First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.

haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

"WebServer" {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88}

Then start it using VBoxHeadless

nohup VBoxHeadless -s WebServer -vrdp on  &

I’m using Cord for RDP.

Open up Cord. If you’re using the default settings, you can just go to quick connect and type “localhost”. You’ll see your VM booting.

# create a folder for the mount point
sudo mkdir /Volumes/music

# mount the disk
mount -t afp afp:/// /Volumes/music/

#refresh the finder for when you get back
disktool -r

# when you're done
sudo umount /Volumes/music

Found on macosxhints

I kept getting the below error when trying to start puppet, even though I had created the user and group through the accounts prefs pane. Apparently that’s not good enough for the PuppetMaster to run.

For some reason this figuring this out was a huge pain. These are the steps I took to getting it installed. If it looks simple, well, that’s because it really is. Most people suggest solving this with MacPorts, but then I still wouldn’t know how to set up users and groups on Snow Leopard, so I’d just be screwing myself over in the long run.

Anyways, here’s the error I was getting:

err: /File[/var/puppet/rrd]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource:
Could not find group puppet

How to solve:

1. Install Facter and Puppet


This is easy enough – Snow Leopard comes with Ruby by default. Both can be downloaded from the Reductive Labs download page.

2. Install Server Admin Tools.


As of this blog entry, you can find them in Apple’s downloads section, although it was kind of a pain to find.

3. Enable Remote Management for youself


I was not able to connect to localhost until I enabled this option. You can control which users have management rights, so I’m not to concerned here.

4. Create user and group for puppet.


Use the GUI tool to create new a puppet user and group. You should now be able to start the pupptermasterd (yay!)

I’ll expand this post if I realize I forgot anything, or if questions come in.

These instructions are based on the ones found on the NumPy site, but I’m summarizing things for my own use later on.

First, you’ll need to install the Fortran compiler for OSX (gFortran). Fortunately there’s a Fortran universal binary installer.

Next, get the NumPy source. You can find it on Sourceforge.

Now, build with gFortran.

python setup.py build –fcompiler=gnu95
python setup.py install

Enjoy!

http://www.turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mounting-remote-filesystems-on-osx-leopard-using-sshfs-macfuse-and-macfusion/

If you’re using Snow Leopard, the drive will not be able to mount. You can get around this by deleting /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so

Software

Xcode
Adium
Launchbar
iTerm – change defaults to black background. (edit bookmarks, default, background)
Apache HTTP Server (source)
MySQL (source)
PHP (source)
Eclipse PDT
Omnigraffle
Fluid
BBEdit
SubEthaEdit
Git
SVN
Memcached

Tweaks

Remove everything from Dock.

Fix the look of the dock.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

/etc/bashrc tweaks

alias v=”ls -lahG”
alias vi=”vim”

me:
i’m terrible w/ cocoa
i don’t particularly like objective-c
it’s to verbose

matt:
[me putonSock:blueOne onFoot:rightFoot ignoringHangNail:YES]

I’ve recently discovered Fluid. Fluid brings creates Site Specific Browsers. This means I have an actual application that I launch called Gmail. It’s independent from everything else, doesn’t crash when Safari does (which, to be honest, is all the time). I can assign it to a space. So good.

Also, I’ve discovered hitting F9 (expose) after triggering F8 for spaces, it’ll do expose over all the spaces. Pretty cool way to organize.

I never was a power user of quicksilver – I did like a lot of things in theory, but I never took the time to memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Since Launchbar is a commercial product, hopefully it hangs around a lot longer. That and I paid for it.

However, I tried to format the drive on my Mac (Leopard) and got the error “File system formatter failed” when I tried to format the disk as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Not cool.

I found this forum thread which suggested using multiple partitions to solve the problem. When I was trying this, I went into options and changed the partition scheme from Master Boot Record to GUID partition table. It formatted fine.

To test things further, I changed the scheme back to 1 partition, and left the format as GUID partition table. This time it worked flawlessly.

The GUID type says it will not work as a start up disk MacOS older than 10.4. So if you’re still on Panther you can’t boot up off my backup drive. Try not to cry too much.

Update: here’s a few reasons why GUID owns MBR