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Mac Hibernate

Frank Kim — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:25:39 +0000

I tried to make the Mac hibernate based on this article, Make my Macbook Pro Hibernate. Unfortunately it did not work and I am wondering if it is because this article is older and maybe it does not work for Mac OS X Leopard.

In the end I have gotten used to not having hibernate on the Mac since start up and shutdown are so fast.

Microsoft Office 2008 update 12.1.0 will not install

Frank Kim — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:47:48 +0000

I tried many times to install the Microsoft Office 2008 update 12.1.0 but each time it would hang.

Finally I found this forum thread about the exact same problem, Msi Wind Forums • View topic – Microsoft Office 2008 update 12.1.0 will not install.

This is how to get the update to install.

Should have an option to edit……thing is it’s to late because your forced quit. Run the installer again and when the installer hangs move the installer window to one side…the error window noted above should be directly behind the installer and thats why you missed it in the first place…the installer has halted (and appears hung) as the error window is awaiting a response from you…..but you dont see it. All you have to do is click the edit button on the error window and then installer will continue…thats it. You can close the error window and the installer will continue.

Sun’s VirtualBox

Frank Kim — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:16:10 +0000

Macworld has a column, A look at Sun’s VirtualBox, with a video about installing and using VirtualBox on a Mac. I think it is exciting that a free open source solution like VirtualBox can be used to run Windows on top of Mac OS X (though in this video it was used for running OpenSolaris). One has to believe this is a big issue for Parallels and Fusion.

Maintaining your Mac

Frank Kim — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:08:45 +0000

Macworld has a series of articles that I found helpful on maintaining your mac.

Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up

Perhaps the most important component to test is RAM… Thankfully, it’s not difficult to do so, although a comprehensive test can take a while. Apple Hardware Test, included on the Mac OS X Install disc that comes with all recent Macs, has an Extended Testing option that tests your RAM.
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev Up Your Routines
Five Maintenance Myths

Myth #2: “You need to run the Unix maintenance scripts.”
You may have heard about a collection of magical Unix maintenance scripts that OS X is supposed to run automatically. The story goes that because these scripts are scheduled to run in the middle of the night, putting your Mac to sleep or shutting it down prevents them from running—so you need to do so manually…

An easy way to run the scripts manually is by using Mike Vande Ven Jr.’s free Maintidget 1.3, a Dashboard widget that shows you the last time each script was run and lets you manually run one or all with a single click. There are also innumerable tweaking utilities that provide similar functionality

Display Date in OS X Menu Bar

Frank Kim — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:58:56 +0000

On November 23rd I ordered my first Mac laptop since my Powerbook in grad school, a white Macbook. 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. So far I’ve been reasonably impressed but one thing I wanted is for the menu bar to display the full date. It always bothered me that you can’t do this on Windows w/o third party applications.Fortunately on Mac OS X there is somewhat of a hack to do this, How To: Display Date in OS X Menu Bar.The format I ended up choosing is:Thu Jan 10 7:07 PMwhich I think is a little cleaner than the one used in the aforementioned article.Update: As of March 19, 2008, this cute hack no longer seems to work. Seems like one of the Mac OS X updates changed the way the date is displayed in the OS X menu bar. Now my date looks like this:Wed 9:23 AM PDT