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Saturday 1 March 2008

FreeBSD on MacBook (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo models)

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Important (13/05/2008) : As I've just bought a MacBook Pro, this post won't be updated anymore. You're free to reuse this content into a Wiki or any web page, I'll be happy to give its link from here.

Dual boot FreeBSD / MacOS X on MacBook how-to (and the related issues).

FreeBSD on MacBook

Changelog:

  • 01/03/2008: Update for FreeBSD 7.0.
  • 28/05/2007: Update about sound recording, some minor changes.
  • 20/05/2007: Update for X.org 7.2.
  • 02/04/2007: Core 2 Duo model related changes.
  • 30/03/2007: Some fixes, FreeBSD Ethernet device driver, X.org French azerty mapping
  • 29/03/2007: How-to uninstall FreeBSD.
  • 04/02/2007: Details on detected devices.
  • 01/02/2007: Sound driver now works.
  • 07/01/2007: 3D acceleration : kernel patch is not needed anymore.
  • 06/12/2006: Keyboard mapping with X.org.
  • 18/11/2006: Sound driver, Ethernet driver, X.org 3D acceleration, details about keyboard problems with X.org, some page setup changes.
  • 17/11/2006: First details on sound management, first details on Ethernet management, new details on FreeBSD uninstall.

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Sunday 19 August 2007

ICC profiles and applications

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As I said in a previous Capture NX test, JPEG files may have integrated ICC profile, but applications which display these files may not know how to use these profiles, which give an hazardous color rendering, when it's not fully false.

  • 19/08/2007: Firefox 3.0 alpha 7 supports ICC profiles

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Saturday 19 May 2007

Know everything about your Apple computer display

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If you own an Apple computer, and want to know all features of its LCD display, you just have to follow these steps.

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Saturday 5 May 2007

Change spell chek dictionary into MacOS X applications

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I you have to use many languages for your writings, you may not know how to switch from a language to another for built-in spell checker without changing system language.

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Wednesday 2 May 2007

Firefox 2.0 and undo closed tabs

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If you want to undo an accidental tab closing, you have many ways to do:

  • right click on the tab bar, select “Undo close tab” and repeat it as many time needed.
  • open “History” menu then “Recently closed tabs” then the tab you want to reopen.

I've accidentally found a third way: it's the keyboard shortcut <cmd>+<shift>+<T> on Apple computers and <ctrl>+<shift>+<T> on other systems.

Saturday 21 April 2007

Thunderbird 2 and quotas

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Until now, if you access to your mailbox through an IMAP account with Thunderbird, and quotas were applied, the only way to quickly access them was to install “Display Quota” extension. With Thunderbird 2, this extension became obsolete.

There now are three key to change to display quotas with Thunderbird 2:

  • “mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show”: in percent, when the quota meter starts showing up at all (you should set this key to 0 if you want to always display it).
  • “mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.warning”: in percent, when it gets yellow.
  • “mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.critical”: in percent, when it gets red.

But for the two last keys, I can't see any effect (MacOS X version).

To change these keys, open Thunderbird options, go to “Advanced” section, then “General” tab, then click onto “Config Editor…” button. In the next window, enter key name into search field, then double click on it to change its value.

Thursday 15 June 2006

Sony Ericsson DCU-11, MacOS X 10.4 and PhoneAgent

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Sony Ericsson mobile phone, as F500i/k500i, T610, etc. may be connected to a computer with a serial (phone side) to USB (computer side) converter, like DCU-11 cable. The purpose is to transfer files (mp3, pictures, etc.) between phone or computer, or use the phone as a GSM ou GPRS modem. The only "little" problem is that Sony Ericsson only propose Windows tools and drivers.

The main thing to know is the converter uses a Prolific PL2303 chipset. Here comes the how-to about using DCU-11 cable with MacOS X 10.4.x (it should work with MacOS X 10.3.x).

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Wednesday 15 March 2006

OpenTom: listen to mp3 with your TomTom PND

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Until now, TomTom PND where only used to go from somewhere to elsewhere. Now, they are able to play your mp3 files.

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Tuesday 15 March 2005

OpenVPN IPv6 routing between a Windows 2000 workstation and an OpenBSD server

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The goal of this how-to is to allow a Windows 2000 workstation with no tunnel broker access (as in many enterprise network) to access to an IPv6 network with an OpenVPN tunnel.

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Friday 11 March 2005

Disable temporary IPv6 addresses under Windows XP

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By default, Windows XP uses temporary IPv6 addresses (changed each time you reboot your computer). This behavior may be may inappropriate, mainly when you use connection tracking.

In order to disable temporary addresses, then only use addresses given IPv6 routing daemon, you have to execute the following command line:

ipv6 -p gpu UseTemporaryAddresses no

then reboot the computer.

Monday 14 February 2005

Trackpad scrolling with old PowerBooks and iBooks

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Today, I will initiate a new post category : HOW-TOs. I will begin with two fingers scroll on old PowerBook and iBook models, without any third party software (like SideTrack), but just with a modified trackpad driver.

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