[HOWTO] Triple Boot Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows XP on MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (Part 2)
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft, Operating System
Anyone with simple knowledge of Windows XP installation would be able to complete this portion easily. The main concept of this portion is creating the drivers for the hardware, installing Windows XP on the correct partition, and install all the drivers. During my process, I do not meet any unexpected behavior at all. I was able to identify the correct partition easily because of the type and the size of the partition. The drivers CD burnt from Boot Camp will update all drivers needed by Windows. AppleMouse Utility easily allow right click by using Ctrl+Click.
More info will be provided if there are comments with problems.
Tags: Linux, mac, Mac OSX, macbook pro, Microsoft, os x, ubuntu, windows
[HOWTO] Triple Boot Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows XP on MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (Part 1)
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft, Operating System
In this guide I will show how I triple booted my machine with the big 3 desktop operating systems: Mac OS X, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Windows XP. I get most of the stuff from Ubuntu Wiki and customize it as I go along. I will also outline the places where I get some problem and highlights how I resolve it. I will also skip mundane, easy to do stuff such as turning on your computers, how to open a terminal, etc.
This guide will be separated into three different parts where each parts serves certain purpose.
- Partitioning and Installing EFI Boot Menu
- Installing Windows
- Installing Ubuntu
Each part will also contain FAQ and troubleshooting section for that specific portion.
Ingredients:
- Mac OS X with Bootcamp 1.4 (Link)
- Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 AMD64 – Alt CD (Download: ISO | torrent)
- Windows XP with SP2 (Creating SP2 CD from regular XP CD)
- rEFIt 0.10 – EFI Boot Menu (Download: DMG | ISO)
Tags: Linux, mac, Mac OSX, macbook pro, Microsoft, os x, ubuntu, windows
[SOLVED] WPG2, NextGEN Gallery & 1and1.com Unzip Utility
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Featured, Hosting in General, IT in General, Linux, Microsoft
I am working on my friend’s site yesterday. She wants to have a photo gallery and wordpress. I checked out Gallery2 and found that there’s a wordpress plugin for it. I installed both (including imagemagick to use with Gallery2) and added the WPG2 plugin. While trying to activate WPG2 on WordPress I kept on getting the message “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error”. I have made sure that I followed the instruction on the readme.txt to the dots, but nothing still comes up.
Therefore I try another plugin called NextGEN Gallery. Everything works great except for the slideshow. Once again I’m stumped on what’s the problem.
When I look at the HTML code, the slideshow code is trying to read a file called “nggextractXML.php”. I try to type in the URL and gets a 404 message. I thought that it was a bug, but I found out that on the server it was listed as “nggextractxml.php”. I download the file to a Windows machine and unzip it using WinRAR. The file name is correct with the upper case.
At that moment, I realized that the problem lies with 1and1.com unzip utility. I have been using the “unzip” command from the CLI and it has always been extracting using the -C option. To solve this I create a “.bash_profile” file under my home directory and added the following line:
alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'
If you’re having the same problem as I do, you can either create the file by using the instruction above or run the following command from the SSH:
echo "alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'" >> ~/.bash_profile
Or, you could just also download, unzip and upload the Bash Profile
Tags: 1and1, mac, ssh, unzip, windows, wordpress
[HOWTO] Moving Mails Through IMAP
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft
There are thousands of clients out there with thousands of different databases used to save e-mails. Not all database files are compatible with one another. The most notorious of the bunch is PST. I got this idea after reading this article from HowToForge.com. The article mention conversion of PST to Maildir format only, but this can be extended to much more than that.
The most important thing that you need is an IMAP server. You can build the server yourself on a Linux by following the instruction on the link above at HowToForge.com, or from your ISP. Most ISP provides mailboxes with IMAP access. After you have the connection to your IMAP provider, everything is just a drag and drop. In Outlook, you can drag and drop e-mails or folders to the IMAP server. On the new client, you just do the opposite, drag and dropping from the IMAP server to the new client of choice.