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This is wonderful!!! Thanks to all of you guys visiting my pages. I hope I could be of service.
See (almost) current statistics here…
Yes it is true. The “XMBC on OS X” project maintains a version solely for OS X. It is running quite stable and look well known from my beloved XBox. It seems like the x264 implementation is a lot faster than the one inside VLC. But on the other hand XBMC has for instance issues with AAC 5.1 sounds. Means you need to transcode AAC5.1 to AC3. Rebooting to windows and using Zoom Player is faster I must admit…
Before reading on please do me the favor to answer this question:

However this project looks really promising. I wish the dev team all the best and encourage you guys reading here to donate some euros to the XBMC dev team. They really need it.
Project Page: Link here
Download: Link here
I got to know this issue for the first time when I installed a clean Leopard 10.5.1 to my HackMac and then upgraded like Netkas recommends. Since I remembered the old Tiger times and my bunch of problems with my x1650 ATI (read some hints for the ATI x1650 here), I decided to reinstall the system from the peek without applying the Graphics Update. And this way it works. The only thing that may happen: as long as you do not install the Graphics Update, further updates may not be shown in the update manager.
Because all that hazzle with the x1650 graphics I had, I decided to get a new card (ATI Radeon 2600HD XT – read how to install it).
Last week I decided to update my MacBook Pro aswell – which was still running on Tiger. See the way I did it here. Ad the funny thing in the end was… Ok I upgraded to 10.5.2, did the reboot thing and did the Graphics Update and… tatatata….
Description of the Issue
My MBP did not show me any login screen anymore. Instead I got a fixed mouse pointer in the upper left and a second mouse pointer that could be moved. But no windows or login possibilities. Before reading on what I did, please do me the favor and tell me:
Solving this damn issue manually
I can’t exactly say what those Apple Devs thought by themselves when releasing this Graphics Update but the internet is full of articles where people tell this update f*cked their systems. Ok lets try some things…
"command","option", "P" and "R" (means 'Apple-Key' and 'Alt-Key' and 'p' and 'r')Leopard DVD at hand and reboot your system holding the “ALT” key and choose to boot from DVD. Those of you who yet have a second partition and followed the guide mentioned above do the same but choose the second partition to boot.Disk Utility” thenRepair Disk Permissions“Additional notes:
The steps I performed above are intended to be applied to a system with genuine Apple hardware. This will not work on HackMac systems!!!
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This time we’re gonna install Leopard from a .dmg image instead from DVD. The purpose is having a repair and recovery system by the hand in case you need it. My story is this: after having had a clean install of Leopard finished and having had applied all the updates, my MBP simply crashed again and again (two mouse pointers error – I found a solution in the meantime: that bug belongs to the Leopard Graphics Update – read it here howto fix it), since at that point I could not fix it, I then decided to reinstall. Something seemed fishy and would hopefully be gone after another fresh install. But as you expect: the same problem occurred again. I then decided to restore my previous tiger install and installed the Leopard DVD to a second partition. This way nothing can stop me, whereever I am, whatever does not work…
Ok what to do now?
I assume
Now, let the game begin…
Mac OS X Install DVD (highlight it) and choose New Image
Read as type of image and name it Mac OS X Install DVD(see picture)
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 139G "HFS+" "LeoInst" 10GLeoInst (disk0s1 is in this case the EFI partition – see here, what makes the EFI partition so interesting, system partition starts at disk0s2 – that’s the partition we’re gonna resize and split into disk0s2 and disk0s3)rebootMac OS X Install DVD.dmg image (should be located on the desktop!)Mac OS X Install DVD (which is in fact now a partition) as start volumeAdditional notes
These instructions are intended to be applied to genuine Apple systems rather than HackMacs. In my case I used my MacBook Pro. Because of the different .kexts to be applied to HackMacs this guide will not work for those systems! Be warned!
