Markjuh

I just accidentally copied some files to the wrong location and in turn destroyed the already existing files… As a result of this, I lost my entry of what I did yesterday (which was on my notebook) and I lost all of my bookmarks on my desktop. The entry of yesterday’s work is unfortunate, but not unrepairable. But my bookmarks… Damn! Lost hundreds of handy bookmarks. Especially losing locations of HTML/CSS-related stuff and homepages of people bugs me.

Anyway, let me first recover - briefly – what I did yesterday. I installed a virtual desktop program to make my working experience even more fun. Then I was confronted with all kinds of package-stuff I was taking for granted on my Debian systems.

For example, installing a new version of MySQL on my machine. Installing the new version is not much of a problem, but purging the old package… There is just no predefined way of doing that, so the simplest solution is just to keep it hanging around and let it clog up your system.

Furthermore I had an issue with Ruby-FCGI. It seems the default Ruby-installation doesn’t come with that on MacOS X. No wonder I couldn’t get Rails to work. So I had to go and fetch the source, apply patches, build and install it myself. Quite annoying when you are used to automatically having dependencies coming along with your installation. Even installing the gems-version of Rails didn’t automatically download the gem of this library.

Of course there was no FCGI-version of PHP - which is needed for most webservers that don’t include their own PHP-module – installed on MacOS X, so I had to build that myself too. No package for phpmyadmin either, so I found out that the Debian package actually fills in quite a sane default for the config file (which I now had to do by hand).

There are some things that just work though. X11-support for MacOS X is just marvellous and installing and using The GIMP is quite easy that way. And once you get the hang of it, the default terminal that comes with MacOS X is quite usable too - after configuring default window size and keybindings – .

It didn’t feel like much work, but I had been working from 8:30 to around 17:15.Anyway, back to work.