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Installation Guide for Linux Mint 17 / Ubuntu 14 04 on Mac mini late 2012

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:19:17 +1000

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 based distribution on a Mac (or any EFI based computer) has become very straightforward. If you read my previous guide on getting Ubuntu installed on Mac mini guide and thought it was long and too many things to configure, relax because you only have to run few commands with the latest Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux mint 17 distributions.

Firstly, remember that you can either split your Mac partitions using DiskUtil and have a separate partitions for your Linux or you can wipe the whole disk and have just Linux on your Mac. If you choose to go with the first, then make a partition on your Mac, of at least 10GB for Linux. And remember how much disk space you allocated for this partition as in the Ubuntu/Mint setup, you will have to point to this specific partition.

Enabling XDebug in AMPPS 2.2

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:06:36 +1100

Once you have installed AMPPS 2.2 on MacOSx and navigate to PHP section in the AMPPS UI.

Click on “Php Extension” button and you will see a list of extensions but XDebug, In order to get Xdebug to appear in that list you will have to goto /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/

and copy the xdebug.so file in /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/ directory to /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/ext directory.

Then the xdebug extension will show up in the extensions list.

Why I chose Linux over MacOSX after using a Mac for a year

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:40:59 +1100

First month with a Mac

I had never used MacOSX till January this year when I got a new job and didn’t get an opportunity to let the company know my preferred setup for work. So I ended up with a MacMini late 2012 with an i7 CPU and lots of RAM. So It was very clear to me at the time that I would be stuck with it for a long time. Since I never used MacOSX I wasn’t aware of how the mouse or keyboard works and it took me almost 2-3weeks to get familar with most of the short cuts and basic functionality, so I thought of replacing the workstation I had at home with a Mac too, so that I can spend time using MacOSX and somehow minimise all sorts of embarassing situations I faced at work specially with the basic use of keyboard, mouse and software installations 😀

How to Setup an Amazon AWS EC2 NFS Share

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:42:38 +1000

This article will be short and to the point, so whoever wants to mount a remote nfs share in their local machine they should be able to get it up and running in 5 mins or less. Here we go!

Step – 1 Setup AWS security groups

In your EC2 instance setup following Security group exemptions, it would be a good idea to create a separate security group called “NFS Services” or something to leave these exemptions separate from the rest of your security groups.

NFS Shares between Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OSX 10.8

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:23:18 +1100

Mounting NFS volumes between Ubuntu and Mac OS X 10.8 was a problem for weeks, I started using SMB shares as I couldn’t get both systems live in harmony! But today fiddling with zillion different configurations in both sides I got Mac OS X to accept my NFS exports from Ubuntu 12.04. This is how I got it working….

First you need to export directories from Ubuntu end, so you may need nfs-kernel-server package installed in the ubuntu system.