Following my rant on http://www.davidsudjiman.info/2007/06/14/vmware-fusion/, now Citrix provides Citrix client for Leopard and PowerPC MAC OS X with 128-bit SSL encryption.
Check out this link http://www.citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?dID=2755&downloadID=3250&pID=186.
I recently bought external Firewire HD for my backup purpose. Why Firewire? Because it’s the only supported interface that Apple Mac can boot from external device.
This is the step-by-step how-to to clone your HD to your external Firewire HD using Carbon Copy Cloner and it supports Leopard compared to SuperDuper.
Once you are ready with your new external Firewire HD, in this example I’m using LaCie d2 Quadra 500GB, plugin the Firewire 800 cable to your Mac Book Pro and it will auto mount.
Open your Disk Utility application and repartition it. This step is optional. The reason I’m doing this because I need to create similar partition size like my Mac Book Pro 160GB HD (MBP). In this example, I can create 2 160GB partitions and 1 around 145GB partition. I still can use the 145GB to clone my 160GB as my MBP is not fully occupied.
For easier reference, I will change the first partition to the date I make my HD clone.
Turn off your applications and your wireless or your network so that you won’t change your HD state.
Open up your Carbon Copy Cloner, choose the correct settings and you are good to go!
Once you finished reboot your. Once it’s rebooting, press OPTION button and then you will see several options where to boot from. Choose your Firewire clone to boot up from your external Firewire HD.
During the Macworld Expo 2008, just few days ago, Apple announcing a product called Time Capsule. A Hard disk plus a wireless router.
Looking this idea would make Time Machine user’s on Leopard even happier while they can use the wireless plus without having to get caught plugging in and out the external Hard drive. Time Machine will be able to back up your machine to Time capsule, wirelessly, no hassle. Just every time your computer connects to the Time Capsule Wireless router, your Mac will automatically doing its backup job. You can actually forgets whether your computer is backed-up. Brilliant idea, isn’t it?
One thing is probably missing. I said probably because we have not see the real Time Capsule out on the market yet.
Currently my Linksys WRT54G is 24/7 on, faithfully serving my mac day in – day out. If I have Time capsule, of course, I would have my wireless router activated 24/7, right? The question is, will the Hard disk survive?
I don’t read and see any article mentioning that Time Capsule will have an active cooling system for its Hard disk and that could definitely kills the Hard disk inside.
My Linksys WRT54G will survive without internal FAN, even when my room reaches 35C during summer. It really rocks!
On the contrary, when I turn it on my external Hard disk for more than 6 hours without having an internal FAN, it gets really hot!
Still thinking to use Time Capsule 24/7?
And I’m not finished!
I am actually expecting Apple to release better product than Time Capsule. A product that can store your file wirelessly and play your video and photo files to TV. A rather mix between Time Capsule and Apple TV with more features. Much have been better off if it can play HD/Blu-ray DVD. It’s called a media center.
Similar product has been out on the market called Mediagate MG-350HD. Although it does not play DVD but it stores your files and plays it to your lovable TV. Can Apple make one of these? Yes. Does Apple make one of these? No!
It is not about whether Apple can make it or not but it is merely whether Apple see this the needs of a media center as an opportunity or not.
Linksys also have several similar NAS and media center products but none really answer my prayer.
This article is a continuity from my previous article.
As I’ve upgrade my MBP from Tiger to Leopard, some adjustment needs to be made.
If you get the Leopard CD, you can install XCode 3.0 from it. Go to Optional Install – Xcode Tools – and run XcodeTools.mpkg to install.
Or you can also download it from http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/. You need to get Apple Developer Connection to get it.
This package is installed by default when you have Leopard on your machine. However, if you need to install X11 SDK, you can use Leopard CD. Go to Optional Install – Xcode Tools – Packages – and run X11SDK.mpkg to install.
Get this MacPorts-1.5.0-10.5.dmg and install it.
Update your port list.
sudo port -v selfupdate
Install libpcap
$ sudo port install libpcap $ sudo ln -s /opt/usr/local/libpcap.a /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a
Instal libelf
$ sudo port install libelf
Download the latest Dynamips 0.2.8-RC2 source code and install it.
$ curl 'http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2.tar.gz' -o dynamips-0.2.8-RC2.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf dynamips-0.2.8-RC2.tar.gz $ cd dynamips-0.2.8-RC2 $ make $ mv dynamips dynamips-0.2.8-RC2.intel-mac.bin $ strip dynamips-0.2.8-RC2.intel-mac.bin
Greg has put his Dynamips compiled on Leopard. You can download this binary from here
If you happen to use Fan Control for your MBP or MB and your Fan Control showing – (minus) value for your fan speed and showing – (minus) value for your CPU temperature, you better upgrade the package with the latest one, Fan Control 1.2.
Have you update your QuickSilver for your Leopard? Check this out! Since its main link is down.
I didn’t think it was going to be this quick. Apple updates its Leopard to fix Login, Keychain, and Wireless issues (Article ID: 306804). I realize that I have wireless problem after several days of using Leopard. The signal strength has decreased and intermittent flapping issue although I’m using wireless within 5 meters range with nothing blocking the signal.
After updating Leopard, seems that it does not fix the signal strength problem but the network flapping issue seems has been rectified. Let me monitor it for the next several days.
There is also a forum discussing these issues.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is just just around the corner.
When do you think Leopard will get its first update?
No later than 7 working days since it’s released?
