Hack your Mac

May 22, 2001

When Apple released OS X to the world in March they provided the equivelent of crack to the average mac os tech geek. Since the very first beta I have been tweaking the OS on my G4 to make it more like a Mac and enable tons of professional web server features from the open source commnunity.

For the very brave users out there, one no longer has to wait for Apple to bundle a new security update months after they become availble to the rest of the world. If it is available in open source you can go out and get it and then recompile it.

The last three nights I have been fast at work recompiling MySQL, PHP, OpenSSL, and custom configuring Apache to run on MacOS X. Not only do I get a robust web server on my G4 tower out of the deal, but also I get a portable development environment on my PowerBook to build dynamic web sites on while I am on the road.

The next generation sites for the siteSatellite network will all be built in this new development environment. No more guessing how a page will integrate on the server with all the include and database files. :)