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Setting up Virtual Hosts with XAMPP on a Mac

Sometimes, putting a website into a subdirectory just doesn’t cut it. You need to have the website act like it’s on it’s own first party domain. But how do you do this with XAMPP? XAMPP uses Apache web server and to do this with Apache, you would create virtual hosts.

To create some XAMPP virtual hosts on our Mac, we need to

* create a virtual hosts entry for each virtual host
* include the virtual hosts file in the httpd.conf
* add an entry in your hosts file for each virtual host
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Getting a larger virtual monitor with a Mac hosted VirtualBox and Ubuntu guest

Ubuntu with 1024x768 screen in VirtualBox

Now that's a respectable 1024x764 Ubuntu view in VirtualBox on my MacBook.

I use VirtualBox on my Mac for “other” operating systems.

I was recently creating a new Ubuntu guest OS for doing some work with PostgreSQL on Linux. I like a GUI, so I was using pgAdmin. Normally I don’t care if the window is 800×600, but when I started using pgAdmin, I couldn’t see all of the window.

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Wireless Keyboard: Connection Lost

This is the most vexing problem I am having with my MacBook. Some OS update seems to have boned my bluetooth keyboard connection.

This keyboard thing has a “sort of” fix where you put a pea sized piece of aluminum foil into the battery well before putting in the batteries. This has made the problem less frequent for me, but I still see my connection coming up and going down intermittently.

What the hell kind of fix is that?

(Thanks to Mathew Cropper for the image.)

Getting accustomed to Mac: a short list of peeves

Switching to a Mac has been unexpectedly easy. I can do almost everything I would want to do with the exception of watching streaming NetFlix movies – and that will hopefully be resolved soon. Besides that one nagging issue, here is a list of things I need to get used to.

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Eric Holsinger
Saco, ME 04072
ph: 207 . 749 . 1703
eM: eric.holsinger@gmail.com
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