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This can be accomplished with QuickTime Player in Snow Leopard. From the File menu, select New Screen Recording. When you have finished recording, the video file will be opened for playback and from the Share menu, you can select YouTube....
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I know you can do a fresh install on a clean system, so you could try this: copy your existing install to an external drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!), wipe the internal drive, do a clean install of Lion, then use Migration Assistant to copy your old system onto the fresh Lion install.
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Stop Spaces from switching spaces due to an app coming to the foreground:
defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO && killall Dock
Or via the GUI: System Prefs > Spaces and then uncheck the checkbox at the bottom: "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application"
Stop (slow down) ...
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No, this will not work. You can have multiple versions of OS X on one machine, but you can only install newer versions than the one that came pre-installed. For example, if your machine came with 10.6.4, you can't run 10.6.3 or older.
When Apple releases new hardware, the drivers for that hardware get rolled into a special build of OS X that comes only on ...
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Hard to answer, not because technical difficulty - but psychology. ;) So I will take take the answer a bit easy...
A. The simple way
Make an TimeMachine backup. (if you do 1st times will get a full backup) so you will able restore anything what you created on the Mac. For this you will need:
one external HDD (big enough), connect it
go to system prefs
...
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I'd recommend turning off fade-in animation under Appearance where you'll see "Fade in Alfred window".
The only reasons Alfred would be slow are either RAM swapping and you're out of memory or, unlikely but possible, could be due to a network drive that is still being looked for after being disconnected.
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Macports select can change it back.
The current macports does it using the port select command - older versions had python_select
To see the possible pythons run
port select --list python
From that list choose the one you want and change to it e.g.
sudo port select --set python python25-apple
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There are known issues (Apple-created bugs) with several revisions of OS X 10.5 Leopard Client and AFP file access, including permission problems and in certain cases even the potential to lose or overwrite files completely.
There is no work-around for these bugs, they are in the operating system itself and can be reproduced on 2 freshly-formatted & ...
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As already described by ayaz, the Get Info window (cmd+i) has the full path and will allow you to copy it. If you tripple click in the highlighted area (by the red rectangle) the selection will automatically expand to the whole path. cmd + c will suffice to copy it to the clipboard.
If you need the path to interact with the Terminal, you can always check ...
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There are two ways I do this (and the info window is neither of them):
Open the Terminal application and drag the item into the window, and a POSIX-style path will be displayed that you can copy and paste.
Use Applescript...
...select an item in the Finder and run this...
tell application "Finder"
return info for selection as alias
end tell
...or ...
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I have a copy of Leopard that came with the MacBook. However it fails
checksums.
You can try to repair the disc using this method. Never done it but the author claims he has, and it worked for him. Your mileage may vary.
I have an upgrade copy of Snow Leopard on DVD. (Unsurprisingly?) the
MacBook won't install from it.
You seem to have bad luck with ...
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The Lion USB drive you bought works to upgrade a Mac with Snow Leopard (10.6) or you can of course use it to install Lion onto a bare (erased) drive.
Most people will make a back up (using the bootable USB drive to run Disk Utility) to an external drive or alternately - install Lion onto an external drive.
At that point you can hand migrate things or see ...
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You can use RCDefaultApp, it's a freeware System Preference Pane that works in Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger and Panther.
You must go to "Extension tab" and find .WAV in the list and change the Defallt Application.
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I can think of a variety of methods to do what you want, but none of them are easy solutions. You'll probably need to write some code. This question should be tagged PBX, but that is too obscure for this site.
You'll probably want minicom installed to control the G5 modem. Get it via fink or macports. If you can use minicom to check the number without ...
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According to this page, you need to get on Snow Leopard before installing Lion. It also gives hardware compatibility requirements, which are basically that you have an Intel Core 2 Duo (note: NOT Intel Core Duo), Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor in your Mac.
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Well, if it's a MacBookPro3,1 model, then you can upgrade the RAM to it's maximum of 6 Gb. Ram is extremely cheap these days, would be less than a 100$ I imagine.
