort of patched the issues in the process. I’ve been seriously considering blowing away this website and making something completely new.. And probably not WordPress-based.. (WordPress is awesome, I just am ready for something else). In the mean time, I’ve received the odd request to resurrect my site from STP users. So, for now anyway, Dawning.ca is back! In case you’re wondering WTF I’ve done lately, there’s been many projects as late, but many are proprietary paid things that I shouldn’t really blog about. :\
Since adopting OSX as my typical workstation environment, I’ve often been annoyed by a lack of understanding about how to cleanly call it from the commandline, but not via a terminal. On Linux I’d typically just make a little bash script and fork it out from /etc/rc.local. That’s not really an option on OSX. A lot of current Synergy users don’t really have to solve this issue any more, because Synergy 1.4 has a pretty GUI they can use. However, some people, like myself, are using Synergy with the 1.3 based version included with Ubuntu. Not to mention, I’m fond of running multiple instances of synergy at once, which the GUI doesn’t support. Suffice to say, I now have the solution. I found a nice solution posted here, though that one wasn’t specific to Synergy, I used that person’s method. Granted, not to call a Python script, but BASH instead. Annnnnyway.. Go here for my instructions! Hint: The solution involes plists, launchctl and bash scripts. |
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