Posts tagged ‘mac’
Always forget this bit:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Speficially needed if you are using a Linux box, shared by Apple Talk.
From here in this instance, although there are loads of howtos.
Earlier today I was writing up a design in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. When the inbuilt gamma checker highlighted the following word:
OK, I’ll give it that I, spreadsheet is probably correct, so I let it correct it and continued with my writing. Then a couple of seconds later I notice it has underlined the word again, but this time in red. This is the suggestion from the spelling checker when I right clicked on the word…
I’m at this point feeling stuck in some computer ‘helping’ me write hell!
Every time I need to use this modem on a new mac I end up fighting with it and often giving up. I’ve made it work this time, so I intend to document the process here so I dont spend hours googling next time.
These instructions worked on my iMac and my MacBook Pro both of which were running 10.5.7.
Before you start, make sure the modem is not connected.
First off download the drivers, the ones buried in the three.co.uk support site lack a actual installer even though the documentation suggests you just need to run the installer. WTF am I supposed to do with a bunch of .kext files three? Have you heard of a nice user experience? Clearly not. Click this link and download the zip file from here, inside is a standard OSX installer package. run that.
After that has installed, you dont need to reboot. Plug in the modem and wait a few minutes. The little LED started flashing blue occasionally for me which I think means I’ve got 3G coverage.
Once its calmed down open up network preferences where you should see a few new devices down the left hand side:
The device you are interested in is the HUAWEI Mobile, select that. Then in the ‘Telephone Number’ field enter *99#:
After you have done that click the ‘Advanced’ button. On the resulting pane, select ‘Generic’ from the Vendor drop down. Then select ‘GPRS (GSM/3G)’ from the Model field. If you are in the UK, enter ‘three.co.uk’ into the APN field and leave the CID as 1:
Click ok, and then click Apply on the main Network Preferences pane. After you’ve done this try clicking connect and you should see the following connection confirmation:
A nice little utility to monitor your connection is CheetahWatch which you can get from here.
I’ve just needed to snapshot a virtual machine running under VMware Fusion on my Mac but I only had SSH access. I’ve discovered the vmrun utility which is hidden away in XXX. VMware have a PDF of how to use it here. Very handy!
% export PATH=/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/:$PATH
% vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx
Total snapshots: 1
Fresh 5.2 all updates
% vmrun -T fusion snapshot SpaceWalk.vmx "SpaceWalk Installed"
% vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx
Total snapshots: 2
Fresh 5.2 all updates
SpaceWalk Installed
%
Bravo!
