Can i install my Leopard OS onto my PC?
Yes. The current solution is to use a piece of software called simply “PC-EFI” that emulates a Mac firmware environment. There’s some instructions out there already for how to get this done.
Hello, I am looking for information regarding how to boot a iBook,G4, with linux on a USB flash drive…
You cannot boot a G4 iBook from a USB drive of any kind — only FireWire or internal drives.
On my iBook G4 14’ when I run openSUSE 10.3 I noticed (for some time now) the white led blinks when the hard drive is accessed. In os x 10.4.11 and previous builds the white led did not blink when the hard drive is accessed. Any ideas on remedying this issue?
It’s a Linux kernel build option. There’s some discussion of it on the Ubuntu forums and where to toggle the setting. You will have to build your own kernel to change this setting.
How many DNS servers does OS X lookup when i enter them into my System Pref’s??
You’d think it would either round-robin them or move on after failure, wouldn’t you? Yeah, no. If you get several from DHCP and the first one responds in any way or form it will use it, and it alone. If you manually add a server after the DHCP ones (Leopard) then it will prefer the manual one. I’ve never seen a server other than the first one used, ever. I’m sure if the first one fails the first time that it’s used that it’ll move on, but I’ve never witnessed it.
how to enable swat on leopard?
It’s not included in Leopard.
This is something that has bugged me since I got bought my MacBook last year. On the full size Mac keyboards there is an option key on both sides of the keyboard but on the books the right hand option key is replaced by the supremely superfluous enter key. This strikes me as daft. The fn key is used to shift between number pad or standard for all the other keys why not the enter key as well. Do you know of any way to make the enter key next to the right hand command key work (as it should) as an option key?
The reason for the Enter key is that it does send a different signal to the computer than the Return key and for certain programs (Terminal, Numbers/Excel, some others) there’s a real difference between their functions. However, it’s so rarely used for this distinct feature by the majority of people that it’s kind of odd to still have it around for everyone. A fast search in Google comes up with this gem (untested by me): KeyRemap4MacBook
Let me know if it works for you.
Consequently, owners of the 2008 MacBook Pro have the opposite complaint: Apple removed the Enter key and put an Option key there! So, if this fails to work, buy a new computer. 
How do I get my Mac to lock when i walk away with my blue tooth phone?
Use the application Proximity to detect when the device is missing and then tell it to run the following script:
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate
From “/sys/admin/blog”:http://www.sysadminblog.com/index.php?/archives/273-Auto-lock-your-Mac-when-you-walk-away.html
I want to navigate within an online Google spreadsheet using an iPhone. In order to search large spreadsheets, the control-F is used. Since iPhone does not have a “control” key, is it possible to enter the ascii decimal 6, or hex $06 to simulate the control F function?
Nope.
Hey guys, question for ya. I have a G4 Mac Mini that I hooked up to my TV to be used as a media server. It’s running OS X server with Front Row hacked onto it, and I also use it for a file server/Software Update server/Handbrake machine, etc. I know, I flog it like a rented mule. I’m always trying to improve my Unix chops; I’ve been trying to do as much remote administration as possible over ssh instead of VNC. Anywho, I ran into an issue using secure copy to move files from my laptop to the Mini. I can’t figure out how to move a file directly onto an external drive connected to the Mini. I can copy anything to the root drive, then move it later, but not to the external drive directly. Here’s my syntax that’s not working:
scp ~/Desktop/“FILENAME” username@servername.local:/Volumes/drivename/“FILENAME”
I get prompted for the password, then it returns an error, “scp: ambiguous target”. What am I missing? Also, what about copying FROM the remote machine to your machine? I can’t seem to get that one to work either.
You’re running into shell escape issues. You have to escape the space for the local shell so that it sends it to the local scp and then you have to escape it for the remote scp as well. So, use quotes locally and then escape the spaces for the remote system within those spaces. Try it this way:
scp "~/Desktop/FILENAME” "username@servername.local:/Volumes/drivename/FILE\ NAME"
Is there a way to change a keychain password from the command line?
For all the things that the security command does do with keychains, it doesn’t appear to let you do this. Sorry.
SubRosa Soft has recently released a program called Mac Lock Pick, which is allegedly for sale only to law enforcement types. Among the scary things it claims to be able to do is work to extract File Vault or encrypted disk image passwords.
I understand the myth of security concept, but this seems very Orwellian to me. I don’t use file vault as it once wiped out my itunes library, but I have come to rely upon encrypted disk images, with the perhaps false assumption that they were secure from everyone, including our friendly government. Is that wishful thinking now?
Whenever you see something like that it sometimes means that the people that implemented the security feature have done something wrong and left the password laying around somewhere as an unsalted hash that just needs a rainbow table to lookup, or something simple like that. I doubt Apple did that, though. It’s probably doing something like DMGBrute is doing and just doing a general password attack on it.
Since iPhone does not have a "control" key, is it possible to enter the ascii decimal 6, or hex $06 to simulate the control F function?
Yes, the iPhone has a control key. It is the "dot" that you see in symbols->shift. So dot-f should trigger a control F, (though I haven't tested this on the page you refer to).
So I go to the keyboard, I hit
.?123and then#+=and I see a period and a bullet. Hitting either enters those characters. Hitting other letters afterwards enters those letters. What exactly are you talking about?Post new comment