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Some people are not very content with the new look of the Dock in OS X 10.5 Leopard. There is an alternative version that can be activated, but first lets look at the two versions of the Dock that can be used. At first we have the default look of the Dock, the second image is a picture of the alternative look of the Dock.

OS X Leopard originally ships with PHP 5.2.4. This is a short overview about getting it to work with the default Apache HTTP Browser that comes with Leopard. The Apache version by the way is 2.2.6.

First Step

The first step is to edit the httpd.conf file which is located in /private/etc/. You'll have to do this as the 'root' user, so first you'll have to fire up a terminal which is located in "Applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Terminal". Make sure you are using an administrator account for the following steps.

The RBT-3000 (alias BlueGPS) is a Bluetooth GPS receiver from RoyalTek. The specs of the device can be found on their site.

Recently on OS X Tiger (10.4)... I wanted to change the routing table depending on the network environment which I am using.

OS X has a pretty neat features that enables you to react to changes in the network (IP address changes, etc). This usually happens if you move around with your mac from one network to another. When a network change is detected, a utility called configd is waken up. This daemon sits in the background and waits for network changes to take place. When network changes do take place, it executes a certain set of commands. A more detailed description of this process can be found at the following links: