Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
As usual, not that immediate to find a proper answer on the 'Net, hence I'm providing one here.
While in Snow Leopard was quite easy to see your ext2/ext3 formatted disks via MacFuse and ext2-fuse, in Lion you need to install another fuse fork and select a special option. That new ...
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Had a need, found a solution, reporting the procedure here.
First, you need to understand what is the disk name of the device you want to format.
For example, if you have a MacBook Pro and a SD card, this is done using disk utility, selecting the card reader where you inserted ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Since I always fail to remember this... ;)
Control+A ==> send commands to screen
Control+A, followed by Control+\ exit the session
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
This awesome USB to Serial adapter was working perfectly in MAC OS X Snow Leopard, but it did stop when I upgraded to Lion.
Luckily I've found good hints on few websites and because I've been able to fix it and now I have this working again, I've decided to document ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Found this process well described on Ubuntu website, hence thought it was a good idea to report here also, for future usage.
Note: this procedure requires an .img file that you will be required to create from the .iso file you download.
TIP: Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal ...
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
...on the keyboard of a MacBook Pro?
Simply press Alt + Shift + 8 and you'll get a...
Happy New Year!
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
Note to self, because this is something I want to look at sooner or later... therefore I'll post it here.
This looks like a very good intro tutorial: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/learn-automate-mac-applescript-part-1-introduction/
Kudos to MakeUseOf!
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking... sure , boot with 6 and 4 pressed and your Mac will boot in 64 bit mode.
But I'm talking aout the other way around: haveing your modern MacBook booting in 64 bit mode, and possibly turn it into 32 bit only when you ...
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