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kerberos permission denied in OS 10.5

Experienced a weird problem with a fairly new OS 10.5 machine today.  My boss had spent the past couple weeks configuring an install of 10.5 on an external FW drive (keeping the 10.4 install on the local drive so as not to disrupt work for days on end while configuring / installing apps) and the time [...]

Installing MySQL + MySQLdb in OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Anyone that is a python developer and that uses mysql will tell you getting MySQLdb can sometimes be a bit of a pain, and every time I reinstall my system I have to dig around to find the instructions to build it properly.So this time I thought I would document what I did on my [...]

Ad blocking with safari

I often wondered if the custom style sheet support in safari could be used to do rudimentary ad blocking, turns out it can
Check out http://www.floppymoose.com
I kind of like this idea because it doesn’t add any more cruft onto safari that has the potential to crash plus I’m not super adverse to seeing ad’s [...]