VMware: Team Fusion: A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple\’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7: \”May 13, 2009
A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple\’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7
Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, and I know many of you are eager to try it out. However, if your Mac has an ATI graphics card (MacPro or iMac), and you rely on VMware Fusion\’s 3D Acceleration feature to run either Windows games or other Windows 3D applications in your virtual machines, we recommend that you do not upgrade your Mac to 10.5.7.
We are making this recommendation because the ATI driver in Mac OS X 10.5.7 breaks the 3D acceleration feature in VMware Fusion. You will likely see issues ranging from slow performance, to incorrect rendering, and even crashes, when you run your 3D applications in a Windows virtual machine on Mac OS X 10.5.7.
Both Apple and ATI are aware of this problem and are working to correct it in a future software update. In the meantime, if you have an ATI graphics card in your Mac and need VMware Fusion\’s 3D features to work, we recommend that you do not upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.7.\”
Reconfiguring your language?
A quick and easy method to change the primary language under Mac OS X is to open a terminal window, and run is command…
sudo \”/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser\”
Select your language, close the language chooser and restart your system to invoke the changes. Â There have been a few reports of the language settings being damaged during Mac OS X 10.5.7 installs… Â This should help prevent that issue….
6 Secrets For Lasting Weight Control Outcome
What\’s the magical formula to achieve your weight goals? Everyone is looking for the easy diet or pill to lose extra pounds. With all the media hype about new products and diets, it’s easy to forget…
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Devices that are On!
Folks,
Just updated the Devices that are On! Indigo Plugin to avoid the \”status\” screen that was appearing after you toggled a device off. Â The new version (v1.01) will now automatically refresh back to the Devices that are On! screen, thus allowing a simplier workflow.
[download id=\”7621\”]
[download id=\”7623\”]
Please feel free to make any suggestions for other plugin\’s….
What Devices are On!?!?
Well, I was going through the usual feeds this morning… Â And noticed this:
This sounds like a use for Smart Folders (devices filtered by state), but I\’d really like to be able to see a page on Indigo Remote that show only lights that are on. I\’ve got 70-something light controllers, and I\’d like Indigo to do the work of finding the ones that are on, rather than me scrolling a long list.
Is this possible now?
Well, it wasn\’t as of a few hours ago. Â But a quick modification to the Indigo Remote Device Listing plugin, and a few tests here, and there, and we have the \”Devices that are On!\” plugin.
It will list all the devices that are currently on, and has a hyperlink on the name. Â If you click on that hyperlink Indigo will turn the device off, and then show you a brief status on the device.
Version 1.00 Â — [download id=\”7619\”]
Superceeded by Version 1.25 B– [download id=\”7623\”]
Snopes!!!!
I finally got annoyed enough at Snopes.com to find out why I can\’t highlight anything on the site. Â I use the site quite often to debunk emailed chain-letters from family and friends…
But, I can\’t reliably cut & paste from the site. Â All I can do is Select All & Copy… Â Which typically meant alot of editting in my email application…
It\’s simply a javascript application running on the web page, and that\’s allow you to click unless you are over a input / form box. Â So to re-enable your cut \’n paste, just turn off Javascript temporarily… Â I personally think that this is vile, and serves no obvious reason other than to make it harder to share the information….
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Debt Payment in Pennies
An online discussion regarding the Pirate Bay, led me down this road, and I thought I would share…
Claim: U.S. law specifies that merchants do not have to accept more than 100 pennies in payment.
Status: False.
Origins: This is one of the pieces of misinformation that makes me wish web sites like this one had been around when I was a kid so I have could pointed my father toward it and told him to shut up already. I can\’t recall how many times he solemnly intoned that \’Pennies are not legal tender in quantities greater than 100\’ and therefore merchants were \’legally\’ allowed to refuse any offer of payment that included more than one hundred one-cent coins (and, presumably, could not \’legally\’ refuse payment offered in any other form of legal tender). As with so many other things he was dead wrong (and I knew it even then), but I had no way of proving him wrong. I can now, though.
(View the rest of the article at snopes.com: Debt Payment in Pennies)
Our Wonderful Nature
Okay, this one is quite Safe for work, except for cartoon violence… But I don\’t know if I would suggest it for any minors…
But it answers the question of what happens when you cross a nature documentary about Water Shrews & a Hong Kong Martial Arts flick (with Jet Lee). Oh and add in a dash of the Matrix….