Category: Apples

Enabling Remote Desktop Access on a Mac, which is only accessible by SSH:

http://technotes.twosmallcoins.com/?p=279

Here are instructions, on how to install Lion over Leopard (which is commonly not possible). I prefer the Techie-way. :-)

http://www.macworld.com/article/161087/2011/07/install_lion_over_leopard.html

Mac OS X Java update on Snow Leopard and OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 doesn’t seem to get along good together. OOo is missing the Java JRE to continue working like it should. The instructions found on this site are describing a work around:

1. Make sure that OpenOffice.org is closed
2. Go to ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/jl162/ and download libjvmfwk.dylib.3 and sunjavaplugin.dylib
3. again make sure that OpenOffice.org is closed!!!
4. Go to the Application Folder
5. Make rightclick (two finger click, or CTRL + Click) on the Programm “OpenOffice.org” and select “Show Package Content” below “Open”
6. A new Finder window with a folder called “Contents” open, click on “Contents”
7. Then click on “basis-link”, after on “ure-link” and finaly on “lib”
8. Now you can move the two downloadet files libjvmfwk.dylib.3 and sunjavaplugin.dylib in to the “lib” folder. Your Mac will ask you, if you realy want to overwrithe, confirm it, and your Job is done.

Thank you very much Raphael for your help.

InsomniaX lets your MacBook not fall asleep (in standby mode) when you close the lid. As addition, you will get a ‘button’ to let your MacBook go to hibernate.

Get it here.

Das aktuelle MacBook im Alu Gehäuse hat die Memory DIMMs gut versteckt. Ebenso gibt es kaum akkurate Anleitungen im Netz, wie man zum Memory gelangt. Hier diejenige, die mir half.

MacBooks (including the MacBook Pro) have no option, if you want to use ‘standby mode’ or ‘hibernation mode’ if you close the lid or activate the ‘sleep’ mode in the Apple menu. It usually uses the standby mode, keeping the memory content active in memory and still consumes battery. I realized, that the contents of the memory though will be written to the hard disk. On a MBP I started to exit the battery after the MBP went to sleep. The system was then in the hibernation mode, known from Windows Laptops or Linux Laptops. My new MB (the small one) has the battery fixly built-in, the battery cannot be exited that fast. So I was looking for a new solution.

I’ve found two quite nice solutions for that, on software side. Since the Intel MB/P are using usual ACPI schemes, this should be no problem at all.

Sven Andersson got a nice small utility which puts the MB/P to hibernate upon your request. This utility can be found here.

Second one I found here:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1

This sets the MB/P to hibernate, if you close the lid. You can ‘automate’ this a bit, if you define aliases for these actions, since this have to be set after every reboot. Put those aliases in a bashrc or bash_profile file and source the file after you open the Terminal:

alias hibernateon='sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1'
alias hibernateoff='sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0'

The silkscreen of the Mac keyboard layout is missing most of the special symbols, which are accessible by Alt button. Here is a link to a comprehensive list of those symbols and short cuts.

Wilber – the famous mascot of Gimp – doesn’t like older apples. They have to be very fresh.

Using standard Mac OS-X installations have an older X11 server installed. Version 2.4.7 of Gimp requires X11 version >= 2.2 installed. So if you want to run Gimp successfully, you have to upgrade your X11 server manually via the XQuartz project.

Josh documented, that ‘as RTF format’ declarated addressbook contacts in MS Outlook receiving all attachments in a stream file called winmail.dat. First thing would be to inform the sender to change the address book entry. But Josh also has a plugin, which can extract attachments out of this winmail.dat file.