Visual Grammar

Apple changed mind and put back the InputManagers support in the last minute before releasing Leopard. So all is not lost, but it’s still been another hassle for me to work out getting back to the normal work flow. For me, Saft is a part of safari, so head on to Haoli’s page and download!!!!  I’ve got the patch for the moment, and we’ll see how this all goes.

The upgrade to Leopard was seemless until I relialized that it had created two issues.  First the upgrade TRASHED my sandbox and second, I had to hack through and replace some core functions to get parallels to work correctly due to what looks like some issues with mounting virtual drives.  Anyway, anyone who has or will be making this transition…here is how I worked it out.ParallelsGetting Parallel’s to work required scanning through this document http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=87017#post87017 and doing two things: 

• Eliminating the “Getting Timeout error message when mounting VM Windows disks” by downloading a fix from google Macfuse
• Enabling the virtual memory preallocation to get the environment to run smoothly.

Those to taskes seem to have eliminated my problems and system crashes. I was not able to salvage my IE6 environment and had to destroy and reinstall. Not nice.Getting the apache server to work properlyThis was a bit more tricky. I’ve done a couple things. First here is the reference to the apple discussion board that pointed me in the right direction.  Read this thread before going any further.  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1187457&tstart=15.  You have to edit the httpd.conf file to enable php 5. For some ABSURD reason, the install doesn’t do this. You can edit via the terminal, or you can use a text editor like bbedit. Make sure you edit the httpd.conf file in the APACHE 2 folder..there are multiple versions in several places.   To locate this file, in the finder go to “go” and then locate folder and input /etc. That will get you the correct spot. Locate apache2 folder and then the httpd.cof file. Drag it to your desktop and then MAKE A COPY BEFORE TOUCHING THE FILE. Uncomment the line that refers to php5 and then save the file. Go to file sharing and turn off the webserver and then copy the file back into the apache2 folder. It will require authentication, but it will work. Restart the web sever from the sharing control panel.  This is all covered in the link above.

Second, I had to modify the users using the terminal which is also documented in the link  provided above. You will have to do this via the terminal, and if you’re not familar at all with completing tasks in the terminal, then be VERY careful. If you are unfamilar with what the sudo command does, google it and do a little research first.

 Look for this reference in the link provided above:

migration assistant fails to copy or recreate /private/etc/httpd/users/ in /private/etc/apache2/users/. A fix in Terminal.app is sudo cp /private/etc/httpd/users/* /private/etc/apache2/users/

WHAT THE ##@$??  For Apple to do something like this is a bit disappointing. Good luck. I expected more from apple than something like this.

Pardon the mess.  In moving to Walker Marketing, I’ve removed the old visual grammar site and will be building a more active content website.  Should be launching the new look by Nov. 31st.