Xiaoyu

Since I bought mac mini, I like working on Mac systems. However, sometimes, you do have problem of it. for example, if you want to use Visual Studio on Mac system, there is no Visual Studio 2009 Mac version. What you can do about it ?Normally, there are two ways to solve the problem. The two ways are installing VirtualBox/ VMware/ Parrallels and install bootcamp + Windwos system. then you install your visual studio on the windwos sys. for me, I do like this two solutions. they affect the performance of mac, and I want to install Windows on Mac(since windows always copy other people’s work, it is shame to use their products) Here I use the third method. the methods is installing MS remote desktop connections. of course, the down part is you need second computer which link to same network with mac. but it is work perfect for me.

Visual_studio_on_mac_mini

after i sold my Dell d600 which about 5 years old. I got my first mac at 2009 April. as you see, i have use mac for a while.

And my mac is the cheapest mac in the mac store. it is the latest version mac mini.

the photo is took in 04 Beijing. it is the first time I meet Jim’s mac, which is my first time meet Mac computer and system.

JimMacSam

Now back to Open source topic. few weeks ago, i got one old desktop which is 7 years old. it is quite old pc. but to install XP or linux. it is still quite fast. To use voipdisacount call my mom who live in China. I have to install XP on the old pc. however, there is only wireless available at my home. The 7-years-old desktop is definitely without wifi. then my old desktop is standalone pc, which is useless. because i want to install voipdisaccount call China. well, Thanksful, I figure out, mac os can easily share internet resource with other pc via cable or firewire. besite that, there is few options allow mac user to hosting web/share file/etc.

accidently, I found that mac os preinstall Apache Http Server and Filezila FTP server(actually, right now I am not sure about their license), anyway, I am very surprised about that. I thought Mac os would supply its own http server or FTP server. These components won more credits than ms.

finally, i found Python also pre-install on mac os. since I go to mac os world, I start understanding people why shift to mac , NEVER BACK TO MS OS.

If I discover more interesting stuff from mac, I would post here later on.