Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07
Around this time, episode 500 of RetroMacCast should be out.
It’s an “about weekly” podcast centered around classic Apple computers, mainly of the Macintosh kind but occasionally also on the Apple I, ][, //e, //c and ///, IIgs and Lisa kinds.
After all these years since they started in 2006, It’s still fun to listen to.
Occasionally they do a vodcast on YouTube, for instance their 100th show below.
New episodes are announced here:
Source: [WayBack] Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/31
There are [WayBack] 7 ways to lock your MacBook – CNET: When it comes to locking your Mac, you have options.
For now I’ve added the below alias to my ~/.bash_profile which only works if you have “require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver begins”. I have that enabled (with a 5 second delay, not immediate so that when I’m behind my laptop and it starts the screensaver I can still move the mouse or touch a key to keep it awake).
alias sleep-display='pmset displaysleepnow'
See:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/30
Back in the days, Apple and The Beatles were in a heated fight as Apple was not supposed to do anything resembling music in their systems.
So when sounds needed to be made, they could not be named by words having to do with music.
The legal team in Apple – known for lack of humor – was scrutinizing sources and documents on names that would be inappropriate.
Jim Reekes came up with letitbeep for one of the warning sounds, but that was too obvious, so he said sosumi, pretended it to be a Japanese word and named the sound just like that.
I learned from it through one of the RetroMacCast videos below. Then I found the page Sosumi – Wikipedia. So I guess I’ll be never to old to learn (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/17
I wasn’t expecting it to be so easy to install PowerShell on Mac OS X:
brew install Caskroom/cask/powershell
In the background it executes this script: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/powershell.rb. which indirectly goes through the URL template https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v#{version}/powershell-#{version}.pkg.
On other non-Windows systems, you have to go through GitHub yourself: https://github.com/powershell/PowerShell. The PowerShell team at Microsoft has many more repositories including the Win32-OpenSSH port which you can find through https://github.com/PowerShell.
At the time of writing, PowerShell was available for these platforms:
The first version I installed on Mac OS X was this: ==> Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.17/powershell-6.0.0-alpha.17.pkg
By now I really hope it is out of Alpha state.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/06
A Wi-Fi enabled 1990 Macintosh Classic built with LEGO, powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero running docker and a 2.7″ e-paper display by EmbeddedArtists.
Cool stuff!
Source: [Archive.is] LEGO Macintosh classic with Wi-Fi and e‑paper display running docker
Via: [WayBack] This guy built a (kind of) working Lego Macintosh, and now you can too … | 9to5Mac
This should run well with a Classic Color Macintosh System 7 emulated on Raspberry Pi: [WayBack] On this tutorial I show you how to run Mac II OS color on your Raspberry PI, I have also included a compiled version for Windows. Running Mac OS 7 on Raspberry Pi with Color – Novaspirit
via:
ROM images: [WayBack] Index of /pub/software/ROM/Macintosh 68K
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/02
I hear stories of people having their replacement screens stain as well, some of them get a renewed free repair. [WayBack] Apple Extends Free Repairs of Anti-Reflective Coating on Select MacBook and MacBook Pro Models – Mac Rumors.
Affected models for an initial repair:
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2013)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2013)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2015)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
- MacBook (12-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook (12-inch, Early 2016)
- MacBook (12-inch, Early 2017)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11
- Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
- Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
- Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window
Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBack] Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/25
Reminder to self: see if I can order this:
Apple II Ethernet Module – This product is based on the Wiznet W5100 chip. It has an embedded hardware IP stack. Contiki, IP65, Marinetti and ADTPro have been updated to work with the new card.
We will be using Itead as our current PCB supplier.
The card will be assembled by Circuits Central
Source: [WayBack] Welcome to a2RetroSystems
Other links:
–jeroen
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