Dass das iPhone auch in Österreich von T-Mobile eingeführt wird, war gerüchteweise schon seit einiger Zeit bekannt. Nicht bekannt war, welche Tarife T-Mobile in Österreich anbieten würde. Traditionell ist Mobiltelefonieren in Österreich günstiger als in Deutschland und so ist es auch mit den Tarifen des iPhones. Laut Golem.de sehen die Tarife für Austria folgendermaßen aus:
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OSX supports real hibernation not only that sleep mode that costs electricity. It really supports it. But you gotta enable or disable it manually. So what to do:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1Enjoy folks…
We all know Time Machine is handy (at least since update 10.5.2 which fixed tons of issues). But one thing is not very handy: we usually cannot change the intervall of the backups. Before I will show you a simple solution please do me the favor to tell me:
Do the following (I assume you’re logged in with your normal user account):
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 3600sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 21600
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 43200The simple formula is just a conversion from minutes or hours to seconds. Means: 1800 seconds = 30 minutes…
You can also go smack to the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto file and edit it using a texteditor and change the StartInterval values. But I feel like the solution above might be faster… Kudos fly to mactricksandtips.com.
As of today we got 2,000 unique visitors. This is one thing to be glad of. But the far more thing we xreally like: we are an international community. You are visiting this newz site from all the continents we got on planet earth:
Welcome Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, Asia, Australia and North and South America. Make yourself comfortable here and let me know if I can be of any help…
Kind regards from Berlin/Germany,
MetaPapa
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Deutschsprachige Version weiter unten…
Sadly but the iPhone and the iPod Touch doesn’t understand a regular DivX, XviD or anything else in AVI containers. So if you don’t like commercial software either there is a very nice way using the VideoLanClient MediaPlayer. Follow these steps:
File -> Open File” – a dialog pops upBrowse” to the file you wanna convert (see pic for reference)Streaming/Saving” and click on “Settings” – a new dialog pops up
Encapsulation” as “mp4“512 - 2048” kb/s (problems may occur above 2500 kb/s – btw: there is no need to convert an xvid with 800kb/s to mp4 with 2000kb/s. My experience says: 1024kb/s is way sufficient for the iPhone’s little display)Audio” as “mp4a“64 - 256” kb/s (I am really satisfied with 192kb/s but don’t hesitate to play with these configs)OK” ;-) – you will land in the first window againOK" aswellProlly some errors occur with dropped frames or something: you can almost forget them. So far I didn’t have any video that did not play properly on the iPhone…
This howto is based on notes by Tim Fick.
See above for english language version…
Ok also für das Land der Filmfreunde eine kurze Übersetzung mit deutschen Bildern… Ihr kennt möglicherweise das Problem schon: das iPhone kann mit den allermeisten Eurer Videos nichts anfangen, außer mit diesem merkwürdigen .mp4 Format, mit dem sich Euer DVD Player oder das XBMC gar nicht gut vertragen. Das iPhone braucht also mal wieder eine Extrawurst und die lassen sich viele Hersteller von Konvertierungsprogrammen gerne ein wenig bezahlen. Im Folgenden findet Ihr allerdings eine Anleitung, bei der Ihr mit einem einzigen kostenlosen Tool (dem VideoLan Client) nach iPhone kompatiblem .mp4 konvertiert. Die Fotos sind von der Mac Version, der VLC sieht aber unter Windows (nahezu) identisch aus…
Ablage -> Datei öffnen” (unter Windows wird das “Datei -> Datei öffnen sein”) und ein Dialogfenster wird sich öffnenDurchsuchen“, um die zu konvertierende Datei auszuwählen (siehe Bild)Streamen/Sichern” and klick auf “Einstellungen” – und es öffnet sich ein neues DialogfensterVerkapselungsmethode” (schon ein geiles Wort auf Deutsch, tsts…) nehmt Ihr “mp4“512 - 2048” kb/s festlegen (ab 2500 kb/s soll es wohl Probleme geben mit der Wiedergabe auf dem iPhone – aber es macht ohnehin keinen Sinn ein 800kb/s XViD nach 2000kb/s mp4 zu transkodieren. In meinen Fällen haben 1024kb/s für das Minidisplay the iPhones vollkommen ausgereicht und ich meine vollkommen ausgereicht)Audio” auf “mp4a” stellen64 - 256” kb/s festlegen (mir reichen 192kb/s vollkommen ;-)OK” klicken und Ihr landet wieder in dem ersten DialogfensterOK" klickenEnjoy
Only four weeks after the initial 5.0 release the TrueCrypt Team released version 5.1 of their encryption package. New and fixed features as follows:
Nach gerade mal vier Wochen hat das TrueCrypt Team das Update auf Version 5.1 veröffentlicht. Die wesentlichen Neuerung (und Bugfixes):