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Are you tired of the standard background for the login window? Well, if you are running Tiger or Leopard, you can easily change this picture to anything you wish. This is handy for schools or organizations who want a static background showing off their spiffy logo.
For Leopard Users
To change the background, [...]
Changing the login window background
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: Login Window·Spiffy Logo·Static Background·System Library·Tiger·Window Background
Remote Mac debugging
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
So if you have a Mac say at your friends home, is there an easy way to diagnose it. I’ve tried this a bunch with Windows machines, but never quite got all the connections right. So maybe Apple works better. On a single network this is great, you can Share Screen with other Mac’s and [...]
Tags: Desktops·Destops·Firewall·Guts·Mac·Mac OS X·Network Address Translation·Os X·Professional Tool·Remote Debugging·Remotedesktop·Scripts·Ssh·System Library·Traffic·Udp Port·Windows Machines
Time Capsule is “preparing” forever, diagnostics and also hangs
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Time Capsule
I have two different problems now. First, the Time Capsule at work is preparing forever. No one really has a resolution to this. I’ve run it for 24 hours and it never stops preparing. I really don’t want to lose my backups, but not sure what to do. Maybe take it home over the weekend [...]
Tags: Content Size·Crash·Disk Image·Disk Recovery·Filesystem·Folklore·Hard Disk·Image Disk·Image Volumes·Livy·Macintosh·Macintosh Hd·Match·Search Box·System Library·Time Capsule·Typing·Whole Disk