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boot snow leopard in 64 bit

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:11:58 +0000

As mac os 10.6 (snow leopard) release last 28th august, all the mac lovers are busy to upgrade. i am already using it . Soon i will share my experience.

One of the main feature of this release is the 64bit kernel.Using the following command you can check if your hardware support 64 bit kernel.

$ ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi

Though your hardware is capable to run 64 bit kernel it don’t boot in 64 bit. In this post i will show you how to boot in 64:

1. press 6 and 4 at the boot time. (keep press the 6 and 4 key till you see the apple logo)

2. open terminal and give this command :

$ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot ‘Kernel Flags’ ‘arch=x86_64′

3. open terminal and give this command :

$ sudo nvram boot-args=”arch=x86_64″

All these way will work. First one will boot 64 bit for just this time. Next 2 are permanent solution.

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Download iPhone SDK using wget

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:17:20 +0000

If you are using slow connection like me and trying to download the apples iPhone SDK , then you already know how much tough it is , because of apple only allow to download this file after login. And non of the download manager can give you the resume facility. so after trying 2 days with different downloaders i tried wget and got sucess

Here i am discribing how to do it. First login to http://developer.apple.com/iphone (if you don’t have any account, just create one, it’s free). then use firefox extension to export (firebug+firecookie) cookie to cookie.txt . Then rest of the task simple. just copy download link from http://developer.apple.com/iphone and give the following command in the console.

$cd /path/to/cookie.txt

$ wget -ct 0 –load-cookies cookie.txt your_file_url

that’s all, now you can resume download without any problem. Here is the command i used to download to download it.

$ wget -ct 0 –server-response –load-cookies cookies.txt http://developer.apple.com/iphone/download.action?path=/iphone/iphone_sdk_3.0__final/iphone_sdk_3.0__leopard__9m2736__final.dmg

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Resolve problems with Office 2008 update installation

oshim — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:31:27 +0000

“You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.x on this volume. The version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.” Even a clean reinstall from the source Office disk did not fix this issue. After several back-and-forths with Microsoft, the following solution worked.

1. Run the Remove Office app, which is located in /Applications » Microsoft Office 2008 » Additional Tools.
2. Delete the following files and folders:
* /Users/(me)/Library/Preferences/(all files that start com.microsoft)
* /Users/(me)/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
* /Users/(me)/Library/Application Support/Microsoft
* /Users/(me)/Microsoft User Data
* /Users/(me)/Documents/Microsoft User Data
* /Users/(me)/Documents/Office Projects
* /Library/Receipts/(all files that begin with Office 2008)
3. Reinstall from the Office source disk and update.

A word of caution: back up your personalized settings before erasing the Office files. If you use Entourage for your email, back up your Entourage data in your user’s Documents » Microsoft User Data » Office 2008 Identities » Main Identity folder by copying it to the desktop. If you have created templates, back those up by copying them to the desktop from your user’s Library » Application Support » Microsoft » Office » User Templates folder.

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Restore from unsupported Time Machine backups

oshim — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:02:04 +0000

There are several hints here on how to get Time Machine to backup to an unsupported AFP share, but I found no mention of how to restore from such an unsupported share. After spending some time on Gooogle, I found this page.

The essence of the solution is that once the installer has booted from the DVD, one has to go to the Terminal and mount the AFP share manually:

$ mkdir /Volumes/TimeMachine
$ mount -t afp afp://user:password@afpserver.local/ShareName /Volumes/TimeMachine

Quit Terminal, then enter the Time Machine Restore utility. The unsupported backup volume should then show up.

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find out the reason why macbook is not working

we4tech — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:39:09 +0000

one of my friends who has been using macbook for last 1 year, he was so pleased that helped apple to get free market promotion from him.

however macbook didn’t treat that way as he was treating her. suddenly he discovered his macbook with uncertain problem. after trying this and that he hadn’t found any way out.

so one fine day when we achieved our victory (16th december) he got victory for himself too.
it was his RAM baby!, one of the ram was damaged.

after 2 days struggling finally he got the problem, though he tried with local apple dealers but none could help on this issue.

later he discovered apple has very user friendly simple way out to diagnosis your mac system.

hold “D” key while you booting your macbook, you should see a self checking panel. where you would find “test” button, just go and click to see what went wrong with your macbook.

after few seconds to minutes passed you would find some error code, search it on apple support.

thats all, thats how he could fix his problem i guess if you face the same kinda problem now you know how simple it is.

btw, actually he had RAM problem which was occurred because of stupid hard reset while his computer was busy with 100% processor consumption.

still not getting your reason? hold apple + V while you booting your macbook to get in verbose mode.

best wishes,

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Re-enable DFU mode in Mac OS X 10.5.6

oshim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:39:28 +0000

this post will help them who are using hacked iPhone and mac os x 10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08). if you want to jailbreak or upgrade the firmware of your iPhone using mac os v10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08) then you have to follow these steps otherwise your new mac os will not support to upgrade your hacked iPhone. it’s unclear if apple did this intentionally or if it’s a bug in the kernel.

you are required to be logged in as an administrator and you must provide the admin password.

checks if you are at mac os x 10.5.6 or better (if not will quit)
quits all running apps (with save option)
backup the original files (AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.6) in a new folder on your Desktop
asks for your admin password
copy AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.5 into the desired location on your mac
set owner:group and permissions
rebuild the kextcache
reboot your mac

download the automator application from here.

http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5.zip

unzip the archive
place the “Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5″ folder on your Desktop (This is important)
open the folder and start the application “Fix_DFU_10_5_6″
you will see the readme box (click “OK”)
provide your admin password

let the Application do it’s job

at the end the Finder will open another dialog box telling you that the cache is being rebuild, click “OK” or just leave the box alone. after a couple of seconds your mac will reboot automatically – done, DFU is enabled again and your mac os x is ready to jailbreak your hacked iPhone.

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Apple sells one million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend

lavluda — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:05:07 +0000

On Sunday, Apple sold its one millionth iPhone 3G, the company announced today. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

WOW, i wish i will also get one very soon.

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