10.5.7 breaks VMWare & ATI cards?

VMware: Team Fusion: A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7: “May 13, 2009 A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, […]

Reconfiguring your language?

A quick and easy method to change the primary language under Mac OS X is to open a terminal window, and run is command… sudo “/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser” Select your language, close the language chooser and restart your system to invoke the changes.  There have been a few reports of the language settings being damaged […]

Snopes!!!!

I finally got annoyed enough at Snopes.com to find out why I can’t highlight anything on the site.  I use the site quite often to debunk emailed chain-letters from family and friends… But, I can’t reliably cut & paste from the site.  All I can do is Select All & Copy…  Which typically meant alot […]

What do you mean? I’m not an Administrator?

Apple has a technote out, regarding the fact that after performing an upgrade installation (the default type) of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, an administrator account may change to a standard one.  While I have not seen this, a co-worker has seen this once. This only affects Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). How to fix […]

What is OCSP?

5/7/09 9:09:34 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18764] starting 5/7/09 9:15:56 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18774] starting 5/7/09 9:31:07 AM /usr/sbin/ocspd[18820] starting From the Man pages, OCSPD is responsible for (security) Certificate Revocation List & Online Certificate Status Protocol responses. In other words, it handles the heavy lifting portion of the security management for Mac OS X 10.4+. OCSP is an internet protocol […]

Apple’s iMac Firmware Update 1.4 fixes ATI issues

Apple today released an iMac Firmware Update 1.4 to resolve some outstanding issues with certain models freezing and another issue with Bootcamp, Apple’s technology for allowing users to run Windows on Mac. According to Apple’s documentation, the update fixes intermittent system freeze issues for iMac computers with ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics and fixes wake-from-sleep […]

What is PubSub Agent?

Are you seeing dialogs from “PubSub Agent”, asking for access to the keychain, when you login? That’s perfectly normal. The PubSub Agent, is used by MobileMe / DotMac, to synchronize the computer’s bookmarks with MobileMe. It is safe to click “Always Allow” for the PubSub Agent. Technote TS 1770 – Mac OS X 10.5: About […]