Mac OS X 10.6.5 out. Â The releases notes mention: General fixes and improvements improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture address stability and performance of graphics applications and games resolve a delay between print jobs address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an […]
The system version is on the Installer disc, at: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist You can get the specific information with this command: defaults read /path/to/mount/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductBuildVersion While the above describes how to do it on media, you can also test your local hard drive. Â See below: [nerv:/system/library/CoreServices] benjamin% defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion { ProductBuildVersion = 10F569; ProductCopyright = “1983-2010 […]
Evidently, some versions of the Vise Installer don’t quite work properly under Mac OS X… Here’s why… Â The symptom is that your computer slows down or stops responding… Â The Installer splash screen may display, but the Vise Installer typically stops at the “Gathering Details” screen. Why? Â You have a “network volume” mounted, it could be […]
Earlier this week Apple released to developers the fifth build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just a couple of weeks after the previous release of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The current version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard was released in mid-June after just under two months of developer testing. Mac OS X 10.6.5 […]
Well, Mac OS X has turned 10… Let’s take a look back at my list of best features that Mac OS X has introduced… Time Machine – Quite simply, this has brought backups to virtually everyone that wants it. While Retrospect, and other applications have their followers, Apple introduced a simple system that just by […]
For example: 9/4/10 1:48:31 PM KernelEventAgent[72] tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_LOWDISK, VQ_VERYLOWDISK (516) This indicates that Mac OS X has detected a drive (hard drive, RAM drive, Zip Drive, etc), that is very low or out of disk space. Â If this is your boot drive, you will receive a POP up warning message that the […]
According to World of Apple, Apple has released to developers the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just five days after the first release of Mac OS X 10.6.5. Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 558MB for the delta update and contains six focus areas, no known issues […]
When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the same machine. While we met our goal of making sure all of our customers had an acceptable gaming experience at launch, we have spent a large chunk of effort […]