Archive for the 'OS X' Category
I’d heard of ‘Hackintosh’ and various attempts people have made to build their own computer to run Mac OS X, but I wondered if Mac OS X would run on a new computer I had just built — surely not, but I decided to find out.
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May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Mac, OS X | No Comments
After deciding that I would use Sun Solaris and its ZFS file system as the foundation for a home fileserver, the next part was to select compatible hardware, as Solaris has fairly limited driver support for hardware.
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Mac, OS X, Software, Storage, ZFS | 68 Comments
After my Panasonic DMR-EH57 HDD/DVD video recorder refused to play DivX format video from DVD+R discs recorded on my Mac Pro’s ‘SuperDrive’, I looked for a solution and found one, which I will now describe.
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January 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Apple, Hardware, How To, Mac, OS X, Software, Storage | 2 Comments
After using Leopard for a week or so, here are my first impressions but, overall, it seems like quite an improvement over the last version of Mac OS X, which was already pretty good.
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November 4th, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X, Software | No Comments
Adding a second internal SATA 2 hard drive can make your normally whisper-quiet Mac Pro quite a bit noisier. Here’s a solution that worked for me.
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January 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | 2 Comments
I bought a new Mac recently and was thinking of how I was going to get the new machine configured to work in the same way as the old one.
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November 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | No Comments
Having been a Windows, Linux and Mac OS X user, amongst others, I prefer Mac OS X. Let’s take a brief look at what each OS offers you.
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November 12th, 2006 | Posted in Apple, Computers, Mac, OS X, Software | No Comments
If you think that some text on your display is hard to read then there just might be a way to improve it.
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November 4th, 2006 | Posted in OS X | No Comments
I have been a Mac user only since Christmas 2004 and I can say that it was a great decision to go out and buy one. The operating system Mac OS X is the Rolls Royce of operating systems. The power, stability and security of UNIX (FreeBSD) underneath the hood, with the beauty and elegance [...]
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December 4th, 2005 | Posted in Apple, Mac, OS X | No Comments
I’m not quite sure what to make of Mac OS X widgets. When Tiger first came out in April 2005 I must admit that I was looking forward to checking them out. However, to be honest, since then I haven’t really used them much, so I suppose I’m not really sold on them. However…
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December 3rd, 2005 | Posted in Apple, OS X | No Comments