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Random freezing from Snow Leopard? Insert-Hang-Detected?

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Feb 152011

Is your Macintosh hanging up ocassionally with the Beach Ball of Doom? Check your console.log…. And see if you see this:

Sep 11 18:03:00 Perseus kernel[0]: Sep 11 18:03:01: --- last message repeated 1 time --- Sep 11 18:03:01 Perseus Safari254: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:21.280277, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 157639, Did shrink: NO Sep 11 18:06:57 Perseus kernel[0]: Sep 11 18:07:22: --- last message repeated 3 times --- Sep 11 18:07:22 Perseus Safari254: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:46.772571, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 1150, Did shrink: NO Sep 11 18:07:38 Perseus su280: maymay to admin on /dev/ttys000

If you see the INSERT-HANG-DETECTED messages, then I may have a solution…

Run a Repair permissions
Shut system down.
on power-up, click and hold down option-command-R-P after you hear the 1st beep. Keep holding it through two beeps then release.

Mac OS X installed on Intel’s Sandy Bridge

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Jan 062011

Good news, everybody—you don’t have to wait for Apple to approve Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors before you can run Mac OS X on the new CPUs. Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and chipsets are barely out of the gate, but that hasn’t stopped some users from installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the new Sandy Bridge LGA Socket-1155.

MacMan and tonymacx86 of the tonymac86x blog have not only installed Mac OS X on the new chipset, but they’ve also uploaded instructions so you can hackintosh away.

The process involves using a “patched non-standard Darwin kernel” to boot the system, and the tonymac86x blog warns that this is not a long-term solution. In other words, it’s not a quick or painless hack. However, for early adopters who want to try it out, the blog has opened a special forum section specifically for Sandy Bridge.

Read More about this here… Mac OS X installed on Intel’s Sandy Bridge

Apple Digital Camera RAW update v3.5

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Dec 172010

Apple today released another Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update. Version 3.5 provides RAW format compatibility for imaging applications like Aperture and iPhoto for these new cameras:

Canon PowerShot G12
Leica D-Lux 5
Leica V-Lux 2
Nikon D7000
Nikon COOLPIX P7000
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2

These cameras have been added to the list of digital camera RAW files supported by Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and are in addition to those currently listed on Apple’s Support website. You can view the list of supported cameras here.

Free Mac anti-virus – Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac

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Nov 022010

Sophos is now offering free copies of it’s anti-virus software, to Macintosh users…

Technical Specifications are as follows:

Mac with Intel or PowerPC processor
256 MB of memory
150 MB of available disk space
Mac with OSX 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Supports All Apple Mac hardware including iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air

The set-up process is simple:

Visit the website cited above.
Click on the download button.
Accept the terms of the EULA license during the installation.

After that is complete, you can use the tool for as long as you like.

According to Sophos, this is the same version as the Enterprise edition, just with a different “home” license.

Take a look here…

Steam Updates….

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Oct 052010

A New Steam update has hit the streets, included in it is full support for the Apple Snow Leopard Graphics update… So, hopefully a nice burst in video speed…

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. The specific changes include:

Steam

Steam will now use the language selected in the retail installer instead of the current UI language when installing from disc
Fixed a Steam overlay crash on OSX
Removed redundant names and improved displaying a large number of tabs in tabbed chat windows
Fixed web browser layout
Fixed tab chat dropdown menu flashing for new message in hidden chat page
Mac Overlay crashes fixed when trying to render to a screen with no game objects being drawn
Mac Retail install support for install in non-english languages
Mac support for detecting 10.6.4 with the Apple Snow Leopard Graphics Update (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286) installed

Apple Releases Fifth Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 | World of Apple

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Sep 162010

Earlier this week Apple released to developers the fifth build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just a couple of weeks after the previous release of Mac OS X 10.6.5.

The current version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard was released in mid-June after just under two months of developer testing.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H542 weighs in at 571MB for the delta update and contains six focus areas and no known issues. World of Apple sources state that Apple has not included a list of fixes with the latest build, yetMac Rumors has published a list.

Changes in build, according to Mac Rumors

improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers
resolve a delay between print jobs
address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an Airport Extreme
resolve an issue when dragging contacts from Address Book to iCal
address an issue where dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide
add SSL support for uploading files to iDisk
resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary
improve performance of MainStage on certain Mac systems
resolve spacing issues with OpenType fonts
improve reliability with some Bluetooth braille displays
resolve a VoiceOver issue when browsing some web sites with Safari 5
address stability and performance of graphics applications and game

Known Issues

None

Focus Areas

3D Graphics
iCal
Mail
QuickTime
Time Machine
USB Devices

Finder reporting -10004? What’s that?

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Sep 132010

Snow Leopard introduced significant changes in user permissions. That error is:

-10004 A privilege violation occurred.

Now in layman’s terms, what does that mean?

It simply means that whatever user is attempting to write to the directory doesn’t have permission to do so. In otherwords, let’s say that the computer has two users:

Parents Account
Kids Account

And the Parent’s install “Wonderful Kids Game ABCDEF”. When the kids login, and attempt to run “Wonderful Kids Game ABCDEF”, and it works for a few minutes, but then dies with a -10004 error…

Why? The game was designed to save to a folder that the kids can’t write to. That could be the Game’s folder in the Applications folder, or a different folder, but the Kids account doesn’t have access privileges to write to that folder.

Now often, this doesn’t happen, but this scenario is what the -10004 error is designed to report.

It likely means that you’re trying to write to a directory that isn’t writable (after your upgrade) from the IndigoServer process. You’re going to have to look carefully through any directories you write to and make sure that they are writable by the same user that launches the IndigoServer process.

via Google Reader (246).

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 – World of Apple

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Aug 202010

According to World of Apple, Apple has released to developers the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just five days after the first release of Mac OS X 10.6.5.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 558MB for the delta update and contains six focus areas, no known issues and no listed fixes.

Known Issues

None

Focus Areas

3D Graphics
AFP
Mail
Printing
QuickTime
X11

Of note, Apple has indicated that the Snow Leopard graphics update that was released several days is incorporated into 10H529 (& later builds). No mention was made of 10H525.

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