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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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Why should I use a custom built memcached instead of Apple's Xcode version?

Memcached seems to be preinstalled with Xcode on OS X, according to Apple's documentation. To make sure I'm not hallucinating, I checked Apple's developer tools documentation. Yes, memcached is supported and documented by Apple: Apple Developer…
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Is there a way to set up Oracle on Mac Lion without VM?

I really would like to avoid having to install virtual box just to use Oracle 11g. Is there a way to install it into Mac OSX?
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Sync Exchange Calendar to Google Calendar

Without having access to the Exchange server, is there an app I can run on my OS X desktop to sync my Exchange-based calendar to Google Calendar? I really don't mind if it just duplicates the events from Exchange to Google Cal. Thanks
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Apache unresponsive on OS X Mountain Lion after upgrade

I'm having trouble getting Apache set up on my MacBook in Mountain Lion after I upgraded from Leopard. I tried following these instructions. I have the LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so line uncommented in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf,…
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vhost file not bring recognised by apache

Hi sorry total noob to Apache and Macs here... feel the answer is really obvious but I've been looking for ages without success I have the following lines in /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf NameVirtualHost *:80
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Installing BugZilla on Snow Leopard Server: Perl install issues

I'm installing BugZilla on Snow Leopard Server (latest version) using these instructions. And I'm having problems installing required perl modules. It says to run commands that look like this to install required modules: /usr/bin/perl…
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How to set up vhosts on Mac OS for zend framework?

I've added a virtual host in my vhosts file like this ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com DocumentRoot "/Users/myname/Sites/test/public" ServerName test …
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Unattended silent install of Java on OS X Lion/Mountain Lion (OS X 10.7, 10.8)

As Java is not installed by defaults on Lion and Mountain Lion systems (OS X 10.7, 10.8) I would like to deploy it to all machines on our network. I understand that I can simply download the .pkg and remote install it through Apple Remote Desktop.…
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VirtualBox failure building guest additions module

Having trouble installing GuestAdditions in VirtualBox / Vagrant running under Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). I haven't worked with VB/Vagrant before nor much with Linux so looking for a little guidance... Error! Your kernel headers for kernel…
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broken fetchmail configuration

I'm trying to configure fetchmail on my OSX 10.5.6 box. I've setup my .fetchmailrc as follows: poll my.mailserver.com with proto IMAP timeout 30 user "username" is "username" here options ssl keep I'm using a .netrc file to store my…
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Data loss through permissions change?

I seem to have deleted some files on my media drive, simply by changing the permissions. The Story I have many operating systems installed on my computer, and constantly switch between them. I bought a 1TB HD and formatted it as HFS+ (not…
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Apple File Sharing fails to connect

Running OSX Lion Server (10.7.4), and about once a week or so the Apple File Sharing service stops letting clients connect to its shares. On the client we will see a dialog box stating "There was a problem connecting to the server ". Browsing the…
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Pointing a domain at my OSX Lion web server

I recently inherited a new Mac Pro, and I'm attempting to turn it into a full web server so I can hopefully stop paying someone else to host my sites for me. I've had limited experience messing around with setting up servers, but I have next to no…
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How to reach a virtualized application server running on Mac OS X from an outside computer or tablet

After Googling for hours on end looking for a solution I decided to leave a message on this forum. I hope you guys can give me a push in the right direction to solve this issue. I am using a Macbook running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). This machine…
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afp/smb transfers caps at 2 megabytes/sec, wireless N

I wanted to transfer files between two mac computers. The network is wireless-N and both computers have wireless-N modules in them. The problem is that when I transfer files between them, via file sharing (afp) the network speed caps at 2…
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