How can you find out what display is connected to your macintosh? Â Well, on the desktop\’s you can examine the monitor, probably… Â But what about your laptop? Open a terminal window, and type this in: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed \”/[^<]*</s///\” | xxd -p -r | strings -6 For example: [nerv:~] benjamin% ioreg […]
In my best Gomer impersonation: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise… Microsoft has officially extended supporting Office:Mac 2004 to January 10th, 2012. Â They are stating that this will now offer a seamless transition between 2004 and Office:Mac TBD(2010 presumably). For users who rely on the VBA support that is found in Office 2004, this will allow a seamless […]
Have you seen these messages in your console log? 10/5/09 9:04:37 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, requestedTransferCount 0, transfer direction is 0 10/5/09 9:04:38 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, requestedTransferCount = 0, transfer direction is 0 10/5/09 9:04:39 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, […]
I think I need to start to put some Racoon feeders out, because I keep hearing some odd noises… Â Coming from the console…. 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKE Packet: receive success. (Responder, Aggressive-Mode message 1). 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Aggressive-Mode message 2). 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKEv1 Phase1 AUTH: success. […]
Is partitioning hard drives on Mac OS X recommended or advisable? Â (Based off a Super User submission) There is certainly no problem with creating another partition for your user data (aka home folder). In fact, this is a very common thing to do on *nix based operating systems. In fact, with Leopard & Snow Leopard, […]
VMware Fusion 2.0.6 Update Now Available VMware Fusion 2.0.6 is a free update for all VMware Fusion 1.x and VMware Fusion 2.x users. You can download the bits here. VMware Fusion 2.0.6 fixes multiple issues when running VMware Fusion 2.0.x on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (32-bit kernel mode), including: Mouse losing focus on Snow […]
I just installed a new motherboard, MSI K9N Neo V3 with an Athlon X2 4400+. I bought a 2GB stick of RAM , with the intention of ordering 3 more when I have the extra money, for a total of 8GB. The problem is, in the manual for this board, it said that the maximum […]
Safe mode is available in Mac OS X 10.2 or later, and is one of the more useful ways to troubleshoot the Macintosh OS. To start in Safe Mode, hold the Shift key down as your Mac starts up. Starting up into Safe Mode does several things: It forces a directory check of the startup […]