Archive for January, 2009

January 8, 2009

After running Security Update 2008-008 Mac boots to blue screen

this security update released by Apple (available through Software Update) caused a client’s machine to boot to blue screen upon restart.  there were several threads on line about this, most of which pointed to a complete system reinstall.  I found a work around:
 
First I ran the sbin/fsck/ -y command in single user mode to check/repair [...]

January 7, 2009

twitters of the day for 2009-01-07

MacWorld is boring to me this year, as usual. I don’t get excited until after I use something for a while and it does what I want it to do. #
the most annoying part about really getting to know computers is knowing how long it is to get the really cool stuff done #
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