Published at 31 October 2007
in mac.
Not specifically linked to the Leopard upgrade, but I got a call today from a client and needed to connect via Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to a co-located XServe to check something out. I fired up ARD as usual but kept getting the message “Authenitcation Failed to (computer name)”. No passwords had changed the only difference is the recent update to ARD 3.2. I upgraded the client to 3.2.1 thinking that could be it - but no joy. Anyway to cut a long story short… after lots of googling and banging my head against a brick wall, I found out you can configure ARD using SSH and kickstart. And this little lot in the Terminal seemed to do the trick.
Due to the long lines, I’ve split a couple of cd commands. Each new command starts with $
$ ssh username@host.com
$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/
$ cd ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/
$ sudo ./Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users username -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
Bingo! The funny thing is that most of the noise about Leopard was UI related, however, I seem to have spent more time in Terminal since upgrading than I have in a long time 
Published at 30 October 2007
in mac.
I know many others have blogged about this, but more for my records than anything I thought I’d jot down the tips to get my development environment working in Leopard. I’m sure in time new releases will make all this redundant but for now…
ColdFusion 8
I got this to work after trying all sorts of things. I’m pretty sure that I was close getting the Standalone version to working, but now I have it running I think I’ll leave it alone for the time being. Big thanks to Geoff Bowers, Mark Drew, Ray Camden, and a whole host of others for providing tips on this.
PHP
It’s rare that I develop anything in PHP these days but I still use phpMyAdmin a lot as my hosts use it and it seems to do everything I need. To enable PHP 5.24 in Leopard simply remove the comment from the start of this line in “/etc/apache2/httpd.conf”:
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
MySQL
This ran fine, but the Preference Panel didn’t work and I couldn’t connect via phpMyAdmin, so in a Terminal just type:
sudo mkdir /var/mysql/
sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo apachectl restart
I spent quite a while getting all this to work so I haven’t had much time to enjoy Leopard yet, but it seems petty slick and I’ve already got into the habit of using Spaces.
Published at 18 October 2007
in mac.
I’ve bitten the bullet and pre-ordered my copy of Leopard today. There’s loads of great new features I hope will streamline my workflow even more, such as Stacks and Spaces and I know that I’d be installing it at some point so might as well jump aboard early.
Published at 8 October 2007
in cfml.
When I updated some sites to CF8 I noticed that the font and table sizes went a little crazy. I tried a few things but in the end had to fix each page so it looked OK. Having applied CF8 Hot Fix 1 it seems that the sizes have changed again - lets hope that’s the last of it!
