http://www.datareign.co.uk/ 2010-07-13T20:37:48+01:00 http://www.datareign.co.uk/ http://www.datareign.co.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-11T11:48:59+01:00 harvey http://www.datareign.co.uk/doku.php?id=edup_wireless_lan_pcmcia_adapter&rev=1278845339&do=diff The EDUP PCMCIA WiFi card is commonly sold on eBay for an extremely attractive price that makes it ideal for resurrecting old hardware. Unfortunately, the software supplied with it (if any) does not appear to function. The card itself seems to come in more than one flavour. The commonest is Broadcom based, but there are, apparently, other chip sets in use. The one we acquired was a Broadcom version and what follows is predicated on that. text/html 2010-06-27T11:34:47+01:00 harvey http://www.datareign.co.uk/doku.php?id=apple_os-x_tips&rev=1277634887&do=diff Here are some things we've found useful in real life running. Simply hold down COMMAND-V from when the chime sounds until the log starts to appear. Default application to open a particular file Select the file in a Finder window, Ctrl-Click to get the pop-up menu, click on the arrow next to 'Open With:' to show the dialogue, select the application to use from the selection box (you can use the 'other' item right at the bottom to hunt for an application that isn't on the menu). text/html 2010-06-27T11:32:16+01:00 harvey http://www.datareign.co.uk/doku.php?id=apple_os-x_web_directory&rev=1277634736&do=diff Pages that we've found usefull in the past... * Open Source Downloads at Apple * What Happens at system startup * Format large Fat32 volumes in Panther * Booting Mac OS X * Disable Aqua at boot time * And another method of disabling Aqua at boot time text/html 2010-06-02T19:06:08+01:00 harvey http://www.datareign.co.uk/doku.php?id=apple_os-x_processes&rev=1275501968&do=diff A brief overview of some of the processes you may expect to find in the Activity Monitor Process List. We only discuss background processes here. All your foreground running applications (Mail, Safari, etc.) will also appear in the list. In the Stopable? column, the following may appear...