Leon

Hi, My little Dell D430 running OSX Lion 10.7.5 is limited to 2gb of memory - hence why i keep a constant eye on what i spend resources on. So, i decided to take all 3 services out for a spin and have a look at their memory usage. All 3 clients is setup with the same amount of files - synced and idle - further more - i rebooted the machine after it had finished sync and let it run idle for and hour or two. Memory stats: Skydrive: 84,4mb gDrive: 96,6mb Dropbox: 53,5mb What is worth to notice is that Dropbox and gDrive remained stable - while skydrive was slowing leaking memory.. i asume its some bug MS needs to straithen out. How is it working for you ?

I'll like to thank Jan Suomi for finding this one: Its a neat little php script for parsing a URL and splitting into a array: <?php function parse_query($var) { /** * Use this function to parse out the query array element from * the output of parse_url(). */ $var = parse_url($var, PHP_URL_QUERY); $var = html_entity_decode($var); $var = explode('&', $var); $arr = array(); foreach($var as $val) { $x = explode('=', $val); $arr[$x[0]] = $x[1]; } unset($val, $x, $var); return $arr; } $url = "http://somefunny.url.com/click?z=26&a=761"; print_r(parse_query($url)); ?>

Here is a neat little javascript function to load a remote CSS or Javascript file remotely: <script> function loadjscssfile(filename, filetype) { if (filetype=="js") { var fileref=document.createElement('script') fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript") fileref.setAttribute("src", filename) } else if (filetype=="css") { var fileref=document.createElement("link") fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet") fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css") fileref.setAttribute("href", filename) } if (typeof fileref!="undefined") { document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(fileref); } } </script>

I just got a new laptop – the latest version of the Samsung Series 9. The C Drive has 2 3.7GB files on it – the pagefile.sys and the hiberfil.sys. Removing pagefile.sys is relatively straightforward as it’s a standard feature of Windows. However, removing the hiberfil.sys on the Samsung Series 9 was more difficult. This is because it has firmware which does not support hibernation. As such, the computer can’t make any changes to the hibernation settings by default. The standard way to disable hibernation is to run an elevated command prompt and type powercfg -h off. This turns off hibernation and deletes the file. However, this gave me the error: “Hibernation failed with the following error: The request is not supported. The following items are preventing hibernation on this system. The system firmware does not support hibernation”. Bit of a catch 22 – you can’t delete it because you can’t turn it off, because it’s not supported. However, I was able to disable hibernation and therefore remove the hiberfil.sys via the registry editor (found as option 3 here). Open the start menu and type regedit in the search box then hit enter. In regedit, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power Double click ‘HibernateEnabled’ and change the value data to 0. Click OK, close regedit and restart to apply the changes. Hey presto, the hiberfil.sys is removed from the Samsung Series 9!

Above does it with style

According to a image sent in to MacRumors, iCloud support may be coming to Snow Leopard users. As you can see in the screenshot above, the .Mac preference pane in a previous OS X’s System Preferences reads: “You will no longer be able to sync with this machine because you’ve upgraded to iCloud. iCloud requires a computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.9 or later for Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmarks.” This message appeared in OS X 10.4 Tiger after a developer updated his MobileMe account to an iCloud account. The notice appears to be the first indication that OS X 10.6.9 is in the works. Presumably it will only include minor bug fixes and provide limited iCloud support for Snow Leopard. CurrentlyApple states that iCloud will require OS X 10.7, but that is presumably for the more advanced Documents, iTunes Match, Photo Stream, and Backups features. It’s reasonable to assume Apple isn’t going to lock non-Lion users out of their @me.com email addresses.

Want to be able to run Windows applications on Mac OS X without a virtual machine? Apple computer users have used virtual machines programs such as Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion to run Windows on their machines for ages now. Apple even implemented a feature called Bootcamp so that Mac users can install Windows on a second partition of their storage drive and boot up to it as a second operating system. But, what if you want to run Windows’ .exe programs directly from your Mac operating system? This has been impossible until now. In the Mac App Store, you can download an application called WinOnX. This application doesn’t require you to have any instance of Windows on your computer. Instead, you can download .exe (executable) applications to run directly from this program virtually. So in simpler words: you can run Windows applications on your Mac computer without Windows installed. Here’s how: Download WinOnX from the Mac App Store. It will cost you $4.99. After downloading WinOnX, find a .exe program that you wish to run, for example, Mozilla Firefox for Windows and download it. Once it downloads, you can double-click it to run it like you could with any .app application on your Mac computer. WinOnX will run you through installing and using the Windows application like you would on Windows, only on your Mac instead. Running Firefox for Windows on your Mac will yield this look: This option will cost you some money, but it uses a lot less disk space for Mac users. If you have a solid state drive like me, you may select this option instead of dual booting in order to save storage drive space. Redmond Pie recommends that you just buy a new PC to install Windows programs on, because Mac is beautiful on its own. Name: WinOnX Price: $4.99 Version: 1.0.1 Developer: Hisham El-Emam – NES Software Editor’s Rating:  3/5 Alternatively, you can try the free application: WineBottler.

Hi Mate, Are you testing this on a laptop or a stationary?

The bootCache error is not the error, thats just a normal message.. the problem is what comes afterwards.. and i think that is the issue... could you boot with: -x -v

1. Dont install 10.8, since you have not QE/CI support (accelrated graphics), ML will suck extra much.. go for Lion or SL 2. seems you need IOATAFamily.kext to fix the "Waiting for root device" Get it from here: IOATAFamily.kext.zip

did you install Lion or Mountain Lion ?

when you are in chameleon you can enter text as a option... type: -v and hit enter - that will boot in verbose mode so that you can see what errors etc. you are getting

6400-nvidia should be supported: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/compatibility/ .. if not. then you can help us make it so. And yes, EDP supports ML allready: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/bootpack/

I think we needed to update the DSDT for that model, i think the current one was based on a older bios update. However, for now.. there is a few things you can try. 1. Remove/replace battry and lan kexts 2. Google around and play with the OpenHaltRestart and EvOreboot kexts.

First of all, you might have to do some heavy DSDT editing, second of all you deffently need to dump lspci - with that you have little idea of hw addresses etc. But its all here.. so try it out: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/pre-installation/

Have a look here: http://www.cnet.com/laptops/gateway-md7818u/4505-3121_7-33496190.html Good news: OSX Lion will run on this system Bad news: It have Intel 4500 MHD, you will be able to get correct resolution, but no acceleration - aka.. no fun :-/ Sorry mate :-/

Hi, Download lspci for windows here: http://eternallybored.org/misc/pciutils/ Run it, and copy/paste the result here. That will give us a better idea about what you have running there

What bios version are you running ?

Replace motherboard with nvidis

I'll like to congratulate the Team behind this (Mario and foremost Mick) - awesome work guys.. give yourself a shoulder clap for this.. incredible peace of tech!!! Edit: TESTED OK: Dell Latitude D430, Snow Leopard and Lion TESTED OK: Dell Latitude e6220, Lion and Mountain Lion TESTED OK: Dell Latitude e6230, Lion and Mountain Lion

nevermind, i found it and added it

Hey, Can you please attach the ssdtPRGen.sh to your orginal post (+ any other files you might have used) - revogirls blog have been deleted.

A CPU is a easy fix for your machine and it will get alot faster and generate less heat.. + you wil be able to upgrade to Lion

Yep, but it was removed to limit the size... Try this http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-maccpuid/

Your welcome - actually.. a noiser fan on a D630 is a good thing since your heatsink is in general to weak for your GPU (hence why so many D630 die with dead GPU and you have to "bake" the motherboard)