Posted on October 26, 2007 by Shane Duffy
With over 300 new features:
They ones that appeal to me there most are
Quicklook: Using Quick Look in Leopard, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it. Flip through multipage documents. Watch full-screen video. See entire Keynote presentations. With a single click.
Quick Look works with nearly every file on your system, including [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2007 by Shane Duffy
Here is how I got Ubuntu 7.10 installed and working on my parallels virtual machine, also you might find Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed a very useful book to read.
VM Memory: 512 HD size 6-10GB
1. Boot the install CD. When the menu screen comes up press F6 for boot options before it starts the install
2. [...]
Filed under: Install Ubuntu, Install guide, Linux, Parallels, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10, mac, macbook pro | 56 Comments »
Posted on October 19, 2007 by Shane Duffy
So earlier today I was trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu 7.10 on my Macbook pro with out any success.
Turns out there are some issues with the VM machine and memory, by setting the VM to use only 512MB instead of the 1024MB I had alloted first time round the installer process now [...]
Filed under: Linux, Parallels, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10, macbook pro | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 18, 2007 by Shane Duffy
Just downloaded the lastest release of of Ubuntu. And decided to install in under Parallels of which Im running the current latest version 5162. Unbuntu installer just seems to lock up while trying to install with no errors or warnings and can only be recovered by resetting the the VM.
There seems to be a number [...]
Filed under: Linux, Mac OS X, Parallels, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10, macbook pro | Tagged: Installing linux, Parallels desktop, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10 | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 5, 2007 by Shane Duffy
Recently I have been having a lot of issues with my macbook pro and connecting to my home network, Airport on mac osx would seem to be connecting to find to the network, but the computer would never get an address from the dhcp server on the network, and manually setting the ip address would [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2007 by Shane Duffy
I have a macbook pro and sometimes I need to connect to the console port on some of the cisco networks I do work on.
Today I went out and bought a USB to Serial converter from maplin, the driver disk that comes with the product is one of the small CDs which would get stuck [...]
Filed under: cisco, mac, network, os x, tools | 2 Comments »
