Tag Archives: osx

Delorme PN-60w & Topo 9.0 on OSX Lion with VirtualBox

Posted by on December 14, 2011 No comments

This week I switched the VM software I use from Parallels to VirtualBox. There are many reasons for this, but the primary one is that VirtualBox is free and I can put it on all the machines I want. Another reason is that I can share virtual disks etc with my Linux workstation that already has VirtualBox installed. I’ve been very happy with it on Linux, so I decided to try it out on my Mac and the results were great.

Since my primary computer is a Mac and I enjoy using my Delorme PN-60w to it’s fullest, I chose to run Topo North America 9.0 in a Windows virtual machine so management of maps etc is super easy. I had set this up without any issues using an XP virtual with Paralells, but VirtualBox and Windows 7 presented some obstacles. I’ll explain how to get it all working in a few easy steps.

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PHP pcntl.so on OSX Lion (and MAMP)

Posted by on November 16, 2011 1 comment

pcntl.so install for system’s PHP install

Recently I needed to use pcntl_fork with a project and found that the stack I was using (MAMP) didn’t include support for pcntl.so by default. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to install on Lion.
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How to install ssh2.so for PHP 5.3.x on OSX Lion and MAMP

Posted by on November 12, 2011 5 comments

For a recent project I needed to use the ssh2 extension with PHP. I had tried to use phpseclib, but found that it doesn’t support for DSA keys (a requirement for my project). Using the instructions below, you can easily install ssh2 support for PHP using homebrew.

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