June 02, 2005
Three weeks later... I got my mac back
The hard disk was replaced by Apple and I am back configuring my system. I think buying a second hard disk for cloning my configuration is my best bet.
Installed software
FireFox 1.0.4 (Linky, GreaseMonkey, GoogleBar Lite, View formatted source)
Changed in Safari preferences default Firefox
Fink & Fink Commander
X11
Emacs osx-05-29-04
Gmail Status
Xcode Tools 1.5
ChronoSync Backup Software
Vuscan Scanning front end
OnSync Telephone & Apple address book sync
Aqua Studio - Oracle GUI client
Fugu - scp GUI client
RealPlayer
Microsoft MediaPlayer
MacTheRipper
DVD2OneX
Transmit FTP Client
Ecto Movable Type Client
Microsoft Office 2004
Oracle 10g database and the following documents for installation. 1, 2, and 3
Configuration Changes
sudo passwd root
Color ls created by aliasing 'ls -G' for ls
Generated public key with ssh-keygen -t rsa and copied id_rsa.pub in .ssh of target machine
Modified /etc/ssh_config and changed X11Forwarding to yes
On X11 terminal changed preferences and unchecked Enable key equivalent under X11
Changed the startup image:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemStarter/QuartzDisplay.bundle/Resources/Boot- Panel.pdf (Downloaded www.resexcellence.com/user_X_boot.shtml)
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
Alias
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias beep='echo -en "\007"'
alias l='ls -alFG'
alias la='ls -laG'
alias ll='ls -lG'
alias ls='/bin/ls -G'
alias o='less'
alias which='type -p'
Oracle related stuff
Installed readline through Fink see doc
Installed in /usr/local/bin/gqplus (make CFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib -bind_at_load")
Added the following to my listner.ora file
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/10gEAR2)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
)
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = ORA10)
(ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/10gEAR2)
(SID_NAME = ORA10)
)
)
Posted by Hazi at 02:42 PM | Comments (0)
May 09, 2005
Reinstalling Mac OS for the second time in a year
For the second time in a year I am reinstalling Mac OS X. The first time it seems it came from Norton Anti virus. This time around I couldn't figure out the culprit. The symptoms began when Entourage wouldn't quit. When I rebooted things slowed to a crawl (flying saucer). Did a number of disk repairs. Some of the worked, others didn't. The funny thing is when I deleted the Entourage database, disk repairs worked. finally it went down today and I couldn't install OS X. My only way out was to erase the disk and start anew:
It installed but on the upgrade to 10.3.9 I got back the saucer. The machine is going back to Apple. ( Will I be shot if I say they have a reliability issue)
Posted by Hazi at 04:47 PM | Comments (0)