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At work I am in charge of running our Macromedia Adobe Contribute Publishing Server.
Since I like to duplicate my work environment on my laptop for local development, I needed to install JBoss 4.0.5.GA.  I won’t go into why we are running such an old version, that’s all Adobe’s fault.
Installing JBoss

Download the JEMS installer for 4.0.5.GA [...]

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One of the small annoyances I have with Firefox is the default URL used for the Google search plug-in.  While I generally just type in a search term and hit enter, I do sometimes just hit enter without a corresponding search term just to get sent to the main Google page.  Why do I do [...]

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In the application selection process for 10.5, the X11 maintainers elected not to include Xnest.
While most users will probably not need this, since you can export X11 application through a SSH connection, sometimes it is quite handy to have the entire gui session available from a remote server.
I use this when managing some of my [...]

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Now that Mac OS X has almost been out for a week, there are a lot of articles coming out concerning the security features and their effectiveness, or lack thereof:

OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed
Do not go Back to My Mac
Leopard with chinks in its armor
A Roundup of Leopard Security Features

Some people are pointing out some [...]

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So I have spent the last several days playing with the latest release of Mac OS X 10.5 codenamed Leopard.
Over the next few weeks I will be posting new articles relating to some steps I have found that may make your switch more enjoyable.

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