Ars Technica’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks…  He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews… The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company then known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big […]
Just remember, if you find something on your system, and you don’t know what it is…. Â Don’t immediately panic, try to understand the situation first. I just read a startling account, of someone thinking that StackShot, was direct evidence of their Macintosh OS X system being rooted by some evil HACKER. Stackshot is a built-in […]
First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]
Question: I was using Disk Utility to do a “Verify Permission” and I got the following message: Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired. It’s a known issue, and actually a bogus message. It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS […]
In Apple Remote Desktop 3.3, Apple changed the behavior of key commands during screen sharing. In this knowledge-base article, one of the listed “improvements” is this: When controlling a remote client, function keys and key combinations for actions such as Force Quit, Log Out, and the Application Switcher are now all sent to the remote […]
Sorry, couldn’t resist the bad joke…. But what is “EMUL.Kext”?  It’s in the extensions directory, and I can’t place it… Well, the only references I can find to this is EMUL.Kext, appears to be part of the EarthMate Userland Library.  The EarthMate User Library provides access to the usb device via libusb and POSIX threads. Target […]
Here’s how to clear the web browser cache, on the majority of the web browsers… Internet Explorer 8 From the Safety menu in the upper right, click Delete Browsing History… . Check Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History, and then click Delete. Internet Explorer 7 From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Delete […]