How to find out what display is connected to your Mac…

How can you find out what display is connected to your macintosh?  Well, on the desktop’s you can examine the monitor, probably…  But what about your laptop? Open a terminal window, and type this in: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed “/[^<]*</s///” | xxd -p -r | strings -6 For example: [nerv:~] benjamin% ioreg […]

Birthday Reminders on the Birthday Calendar?

One issue that has plagued the Address Book & iCal combination, is that you are offered the option to automatically add birthday reminders to your calendar….  That’s fantastic, and will help me prevent the possibility of missing a friends/relatives birthday. But then, how did I forget Aunt Flo’s birthday, last week?  Click.  Why doesn’t the […]

Apple indicates iTunes LP charges are fiction.

Brian McKinney, who runs Chicago’s Chocolate Lab Records, claimed at the weekend that iTunes charges a $10,000 production fee for iTunes LP, a new digital format that pairs additional content such as lyrics and videos with album downloads. In a follow up email, Mckinney adds, “I should note that it is currently possible to design an […]

Office:Mac 2004 support has been extended

In my best Gomer impersonation: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise… Microsoft has officially extended supporting Office:Mac 2004 to January 10th, 2012.  They are stating that this will now offer a seamless transition between 2004 and Office:Mac TBD(2010 presumably). For users who rely on the VBA support that is found in Office 2004, this will allow a seamless […]

Indigo 4.1.1 Released

4.1.1 is now available for download. In addition to the major 4.0 improvements and 4.1 features, this update includes: Added remote link management capability for INSTEON EZSwitch30 module. Fixed bug that caused benign “unknown command bytes” error to be logged. Fixed bug that caused “Report error on receiving corrupt commands” preference to be ignored with […]

SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid Arguments? I’m not arguing here…

Have you seen these messages in your console log? 10/5/09 9:04:37 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, requestedTransferCount 0, transfer direction is 0 10/5/09 9:04:38 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, requestedTransferCount = 0, transfer direction is 0 10/5/09 9:04:39 PM kernel SCSITaskUserClient – Invalid arguments: scatterGatherEntries = 1, […]

Why is a Racoon nibbling on my Macintosh?

I think I need to start to put some Racoon feeders out, because I keep hearing some odd noises…  Coming from the console…. 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKE Packet: receive success. (Responder, Aggressive-Mode message 1). 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Aggressive-Mode message 2). 10/8/09 6:48:56 PM racoon[240] IKEv1 Phase1 AUTH: success. […]