MacBook Shuts Down When Lid is Closed

For some reason my MacBook would shut down and completely reboot when I closed the lid to put it so sleep. I tried resetting the Power Management Unit (SMC), no luck. I also tried resetting the NVRAM by holding Option-Command-P-R during startup, that did not work either. I had an eerie suspicion that it may […]

Leopard Installation Woes

The installation seemed to be going just fine. As the guided tour showed, I just popped in my DVD, clicked the install button, then clicked restart. It takes quite some time to install, so I poured myself a nice cold mug of Asahi and watched the Dragons even the Japan Series. I thought the installation […]

Macbook Memory Upgrade

Since I have the lowest end 2nd generation MacBook, I figured it is about time to upgrade the memory. Apple’s website says that the MacBook is upgradeable to 2GB, so I set off to get it along with Leopard. I am currently in Japan, and have very poor Japanese reading comprehension, plus I just figured […]

cakePHP

Fresh out of the oven, new cake build. A Pre-Beta version of Cake 1.2 was recently released. This is great news for those that do not want to build from subversion as there has been a lot of work completed since the last version was released. The Beta version will not be released until all […]

WordPress Version 2.3.1 Released

WordPress version 2.3.1 was recently released. This is a bug and security fix release for the new 2.3 version released at the end f September. If you have not had the chance to upgrade I would recommend it as the 2.3 version codenamed “Dexter” has some great improvements over the 2.2 branch. Some of the […]

Upgrade to Apache 2 and PHP 5 in cPanel with 7 Simple Steps

Apache 2 was released quite some time ago and is very stable, so why aren’t you using it? If you are anything like me, it was because you were worried about compatibility issue with cPanel and Apache 1 has served you quite well. The straw that broke the camels back for me was wanting to […]

Leopard available today!

October 26, 2007 marks the first post of Serving Aloha, it just so happens that today Apple is releasing OS X v10.5 Leopard. The Leopard Operating System boasts over 300 new features.

Desktop. A neat place to work. Organize your dock items with stacks which can be displayed in fan or grid display.
Finder. Give your files […]