Doctor Who RPG Template
I have just downloaded this, but someone has created a Bento v3 template for the new Doctor Who RPG game…  See Doctor Who RPG Template | Database Templates For Bento | Bento Template Exchange, for the download link.
Category: Macintosh
Disaster Recovery for File Vault
This assumes that the hard drive is physically intact. Put the drive into a 2.5″ enclosure and hook it up to another Mac. First, attempt to open the Disk Image, by going to the new drive’s USERS folder, and double clicking on the File Vault users disk image (it should be named the same as […]
Start screen sharing remotely in Terminal
Assume you want to do some work on a remote Mac via 10.5's Screen Sharing, but you forgot to enable Screen Sharing before you left the remote Mac. Since the screen sharing system uses launchd to monitor its state, enabling and disabling is as simple as adding a file in the/Libary/Preferences folder. Of course, this […]
Why should I shoot my Stack? Isn’t that bad?
Just remember, if you find something on your system, and you don’t know what it is…. Â Don’t immediately panic, try to understand the situation first. I just read a startling account, of someone thinking that StackShot, was direct evidence of their Macintosh OS X system being rooted by some evil HACKER. Stackshot is a built-in […]
Fixing VLC freezes with Subtitling
It seems the version of X11 that ships with Snow Leopard causes some problems with VLC when it comes to videos with embedded subtitles. In my case, whenever I tried to open an MKV file that contained subtitles, VLC would get stuck while loading the video and never actually play it. If I tried to quit […]
How do I migrate my information to a new Macintosh?
First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]
Warning: SUID file …. has been modified and will not be repaired.
Question: I was using Disk Utility to do a “Verify Permission” and I got the following message: Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. It’s a known issue, and actually a bogus message. It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS […]
Don’t send Command-Tab, etc. in ARD and screen sharing – Mac OS X Hints
In Apple Remote Desktop 3.3, Apple changed the behavior of key commands during screen sharing. In this knowledge-base article, one of the listed “improvements” is this: When controlling a remote client, function keys and key combinations for actions such as Force Quit, Log Out, and the Application Switcher are now all sent to the remote […]