Virtualization Solutions on Mac OSX
- September 22nd, 2009
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I like to have some virtual machines to hand for various things and not having used a Mac before I was unsure as to the best virtualization solution.
Archive for September, 2009
I like to have some virtual machines to hand for various things and not having used a Mac before I was unsure as to the best virtualization solution.
So Saturday I’m sitting around wondering why I’d heard nothing from a friend I was due to meet.
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Alright, so I’ve been using my Macbook Pro 13 with Snow Leopard as my main computer for around 4-5 days.
We had a user in the office today of whom was using Kubuntu (the KDE Ubuntu) and wanted to allow all local addresses access to his machine on port 80.
Kubuntu comes with ufw (uncomplicated firewall), which frankly is crap and doesn’t allow ranges across more than just the last subnet. So we disabled it and jigged our own iptables script in rc.local.
In the office SSH access is firewalled based on the external IPs that each PC has and I’m often dragged away from my desk to view issues on other people’s PCs etc…
I wanted to be able to SSH out to servers from my laptop or the machine I’m visiting but I needed to somehow tunnel the traffic via my external IP so the firewalls would let me through.
I was debugging a Perl script for a customer of whom whenever the cgi script was
requested via the web it triggered an internal server error.
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I had a customer today that wanted to enable caching on certain filetypes within their site to help it’s speed. It took me a little while to get working so I thought I’d post it here for anyone else.
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I’ve recently decided to try Google’s online cloud offerings, namely the calendar and the docs as they seemed like they might be useful.
Until now I’ve resisted having any such online presence beyond that of Facebook and Twitter but I’d been considering it for a while.
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