August 2007
5 posts
USB Legacy Support Enabled on Area51 →
I was unable to use my old HP USB keyboard on the Windows Vista boot menu, although I could use it to access the BIOS menu (F2) — good thing, too, because then I was able to set USB Legacy Support to “Auto,” from “Disabled.” This did the trick.
DevonTHINK Pro Office →
I’m working on a big project now that involves a large email archive. I took the plunge and bought DevonTHINK Pro Office, which has proven to be fantastic at managing a large amount of email. I’m going to use this in some other projects, and see how it works. Right now, it’s a nice complement to Mac Mail’s smart folder feature.
ShuttleX Dies: Massive RAM failure →
I just picked up Battlefeild 2142 and imaging how pleased I was when I found it would (possibly) run on my old breadbox, ShuttleX — a Pentium 4. Well, since I haven’t really booted it up in almost a month, maybe more, I had no idea that I had a major RAM failure and now I can’t boot into Ubuntu, Windows (installed on the HD) or even from Knoppix. Only the Knoppix 5.01 CD gave me...
ShuttleX is dead! RAM Errors →
Running Commands or Scripts on the Mac Every Day →
I used the following tip to run an rsync backup command on the Mac Mini file server:
If you wanted to be extra cautious, you could create a file called “daily.local” (without the quotes, but with the period), and add the command to that and place it in:
CODE/etc/periodic/daily/
You would need to make it executable, so would have to run the command
CODEchmod 555 daily.local