https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/macbook/ Recent content in MacBook on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:22:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/noise-canceling-headphones-2008-02-28/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:22:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/noise-canceling-headphones-2008-02-28/ Some 9 months ago I left my noise canceling headphones on a plane. Since then I’ve though I’d just self suffer for my carelessness, and I’d decided the next set I would buy would be Bose. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microsoftisms-on-my-macbook-2007-12-17/ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:48:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microsoftisms-on-my-macbook-2007-12-17/ Seems Mac OS/X has not escaped the unnecessary annoyances of Windows. Below are details to unstall a product on my MacBook, following it crashing my machine a few times with the “blue screen on death” below. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/macbook-essential-installs-2007-12-02/ Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:39:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/macbook-essential-installs-2007-12-02/ I’m being able to spend more time using my MacBook finally. The following are some essential tools I needed to install. Firefox – Browser Skype – Chat, Voice Calling Colloquy – IRC Chat VLC – Media Player for xVid Mac the Ripper – DVD Extractor Parallels – Virtualization for Windows XP https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mac-printscreen-2007-11-30/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:14:46 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mac-printscreen-2007-11-30/ There are many things I’m coming to grip with on my new MacBook. One is missing buttons on the screen, like Page Up, Page Down and PrntSc. Well I at least found out from Eric that I can get Print Screen with the following keyboard syntax. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-under-mac-osx-105-2007-11-30/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:34:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-under-mac-osx-105-2007-11-30/ Time to install MySQL on my new MacBook . $ cd /opt $ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/ $ tar xvfz mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz $ cd mysql-5.0.45-ox10.4-i686 $ scripts/mysql_install_db Installing MySQL system tables... 071129 22:10:48 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /opt/mysql-5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-macbook-2007-11-19/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:48:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-macbook-2007-11-19/ I arrived home last night at midnight from San Francisco to a pile of mail and a number of packages. My shiny new MacBook had arrived. It was rather ridiculous that I wanted a HDD upgrade and I could no buy it in the store.