From the category archives:

OSX

Hackintosh – Set Power Management Mode

March 28, 2010

Use the pmset command to manipulate power management settings on a hackintosh
pmset -g displays the current settings

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Show hidden files in OSX

February 2, 2010

Here’s a quick tip. If you find yourself needing to access hidden files on your Macintosh, run this from the terminal. Please note that the inverse of the first command will restore your default settings.

Display Hidden Files
# defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
# KillAll Finder

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Troubleshooting Buffalo WLI-UC-GN on OSX

January 31, 2010

These are some notes from trouble-shooting the Buffalo Wifi  WLI-UC-GN USB dongle on OS X.
I’m using an older Linksys BEFW1154 802.11 B wireless router as my test access point. I wasted a day trouble-shooting my airport because I plugged the cable modem into a LAN port rather than the WAN port. When I scanned for [...]

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Grub Configuration for laptop + Unix Reminders

December 17, 2009

I’m often switching between Windows, OS X and Linux (flavor of Unix). Windows and OS X use a graphical user interface (GUI) for just about everything, but Linux often requires me to use terminal commands. These are some cheat codes to help me remember my Unix.
Grub menu.lst file
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title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic [...]

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