MAMP hang after OSX unclean shutdown
by Mats Hellman on 26.Nov, 2009 under Apple, Mac OSX
Today we had a power outage and after a few hours when power finally came back on I tried to get my development tools up again, everything was fine except for MAMP. It seems MAMP isn’t able to delete it’s PID files after something like this so it just flashed and shut down. This is because it thinks it’s already running even if it’s not.
Anyway, MAMP uses it’s own Application folder to store the pid files and the fix for this is really simple. Open your terminal and
iMac:~ rm httpd.pid
iMac:~ cd /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql
iMac:~ rm mysql.pid
After deleting the PID files MAMP should start just fine again.
My software picks for OS X
by Mats Hellman on 04.Nov, 2009 under Apple, Mac OSX
As some of you might know I’m not a Windows only user. I do use an iMac at home for all my design and photo work. I also love the simplicity of OS X. It does what you expect it to and it does it well. This is probably why I feel the need to post some of the software’s I as a 1+ year Apple user have found useful.
I’m sure there are plenty more out there and if you whish to ad something to my list please do so in the comments.
I also want to point out that not all of them are free. Some cost, but as most programs for OS X they cost under 100 USD so it’s really not a big deal. The list is in no particular order.
Correct way to set up OpenVPN client on Mac OSX
by Mats Hellman on 01.Sep, 2008 under Mac OSX, Windows
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I’ve been using it a lot at work. It does have some annoyances I might never get used to but overall it’s a really great laptop computer.
Anyway we use OpenVPN at work and Tunnelblick is THE client for OpenVPN connections in Mac OSX. I had some resolving problems and found out that some programs don’t even use /etc/resolv.conf like they do in most *NIX operating systems I’ve used. So googling around I found this great article about it and thought I’d post it here in case I need it again. Also it might come handy for someone else.
So checkout the article at http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/10/correct-way-to-set-up-openvpn-client-on-mac-os-x/
