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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
A few tools to prevent your screensaver to run:
Note: on Windows 7 this will not prevent the inactivity timer on an RDP connection!
–jeroen
via: windows xp – How to prevent screensaver – Super User.
Note: no need to write it yourself :)
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/13
A big drawback from a MacBook Air is that it only have wireless LAN/WiFi (in the form of Integrated AirPort Extreme 802.11 a/b/n/n), no physical ethernet.
Transferring large amounts of data over any WiFi is can be a pain (being slow, suffer from signal quality) and for the MacBook Air: it makes the built-in fan swirl like crazy.
Since the MacBook Air does not have USB 3.0, I went looking for a 100 Mbps USB Ethernet dongle for it, and fone the DealExtreme product #34691: USB 2.0 10/100Mbps RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Adapter Dongle.
At a price of about USD 7 including shipping, it comes in an Apple compatible shiny white color too, nicely fitting the 4 port USB hub (DealExtreme # 45773) on the right :)
Even better: it works like a charm!
Note that first need to download and install the ASIX AX88772B drivers first. Choose the Apple Mac OSX 10.4 to 10.7 Driver for x86 and Power PC download package labelled “For Apple x86/Power PC, 32-bit/64-bit platforms”.
The install tells you to reboot at the end, but no need for that: as soon as the install finishes, the USB Ethernet dongle works. And it is fast too: 12 megabyte/second over a 100 megabit cable is fast!
In the readme of those drivers, it also mentions the AX88178, which is capable of gigabit (there is a separate AX88178 driver download page and Mac OS X download package).
NB: the cool thing about both these ASIX chipsets is that they are supported on a broad range of platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows CE, Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2000) and bit sizes (32-bit and 64-bit).
For even faster transfers, I might try the DealExtreme product #15336: Arkview USB 2.0 1000Mbs Gigabit Ethernet LAN Network Adapter.
It is slightly less than USD 20, and user Janipro indicates it is based on the ASIX AX88178 chip at the DealExtreme forum.
On the other hand: I might not, as for more than twice the price, user cyberic mentions in the same forum thread it is only about twice as fast: 23 megabytes per second, about half the maximum USB 2.0 speed of 480 Mbps. And it is not Apple white :)
–jeroen
Via: USB 2.0 10/100Mbps RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Adapter Dongle – Free Shipping – DealExtreme.
Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/09
This might have been caused by my MacBook Air haning itself one time during resume: I manually turned it off keeping the on/off switch pressed for 5+ seconds, then rebooted.
Anyway: over time I observed that the fan was running fast without much CPU/GPU/memory/disk activity.
Resetting the SMC like the answer below, followed by resetting the PRAM and NVRAM solved my issue.
I had exactly these issues with my new Macbook Air 13. Having read this forum I downloaded istat pro and discovered that my fan was always running at over 4000 rpm and the top left part of my case was quite warm. I then followed the instructions here…resetting the SMC and after this the problem was fixed!
–jeroen
via MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion: Apple Support Communities.
Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, Power User | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/01/02
My Mac Mini Server had its’ primary HDD failure. It got replaced by the iAmStore service center, but contrary to what they promised, they didn’t put the Snow Leopard Server image on it.
So I grabbed an external USB DVD player, booted from the Snow Leopard Server install DVD, and restored the Time Machine backup from my external USB HDD.
Somehow, after the restore, Spotlight wouldn’t work: only the search bar was visible, but nothing else.
I tried various tips all having to do with erasing Spotlight for my root volume (so it would be automatically be reindexed), or many-part steps including killing SystemUIServer, Clearing Caches and Rebooting.
In the end the most simple one worked: just “turn Spotlight indexing on”.
My assumption is that Spotlight information is not backed up, and during restore Spotlight is turned off because continuously reindexing during restore will make the restore slower.
If someone can confirm this (or deny and explain the real reason), please post a comment.
This was what user nkt00 had posted as solution on the Apple forum:
I figured it out. In the man page for “mdutil” (type: “man mdutil” at the terminal shell prompt), it describes the option “-i”, which turns indexing on or off for the specified volume. I just typed:
sudo mdutil -i on /and away it went
This was the screen output:
Last login: Mon Oct 31 19:31:01 on ttys000
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$ mdutil -s /
/:
No index.
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$ sudo mdutil -i on /
Password:
/:
Indexing enabled.
macminiserver01:~ jeroenp$
Now I’m happily using my Mac Mini Server again.
--jeroen
via No results from Spotlight: Apple Support Communities.
Posted in Apple, LifeHacker, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, Power User, SpotLight | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/30
It took me a bit of searching to find this out, as the Windows RDP clients switched over to “/admin” for this a long time ago:
with the Mac RDC client, you can connect to a servers console by adding “/CONSOLE” to the end of the computer name
–jeroen
via MacUpdate: Member Profile – Nate Silva.
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/26
The below video shows you how to harden your Mac, supposedly even for 28C3 next week.
Thanks Philip Brechler for announcing and posting this video, your interesting youtube video channel and your blog.
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/23
Note that Sharing a Mac folder through VMware Fusion to a Windows VM works, but is:
To configure a shared folder in a Windows virtual machine:
- Launch VMware Fusion.
- Power on the virtual machine.
- Click Virtual Machine > Settings.
- Click Sharing.
- Select Share folders on your Mac.
- Click the + button.
- Browse to the folder on the Mac that will be shared with the virtual machine and click Add.
Shared folders can be accessed via the VMware Shared Folders shortcut on the Windows desktop or the mapped network drive Z:.
–jeroen
via VMware KB: Sharing a folder from your Mac to a virtual machine.
Posted in Fusion, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/21
Not only Microsoft has the bad habit of removing or changing features between (for Apple often minor) operating system upgrades.
This time it is between 10.6 and 107: OS X Leopard, OS X Snow Leopard and OS X Server had a “System Profiler” application that would tell you all about the hardware present in and connected to your Mac.
It has been named “System Profiler” over more than a decade (actually it had almost 3 lustrums), bot no more: As of OS X Lion, this is called “System Information”, and has been redesigned.
Both quoted names can be easily found by using the Spotlight quick search (which I think is still one of the brilliant pieces of software in OS X).
–jeroen
Via: OS X Lion: Reclaiming the System Profiler Application | TMO Quick Tip | The Mac Observer.
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/18
I’ve had RSI in the 90s before it was even called RSI, I quickly found out it was because of using a computer mouse.
So I quickly learned all the keyboard shortcuts of the things I use everyday.
Most of the CUA and Windows keyboard shortcuts stored in my spline, and having done quite a bit of Mac development lately, it took a while for Mac keyboard shortcuts to end there as well.
Here are a few nice overviews of handy Mac keyboard shortcuts:
Have fun with them!
–jeroen
Via: mac os x keyboard shortcuts – Google Search.
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/14
If you have reactions on the question below, please add them to the SuperUser.com thread when possible.
Every once in a while, my MacBook Air becomes unresponsive when it is sleeping and I open the lid.
It seems to only happen in these circumstances:
When opening the lid, the backlight goes on, but the MacBook Air does not react on any key-combinations I tried.
I tried these, but to no avail:
The only thing that works is to press the Power button for 5+ seconds (forcing a hard power off) then reboot.
Two questions:
–jeroen
via: VMware fusion on MacBook Air with OS X Lion seems to hang when getting back from sleep – Super User.
Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, Power User, VMware | 2 Comments »
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