Tag Archives: Mac

Database, Mac

OS X – Fail to start MySQL server which is installed by Homebrew

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After i reboot my OS X, i find that i couldn’t start the MySQL server and it throws the following error:

hatuey:5.6.19 yingkityuen$ mysql.server start
Starting MySQL
. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql/hatuey.local.pid).

 

Go to the above folder and delete the mysql error log which is ended with .err. In my case, i executed the following command:

hatuey:5.6.19 yingkityuen$ rm /usr/local/var/mysql/hatuey.local.err

Where hatuey is my Mac machine name.

This should fix the problem.

Done =)

Reference: Mahdi Yusuf – MySQL ‘The server quit without updating PID file’

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Chrome, Web Development

Chrome – Bypass Access-Control-Allow-Origin on Mac

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About a year ago, i posted an article about allowing the Javascript accessing the local file system in order to read the local JSON file.

 

So if you are using Mac, you need to quit the Chrome application. Then execute the following command in Terminal.

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args --allow-file-access-from-files

 

Reference: Disable same origin policy in Chrome on Mac OSX

Ruby

rbenv – Ruby version manager

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rbenv is an alternative to rvm for managing your Rubies. You can find some articles comparing the two. In general, rbenv is more lightweight without overriding the cd and gem command which rvm does and their similarities outweigh their differences. Here is a great article written by Jonathan Jackson about the two solutions.

 

For Mac users, you could install rbenv using Homebrew. Otherwise, you need to checkout the repository on GitHub.

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Mac

LibreOffice – Batch convert files to PDF

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LibreOffice supports PDF conversion. What you need to do is to open the document in LibreOffice and click the Export as PDF… option under the file menu list. It’s good and simple to convert a single document but quite tedious if you have more files.

For batch conversion, we need to make use of the LibreOffice command in terminal.

1. Go to the directory which contains the source files.
 

2. Execute the following command to convert ALL files which ends with .odt into .pdf.

soffice --invisible --nologo --convert-to pdf *.odt

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Mac, Windows

rEFIt – Boot Manager for Mac

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Finally i get the Windows 7 installed on the Mac Mini.

 

Then i tried to do the same for the MacBook but i couldn’t find the usb drive on the boot menu. After asking Google, it is found that for those Mac machines which are equipped with the super drive (dvd drive), they cannot be booted by external devices. I try to install the rEFIt boot manager but it still doesn’t work.

Finally i have to use the Boot Camp to install the Windows 7, but i have to find a DVD Windows 7 installer. Anyway, the Boot Camp is really cool and all drivers are automatically installed.

Done =)

Mac, Windows

Windows Drivers for Mac machine

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Recently i have tried to install Windows 7 in a Mac Mini and a MacBook. I have a Window 7 installer in a bootable usb. Just keep pressing the option key on startup and you could select the boot device in the boot menu. It works fine for the Mac Mini and the Windows 7 is installed without any problem.

But after the installation, i found that many drivers are missing. Finally i found a blog post written by Chris F Carroll. You can find all the details about getting the drivers from the Boot Camp package in that post so I am not going to repeat it here.

 

Done =)

PHP

Composer – Manage your PHP dependencies

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Mess up with the PHP dependencies in different environments? Composer is a PHP dependency manager where all the dependencies information are stored in the JSON file called composer.json. Similar to the pom.xml if you are using Maven in Java.

This example is done on a Windows machine. You could refer to Composer website if you are using Mac or Linux.

1. Download and install the Composer as stated in the Composer website.
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