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25th September 2009 - Link Blog

MySQL, Python and MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I gave up on compiling things when I upgraded to Snow Leopard—I’m back to running Ubuntu in a VMWare instance, mounted over Samba so I can still use TextMate.

Posted 25th September 2009 at 10:14 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th September 2009.

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