raising a snow leopard
user-interface:
disable spotlight
- http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/20/disable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/
- $ sudo mdutil -a -i off
- http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892
- $ rm /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
- http://superuser.com/questions/32593/remove-spotlight-icon-from-the-menu-bar
- $ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/
- $ sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/
- $ ps aux|ack -i systemui
- $ kill -9 <ui id>
snow-leopard Dock:
python2.4 setup.py build && sudo python2.4 setup.py install
- Finer Things In Mac
- defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock
install XCode, System Tools, X11 from Snow-Leopard DVD
install macports via dmg
install macports via dmg
install via ports
- sudo port install wget emacs subversion mysql5-server mysql5 python24 libxml2 libxslt py-libxml2 py-geoip postgresql83 postgresql83-server
python libs, manual install:
- python setuptools
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
- python2.4 setup.py build && sudo python2.4 setup.py install
- cd /opt/local/bin/
- sudo ln -s mysql_config5 mysql_config
- mysql-python
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/
- python2.4 setup.py build && sudo python2.4 setup.py install
- python-cloudfiles
- git clone git://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles.git
python libs, easy_install-2.4:
- datetime
- python-dateutil
- ftputil
- hashlib
- lxml
- cython
- pygresql
- sqlalchemy