Posts belonging to Category Mac OS X
Posted by codethought on January 24, 2010
How To: Apple Boot Camp 64-bit for Windows 7 on “unsupported” Macs
Do you own a Macbook Air or other modern Apple and want to install and use Windows 7 ala Boot Camp? If so, you may have encountered the dreaded “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model” error dialog when trying to run [...]
Categories: Hardware, Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows |
Tags: 2007 mac, os x, windows 7 | 
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Posted by codethought on December 21, 2009
For some reason the ROM Images for the Android Dev Phone 1 have the links missing from the main ADP-1 download site. When you go to http://developer.htc.com/adp.html You’re greeted with a table of ROM images and file names but the links have been removed:
(You can click on the image to see the full-size [...]
Categories: Android, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: Android, android dev phone, htc | No Comments »
Posted by codethought on November 29, 2009
In an amazing moment of WTF I discovered this morning that after installing Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) that the only version of Java running on it was 1.6. Now as an end-user, people probably won’t care. And I can kind of understand why Apple did it, given that Sun has [...]
Categories: J2EE, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: installing-java-1-5-on-snow-leopard, Java, os x, snow leopard | No Comments »
Posted by codethought on November 21, 2009
Along with so many others, I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Overall the upgrade went without a hitch. However, I noticed that my Subversion repository was no longer available from Subclipse or via the Web Browser. Not good.
So I did some digging around and upon finding this article from Patrick Rice http://patrick-rice.net/daybook/2009/09/20/subversion-snow-leopard-etc/ I [...]
Categories: Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems |
Tags: os x, snow leopard, subversion, svn | 1 Comment »
Posted by codethought on April 19, 2009
The bug allows a guest operating system (that’s the OS running inside the virtual machine) to execute code on the host operating system (the OS running the actual virtualization program). Kostya created a short video that shows just how this works. In the video, a Windows XP guest operating system launches the Calculator application in [...]
Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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Posted by davidjr on January 17, 2009
The (in)famous free Mac software bundle is finally out.
For those of you who want the freebies but do not want to do the heist (like me):
1. Be sure you’re logged into
http://www.macheist.com/
2. Go to
http://mainframe.macheist.com/
3. Copy/Paste each of these URLs into the box and click on the button after each one: *You’ll have to right click -> [...]
Categories: General, Mac OS X |
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Posted by codethought on December 27, 2008
Mozilla, The best browser experience on the Mac, actually gets better thanks to Mindfield.
Firefox 3 & 3.0.5 optimized builds for G4 / G5 / Intel: ”
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The fifth Firefox 3 security / maintenance release is now available and now has optimized builds available for G5 and Intel macs.
Check out the official Mozilla Firefox web site to [...]
Categories: Mac OS X |
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Posted by codethought on July 22, 2008
While I was playing with Rails 2.1 I decided to try the SQLite3 support that comes built into OS X instead of using MySQL. Upon trying to run a migrate command via rake I was created with:
rake aborted!
no such file to load — sqlite3/database
After some digging around I found out that (for at least [...]
Categories: Mac OS X, Programming, Rails, Ruby |
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Posted by codethought on April 29, 2008
This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java.
For more details on this update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403
Please note what the aforementioned article says:
This release is only [...]
Categories: J2EE, Java, Mac OS X |
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Posted by codethought on April 28, 2008
Has this ever happened to you?
Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP |
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