User:Urban/Mac

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Misc useful stuff for Mac OS X:

• Set up your won iTunes server - Basically just enable iTunes sharing on server. Not very interesting.
• Tao of Mac on how to enable PHP
• Mac OS X Packages including MySQL
• Running X11 on Mac OS X
• How to burn CDs using the command line
• How to convert DMG to ISO

Boot Camp

• Apple - Boot Camp
• Apple - Boot Camp FAQ
• Apple - Boot Camp Setup Guide
• Boot Windows from external disk
• Winsows on Mac: What you need to know - Some notes on external drives and slipstriming.
• Custom Boot CD with USB Drivers - neeed to install external disk. Note: Works with USB disk only, not FireWire.

Other questions:

• The GPU clock on some Macs are turned down, but this can apparently be changed in windows. How?

Virtualization

• Parallels Blog: Upcoming beta - Parallels to have DirectX and OpenGL support. Yay! No reboot!

.Mac

• Free .Mac alternatives?

Apps

• Open Source Mac
• Crucial Mac Apps - College Edition
• Fink GNU package tool.

Hardware

• Fixit Guides for the Mac

MySQL

• Installing MySQL (MySQL)
• MySQL on Mac OS X (Apple)

LAN

Useful links for using a Mac Mini on the LAN (gateway or media server):

• Mac USB Ethernet adapter drivers
• Mac Mini Media Center
• MediaCentral may be an alternative to Front Row.