Format Your External Hard Disk That Support Mac and Windows with Apple OSX

If you have an external hard disk or thumb drive and you would like to access(read/write) the hard disk on both Mac and Windows, you can format the hard disk with Disk Utility in Mac into several partitions like FAT32,…

MySQL 5 Server Cannot Start on Apple Mac Leopard

There were some problem during configuring MySQL5 Server on Leopard with MacPorts when creating default db with command; sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5 Error Messages; shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied job-working-directory: error retrieving current…

Install MySQL5 Server on Apple Mac Leopard with MacPorts

Previously I wrote a post on “installing postgresql 8.2 on Leopard with macports“, seem like quite a no. of people also interested to know how to MySQL5 as server on Mac Leopard with MacPorts. As usual, it’s advice to update…

Exim, Recipient Verify on Relay and Mail Server

How many of you got dictionary/ratware attack on your mail server which take unnecessary processing load to do virus scanning or spam scoring? We have more than thousand (average) dictionary attack on our mail server in an hour and it…

Apple Mac Startup Scripts – launchd

Wonder how does Apple Mac machine start up background services automatically? It’s using a daemon called “launchd” for those who are interested to know how mac manages startup programs/services, check our launchd official documentationon Apple’s website.