HFS+ Disable Journaling

There may come a time when you need to mount an HFS+ drive to a Linux machine with Read/Write access, to do this, Journaling needs to be disabled. Here are the steps to disabling Journaling. Plug the drive you wish to disable Journaling on into a Mac running OSX 10.6.8 or later. Open a Terminal [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 10:37 am and is filed under Hardware Troubleshooting, Macintosh OS, Macintosh Software, Software.

Magsafe charger firmware

The new 90 degree magsafe chargers do not work on some of the older macbook and macbook pro machines without a firmware update. However, the firmware update requires 10.5 or higher. So it will NOT work for Tiger 10.4. The firmware can be downloaded from the Apple site here for both Macbooks and Macbook Pros. [...]

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 29th, 2010 at 4:40 pm and is filed under Macintosh OS, Public.

Windows 7 bootcamp install

Activating / entering Windows 7 product key for a Mac bootcamp install.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 10:30 am and is filed under Macintosh OS, Public.

My Mac is running slow

Ccommon troubleshooting steps to take if your Macintosh computer is slow to boot or to respond.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 12:53 pm and is filed under Macintosh OS, Pending export.

Terminal and ifconfig with OS X

Using terminal to troubleshoot-resolve connection issues on Mac OS X.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 3:06 pm and is filed under Macintosh OS, Public.