To enable Time Machine to use your network attached share type this in Terminal: ?View Code BASH1 defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Now you can select your network share in the Time Machine preferences:
Tag Archive: leopard
Mar
10
2010
Oct
06
2008
Fixing iPod (Touch) sync on error “cannot enable syncing – Override/Ok”
Today i plugged my iPod Touch into my USB port and got an akward error saying iTunes cannot sync my iPod because syncing is disabled and asked me to enabled it. I clicked yes and got a second dialog saying “Cannot enable syncing” and i could click “Override” or “OK”. The odd thing: both choices …
Mar
11
2008
Mac OS X Leopard: sylogd eating cpu power
today i noticed after a reboot (i do that very rarely), that my iStats Menu CPU monitor shows me heavy CPU load. I fired up Activity Monitor and found that syslogd is using 90% – 100% cpu power – bad syslogd! I did some research on the net and found quiete some hints relating Time …
Mar
03
2008
Fixing non-working iSync after updating to Leopard 10.5.2
After updating Leopard to version 10.5.2 using Software Update, iSync stopped working – it flashed in the dock, but never opened Luckily i found this dirty but awful simple trick to get it back to working: open Applications folder drag iSync app to your desktop open iSync from desktop -> it works! drag iSync from …
Jan
28
2008
Pimp your Safari 3.0 (Leopard)
I recently switched back from firefox to safari as my default browser, mainly because firefox is too big, slow and hangs from time which anoyed me more and more. The switch became possible, because i found some extensions to safari, which counterparts i used on firefox excessively:
Oct
29
2007
Compile Python 2.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Recently i upgraded my OS to Leopard and had to recompile python 2.4.4 for my Zope 3 buildout setup (i need a clean python for that). The problem was, that python 2.4.4 won’t build on leopard, Jodok Batlogg from Lovely Systems had the same problem and instantly found the solution. As he hasn’t posted it …