Archive for April, 2006

X11 mobility with Xmove

Posted by dre on April 29th, 2006

X11 is a windowing system for *nix computers. There is one point about X11 that needs to be understood before anything that follows will make sense, so I’ve cribbed the following bit from the X11 wikipedia page to explain:
X features network transparency: the machine where application programs (the client applications) run can differ from the […]

The Journeyman’s Guilde to Quicktime Presentations

Posted by dre on April 29th, 2006

This guide will demonstrate a method for creating multi-track, multi-media, self-contained quicktime movies. A good example of this would be the presentation format where there are multiple tracks of media that need to be coordinated with specific timings. Perhaps there is a ‘talking head’ video track, and a series of slides that need to be […]

Cacti in Tiger Server

Posted by dre on April 29th, 2006

Install XCode
Install and configure darwinports
Download the newest version from macosforge.
Add the darwinports paths to your shell config file. e.g.
PATH=”/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH”
Update the ports collection
sudo port -d selfupdate
Install rrdtool from darwinports
Execute the following to install rrdtool and all of its dependencies for you.
sudo port install rrdtool
Local user setup […]