Entries Tagged With 'All Things Mac'

Two problems with my iPod Nano in rapid succession worries me that my nano may be on it's way out. A day after the last problem I had, the nano's line out (via the dock) stopped working. After a hard reset it came back and seems to be working.

I have a first generation 4GB Nano and it stopped working today. It played music fine but when ever I plugged it into my Mac it would say that the iPod is corrupt and that I need to restore the software. When I try to restore the software through iTunes 7, it churns on it for awhile and then says that it can't restore the software.

If you don't have a real mac keyboard for your OS X installation you will probably notice that certain keys on a PC keyboard don't function as you would expect. The big three that I noticed are Home/End and Delete.

I have found keyboard shortcuts that mimic these features. I suspect this is an implementation different between PC's and Mac's (like secondary mouse button begin ctrl-click), but I honestly do not know.

Home -> Command-[left arrow]
End -> Command-[right arrow]
Delete -> Command-Backspace *This is only for some apps, others work fine.

So having an iPod is cool and having a ride is cool. Now it is supremely cool if they work well together. My stipulations here are:

1. Seemless audio integration with the radio. I don't care if the controls on the deck control the iPod
2. The iPod must use the line out from the iPod dock adapter
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I just learned something new about Tiger, and it is really cool. In any cocoa application, when hovering over a word you can press ctrl-cmd-d and it will pop up a definition for you. Definitely cool

As soon as the first copy of Mac OS X was leaked to the public I decided to give it a try. I was lucky because my own hardware specs are very similar to the Dev machines that apple leased out with the exception of SSE3. Shortly after release the hacker Maxxuss hacked the release to let SSE2 only machines run rosetta. That version of OS X for intel, 10.4.1, ran very smoothly and was quiet stable with very few exceptions. I could run office programs and photoshop without difficulty. What really bothered me was lack of NVidia drivers, lack of dual monitor support and not be able to sleep my computer.

I ran 10.4.1 almost exclusively, only rebooting to windows for dvd shrink. More recently a new release was leaked 8f1111 (there was a fw before it that I ignored), which was rumored to have better ATI drivers (doesn't help me), dual support and other great features. I had to replace my hard drive anyways, so I decided to try the latest leak and see if I could get more stuff working. These are my experiences documented here to hopefully help other 0sx86 users out.

I have two Mac OS X computers here with my HP LaserJet 1100 printer networked via a Windows Xp machine. The Mac's don't ship with a laserjet 1100 driver so you have to go out and download the foomatic/hpjis drivers. These work but they are crap! The result looks like a bad photocopy with everything bolded. After searching awhile, I decided to try some of the other drivers for models that I knew to be close to mine. So far HP LaserJet 6 series - GimpPrint v5.0.0-beta works the best.

If you find a better driver or a different way to fix this problem by all means let me know.