By Robert J Berger, on May 8th, 2010
It use to be somewhat difficult to have Filesystems on an Ubuntu system show up on the Mac Finder the same way that other Mac Filesystems would show up. There has been the Open Source Unix implementation of the Apple File System (afp) but for a long time the Ubuntu packages were not properly configured to [...]
By Robert J Berger, on May 2nd, 2010
I wanted to do some experimenting with various tools for doing Hadoop and HBase activities and didn’t want to have to bother making it work with our Cluster in the Cloud. I just wanted a simple experimental environment on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard Mac OS X.
So I thought it was time to revisit installing [...]
By Robert J Berger, on March 5th, 2009
The instructions for installing the Apache Thrift on the Wiki missed a few key things in terms of installing on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case) and Macintosh OS X Leopard (10.5.6).
Gitting the latest source
For instance they show you how to get the latest via SVN or a snapshop via wget. But the wget actually gets it [...]