Installing 4 Gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM into a Macbook that won’t take it…

Ok I have this black Macbook that I got last August, my first ever Mac and I love it,  Macs  just make life so easy, especially since most of my servers are Linux based. Whenever I need to use Windows I just use a VM, VirtualBox namely.

Anyway, I found that overtime the 2 gigs of RAM that I had in this mac would fill up from all the applications I had open. The logical choice was to get more RAM. I bought 4 gigs in total, in a 2 x 2gig config. The RAM was from Crosair because that’s my preferred brand.

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Installing Corkscrew on Mac OS X 10.5

So I wanted to get around a proxy that was really bothering me. It would not allow me to get ssh access out of the network that I am in. After talking to a mate of mine that is a big Linux head (especially Debian) I decided to look into Corkscrew.
It seems to do the trick nicely, allowing me to tunnel ssh through a HTTP Proxy.
So to install it on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Step 1. Getting the Source and Other Tools

The first thing to do is to get the source for corkscrew so that it can be complied for your platform (I had a very quick look for some binaries for OS X, but no joy).

Next you will need the gcc compiler…This is included in the XCode Tools that come with OS X 10.5 on Disk 2 and can be install from there…You only need this if you do not have gcc install already

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