JHM
mac os x
Install/Upgrade to Leopard in Target Disk Mode
jhm – Mon, 2008 – 08 – 25 09:11
Earlier this year I was faced with the challenge to upgrade a Mac Book Pro to Leopard, the machine in question would not read the Leopard DVD, however. What to do, go back to the Apple store and lament the oddity?
Well, fortunately I had a second Mac Book Pro from work which I upgraded prior and which could read the DVD just fine, which also told me that the DVD media itself wasn't to blame.
I remembered that you can hook up two Apple computer, using the disk of the other computer by booting it in Firewire Target Mode. Doing that I was able to use the DVD drive of the computer that was able to read the Leopard DVD media and kick off an installation on the disk in the other computer.
Copy Tracks to remote iTunes
jhm – Sat, 2008 – 03 – 15 09:02
Thanks to Paul I got spared a lot of time trying to figure this out for myself. I have the same setup (mini with front row as media center) and even use a NAS to store everything, but could never figure out how to add it to the remote iTunes
Newton Virus
jhm – Thu, 2008 – 03 – 06 09:57
This totally reminds me of the Amiga ...
Mail.app Unread Mystery
jhm – Thu, 2007 – 08 – 23 09:56
After having silently suffered for a long time, finally the solution to my read e-mails reverting back to unread status ...
Parallels and Solaris
jhm – Thu, 2007 – 01 – 18 10:44
When adding or changing disks to a parallels VM, you might see the following error message 
To fix it, boot into the failsafe mode and run bootadm on the mounted root disk like in the following image 
Unlocking the full potential of your Mac Pro's Sony DW-D150A
jhm – Wed, 2007 – 01 – 10 07:59
Apple has been shipping two types of burners in the MacPro. The first is far from being unknown, as it is a Pioneer DVR-111D. The second, which one finds more often, is a Sony DW-D150A.