Every once in a while, not a whole lot, but more than mac finantics are willing to admit: My mac goes wack, and for whatever reason my only hope is to either log out, or force the machine down (hold down power button for 10 seconds). Well, as I enjoy a long uptime just as [...]

I just got a brand new macbook. The White unibody kind. It’s actually for my wife. Here’s a screen shot of the brand new battery to use as a reference point. Notice the cycle count and full charge capacity.

Wireless connection problem. Extremely slow wireless connectivity at home and work. Called apple care, they had me delete files: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.network.identification.plist, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist And restart. You’ll have to re-add the wireless network settings you once had, but this should fix the problem.

I wanted to use a network share for my time machine backup. I setup a samba share, and thought I would be good to go until I got a message “the backup disk image … could not be created (error 45)”. So I went to google and did some research. The first site said to [...]

Want to copy *everything* from one drive to another, or make a complete backup of your stuff. Well, forget about using the age old drag and drop method, one might think using the cp would be sufficient, but again: no. The ultimate solution is robocopy. Robocopy is a simple tool you can download from microsoft. [...]