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Enable Time Machine Backup to network disc

Wolfgang — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:55 +0000

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:

Fixing iPod (Touch) sync on error “cannot enable syncing – Override/Ok”

Wolfgang — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:39:37 +0000

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 …

Mac OS X Leopard: sylogd eating cpu power

Wolfgang — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:41:55 +0000

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 …

Fixing non-working iSync after updating to Leopard 10.5.2

Wolfgang — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:26:05 +0000

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 …

Pimp your Safari 3.0 (Leopard)

Wolfgang — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:45:37 +0000

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: 1.) the most important tool on firefox: Firebug, …

Compile Python 2.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Wolfgang — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:41:31 +0000

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 …