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Dropbox on Jolicloud?

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Problems with installing Dropbox?

First, install the Dropbox Client from the App Center. Go to the settings “tab”, the little gear icon. Then select “This Device” on the right column. Click “Legacy Apps” and open up “Local Apps”. There, you’ll see that your device was waiting to finish the install device this entire time.

The current problem is that the icon on the main screen is still grey, and seems to not open up anything. In the very least, you can access your Dropbox.

Remember, alt+tab works, so leave Nautilus (the file explorer) open, and just hop back and forth.

// Ah, looks like you can access the Dropbox folder via clicking on the icon on the top taskbar.

Homebrew (Mac) Installation

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Homebrew is an up and coming successor to Fink and MacPorts. Although a bit generically named, it works quite well for a lot of the things I muck around with these days, which tend to have that web development smell to it.

It used to be that I had to get a git binary, then grab homebrew from github, then uninstall the git through the binary, and then install git through homebrew. Then, the fun would begin.

Now, it’s even more streamlined. Just grab the installer gist from the README.md page, and it should work. Although, I couldn’t get it to work and I was in a hurry, so I just grabbed the master tarball, and just physically moved the resulting /bin, /Library, and README.md.

Note: This probably worked for me because I already did everything else that was in the install script earlier, such as chmod’ing the /usr/local folder, as well as adding /usr/local/bin to the path.

Hooray for adhering to POSIX standards (Reference here: This is an awesome read, by the way, if you ever had any questions about why directories were as such in a Linux/BSD setting.).

brew install git
brew install ruby
brew install stuff

More on how brew affects Ruby on Rails installations later.

Reinstalling Leopard on the MacBook Air

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If you do a Google search for anything related to leopard macbook air installation or reinstallation, you get all these blog posts about how the included DVDs will only work on a MacBook Air. This is obviously not news… Apple has been including system specific discs for some time… But really, that’s beside the point. This post is for those that are really truly looking to “(re)install leopard on a macbook air”.

This is in the users manual, by the way, on page 46. It looks like that there is an included application to do just this called: “Remote Install Mac OS X”. Thank you, Quicksilver, for making my search for this application that much quicker.

Very Important (and the mistake I made twice): DO NOT try to run the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 through Remote Disc. This is not the right way to reinstall Leopard on your MacBook Air. You’ll just keep putting in your password and restarting your computer wondering why nothing is happening.

It’s taking a ridiculously long time for my MacBook Pro at the “Waiting for MacBook Air to start up…” dialog box, which is highly discouraging. I even bought the Ethernet dongle so that this process would be made at least fast as if I had a USB external DVD drive (Gigabit ethernet isn’t the bottleneck (1 Gbps), it’s the USB 2.0 (480 Mbps)).

Oh. It’s done. Time to go nuts and reformat the thing.

And yes, I’ll start blogging again soon. That’s one of the many reasons why I bought this thing to begin with. Now… if it’ll work as it should, I’ll be very very very happy.