Archive for the ‘Apple/Mac’ Category
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Posted in Apple/Mac, Networking, Xbox | No Comments »
Problem: Many instructions that I have found to connect your Xbox to the Internet using your Mac (with Airport and Ethernet) did not work for me. I experienced an interesting problem while following these other instructions, and managed to find a solution.
Quick Solution: Follow other instructions on the Internet, but make sure that your Mac’s Ethernet address is manually set to “192.168.2.1″ with a subnet mask of “255.255.255.0″.
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Frustrations | No Comments »
Problem: I need to move my Windows XP Virtual machine to a Boot Camp installation so that I can boot straight into Windows.
Quick Answer: Still working on it…
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Frustrations, Opinion | 16 Comments »
Usually I post articles that describe how to get around a problem that I had, but this is just about how frustrated I am with Apple’s Numbers, part of the iWork ‘08 suite.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Networking | No Comments »
Problem: I have a computer running Ubunutu (Linux) and I needed to ssh into it for some MySQL management. I set up the ssh server, and was able to enter my username and password, but would be denied because of a wrong username/password combination.
Quick Solution: Even if your username includes a mix of capital and lowercase letters, you should use all lowercase when using terminal.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, WordPress | 22 Comments »
I recently upgraded to a 1 Terabyte external hard drive and wanted to move my Time Machine backups to that drive (and start using this new drive for Time Machine). This is how I did it.
Quick Solution: Use Disk Utility to Restore your old drive to your new drive, then tell Time Machine that you want to use a different disk
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 20 Comments »
This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it.
Symptoms
- You just installed GlowWorm.app
- Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode
- You can boot into safe mode
- You can boot into single user mode
The quick answer: boot into “safe mode” and run the GlowWorm unistaller.app and disable firewall; reboot.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 1 Comment »
This article covers an error with Adobe CS3 (Mac). The two symptoms that I know of are
- “The help system cannot be launched because the help folder is missing. Please install the help folder or reinstall Dreamweaver” error message OR
- nothing happens when you launch help from one of the apps (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc)
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