As for hard drives, you could install a 7200 RPM drive (like Western Digital Black series), again cheap, ~100$ for 750 Gb. If you have a bigger budget and no need for such space I strongly suggest ...
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Yes - your example of running a supported OS in virtualization would let you use the officially developed and supported Apple client software to tap into the photo stream. Once you have the software running, it should be fairly painless to get the files to disk and then available for viewing on Snow Leopard.
It's technically possible to virtualize Lion as ...
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You can use Monolingual to trim the locales you don't require. This should trim at least a couple of GB.
The printer drivers are located in /Library/Printers. You can delete everything within the Printers directory (note, do not touch the /System/Library/Printers/ directory).
Additionally, if it's a default install, it may have come with iLife. GarageBand ...
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Sounds like your DNS might be hijacked, which could be your router or your Mac.
I'd suggest using OpenDNS for a while to see if the behaviour stops. If it does, then you will need to look at getting your DNS reconfigured.
If the behaviour continues then it may be malware but honestly I can't think of a single one that would do this.
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About This Mac > More Info... will give you a model # and serial #. With those, Apple can tell you whether your machine is compatible. Or you can look in the table on this iMac page on Wikipedia to identify your machine. Or compare the physical requirements for Lion to what you find in About This Mac.
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This is by design. A non-admin user is defined by not being able to use sudo (and the graphical equivalent in the mac windowmanager). You can still enter the admin user and password using sudo -u or the graphical equivalent but short of compromising/modifying the built in controls, that's how the system is designed to work.
The su command doesn't work as ...
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I think you've got the best way, I know you can mount the disk image inside the netboot image, but AFAIK it breaks the netboot; and some updates can't be applied to a non-boot-drive disk image.
If you're netbooting a lot, I'd recommend using DeployStudio, a free, open-source powerhouse for network deployment and the like; it makes it a bit easier to update ...
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Besides maybe posting to Craigslist for a better deal, 10.5.6 is still available for sale on Amazon.
Please know there was no PPC-specific version of the installer (it works cross-architecture), so if you find one it will work on that Mac (as long as its processor is 867 Mhz or faster w/ 9 GB of free disk space and a DVD drive). It was only Tiger that had ...
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What happened could’ve been because of different reasons. Certain old Macbook Pros had troubles with sleeping (hence why zneak wants to know about the model).
However I believe that your computer woke up (wake on lan? hung process?) during the night and it burned through your battery. What are your Energy Settings?
Also, get some sort of CPU meter like ...
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So apparently I was reading it wrong. According to Thomas Franzén ( lightheadsw )
Virtual memory size is a meaningless
number for most uses. An application
having a big virtual memory size
doesn't affect you, because it's just
a virtual memory space. The column you
should be looking at is RSIZE. That's
the actual amount of physical RAM an
...
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I use Automatic (I use 1.x version, which was free, I see there’s version 2.x which is a paid update and I didn’t know about. My 1.x works ok), Transmission for the download (it monitors the files that Automatic downloads from a RSS feed I’ve created using ShowRSS (free).
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You can actually merge multiple PDFs right from Preview.app. Just open two PDFs in two separate windows, turn on the sidebars, and drag pages from one sidebar to the other. This won't provide you with a table of contents, but you can always just make something in TextEdit, export it as a PDF, then add it to the beginning of the document.
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Insert the Snow Leopard DVD into your DVD drive. Reboot the computer and hold down the Option key (newer keyboard call it "Alt"). After a few seconds, the screen will show your hard drive(s) and the DVD. Select the DVD, this will start the Installer.
If your previous installation of Leopard was corrupted by a failing hard drive, you will not be able to ...
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The above [now below as this is the 'accepted' answer] instructions will install Snow Leopard - but not technically a clean install.
To do so follow the above steps but enter Disk Utility after choosing the language in the installer. You can wipe it from there.
Stolen from Macs.com
the Snow Leopard installer will ask which language you want to use as ...
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