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 ...
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... The Whole Story I have been using Parallels Desktop for Mac version 3.x, but recently upgraded to Parallels Desktop for Mac version 4.x. Apparantly one of the features as ...
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. Background I use a Mac because it is much more stable than Windows. Also, the open source community is well plugged into working with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) I ...
