Category: Mac

Updating to Snow Leopard

Also machen wir es erstmal kurz. Ich bin erstaunt wie problemlos das Update von 10.5 auf 10.6 von Statten ging. Mein Ansatz war, das System neu aufzusetzen und dann per Migrations-Assistent meine Daten zu übertragen. Was soll ich sagen? Nach jetzt gut 3 Stunden ist alles fertig. Und bisher fand sich nur Cyberduck, welches die

Changing UserID in MacOS 10.5.x Leopard

There is no NetInfo-Tool any more. So you have to use the Command Line Tool dscl. (For more info type “man dscl”) So to change the userid (UID) of user db2admin from 502 to 507 type: sudo  dscl  . -change /Users/db2admin UniqueID 502 507

for all mac ruby devloper outs…

for all mac ruby devloper outside: http://www.macruby.org any opinions about it so far?

safari 4 sets (get back your safari 3 gui)

Disable new Toolbar Features (e.g. tabs on top) defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO Disable iPhone-Style Progress-Bar defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO via: fscklog.com

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what to do, if you locked yourself out from Mac OS?

Yesterday I found myself in a strange situation: Every Shell Command I tried to use ended up with a “command not found“. This happened with sudo, nano … you name it. After a short time, I figured out that the folder /usr/bin (where all these programs are stored) had only executable rights for the owner

Safari, Spotlight Craches after Timemachine Restore

So i almost gave up with solving some strange Software Crashes For Example: Spotlight wasn’t active. There was even no Spotlight icon. Safari Crashes when i type the second word into a google search field. After a while i browsed through my folder-tree and so i detected, that the tmp folder. I remember that i

patch File for compiling storeGPU on Macos with CUDA 2.0

I am currently working with a middleware-App Demonstration using Nvidia’s CUDA. After some time i make the example to work on MacOS 10.5. You will need: CUDA SDK and Toolkit for MacOS (you need to add the kext driver manually when installing the Toolkit) the StoreCPU Sources   If you try to compile the source you

Telegramm eines iPhone Kaufs

In guter alter Tradition, möchte ich hier noch einmal in kurzen Worten die Gegebenheiten am vorigen “iPhone 3G Freitag” beschreiben: 08:00: Der Wecker schellt. In froher Erwartung schwinge ich mich aus dem Bett und heize den Kaffeeautomaten an. In Anbetracht der letzten iPhone-Einführung in Deutschland gehe ich den Morgen gelassen an. Mein Mitstreiter des Tages

update macos ipmitool

During my experiences with IPMI i figured out, that there is an issue with the build in ipmitool for MacOs. If you want to use the IPMI 2.0 protocol (needed for Serial over Lan (SOL) ), you have to add an “-I lanplus” to the ipmitool command. The problem is, that there is no such

How to get Flash Videos to your harddrive?

You just need: isquint Apple Safari HowTo:   for a Fullscreen-Version, click here

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