Tag Archive for 'mac'

Windows and Mac backups using rdiff-backup

30Oct06

I’ve got two machines that I need to backup, an iMac running OS X 10.0.3 and a Dell running Windows XP. The iMac is the primary home machine with about 13Gb of pictures, music, documents, etc, etc. The Dell is more of a development machine with about 1Gb of files to backup.
I wanted a backup [...]

Where’s JAVA_HOME on my Mac OS X?

13Jul05

I was installing CruiseControl on my Mac the other day when I realized that I needed to have JAVA_HOME set. Running which java returned /usr/bin/java. This was a symbolic link to the file /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/java. Eventually I figured out that the path I was looking for was /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home.

# Symbol in Mac OS X

28Feb05

I’m relatively new to the Mac and I’ve just realised there’s no hash (or pound as I think our American friends call it) key on the keyboard. After a quick google I found that you need to press Alt-3. Do Apple not ship European keyboards?