[olug] Who else has a Mac?

Daniel Pfile daniel at pfile.net
Fri Nov 11 00:55:08 UTC 2005


Your install cds should have a developer cd. That has xcode and gcc  
on it. You can go to developer.apple.com, get an account, and  
download from there as well.

-- Daniel

On Nov 10, 2005, at 6:44 PM, Neal Rauhauser wrote:

>  I recently got a new customer with a flock of Mac G5s. They want  
> to centralize file storage on a Windows box they own with a raid  
> array and I've done very, very little with the Mac since the late  
> 1980s. Today I took the plunge and shelled out $1000.41 for a Mac  
> Mini with a Super Drive, three years of AppleCare, and the USB  
> stuff to make it work with my existing PS/2 KVM.
>
>  The machine fired right up out of the box, found an IP address,  
> discovered it had about a dozen updates waiting which it promptly  
> pulled, then we were off to the races.
>
>  I loaded up Palm Desktop 4.2.1, messed with it a bit, and it just  
> won't behave with my Samsung i500 phone. $39.95 later I have The  
> Missing Sync which is much, much more configureable, license bound  
> to the machine's ethernet MAC address, and my phone is mirrored.  
> This is relevant because the aging IBM Thinkpad T22 on my desktop  
> just lost its job running Windows 2000 /w Palm Desktop.
>
>  I went to http://darwinports.com, pulled their little application,  
> and it behaves quite a bit like the ports stuff I'm used to in  
> FreeBSD. I don't yet have a compiler and I'm wrestling with how to  
> coax that out of apple.com, but so far I'm very impressed with the  
> form factor, the relative silence (less noise than my quietized  
> Athlon 2000 in the closet /w door closed), and the bundled software.
>
>  I'm not sure, but I think I like this ...
>
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