Nice !!!

Thanks heaps for this, worked a treat.

excellent solution… hopefully it sticks. i tried something else to stop notification center from launching (after I disabled it the wrong way) and the messages came back. worst case, i’ll have to enter the commands every time the computer starts up, which i really don’t mind. THANK YOU!!!!!

The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Apple’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).

I had this message on my time machine. What does this means and how do I resolve it? Can anyone help me, please?

Thanks !

Thanks a lot!

I’m pretty sure you need to use “sudo” for launchctl to even see system launch agents. Otherwise it just looks for stuff from your user.

Unless of course you’re just looking for launch agents that are in your user account.

Thanks you for this. I love that you wrote this up with the alternatives and explanations and it was only a google search away!

Thanks.

Worked a treat thanks!

Thanks a lot! I have been struggling with this. It didn’t seem to work for me, until I realized you must also apply “overfow:hidden” to the containing div. Not only “fixed” height. That solves the added unwanted scroll problem of IE. (For me at least)

Thanks! Easy and it works

2011 model macbook air. Success. Thank you very much!

works like a charm, thanks bro

I have a 27″ iMac and I’m using a Magic Mouse. This too was an annoying issue for me personally. Here’s what I did to fix it. No third party software required.

1.) Open Terminal and type the following command:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

2.) Go into System Preferences, under Mouse and move the Tracking slider to the third position from the right side.

3.) Go back into Terminal and type the following command:
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 2.25

YOU MUST LOG OUT AND BACK IN TO SEE THE CHANGES.

Step 1 above disables the mouse acceleration that makes a mac mouse over shoot it’s target. At least that’s how I describe what it’s doing. Annoying. After this is disabled, depending on the Tracking you had setup, at first it feels like you’ve made it worse, but do steps 2 and 3 and your mouse will then act allot more like a Windows, which is especially good if you are forced to work on Windows at work and come home to a Mac.

If it isn’t quite right for you, try playing with the number in step 3. Change the 2.25. to 3.0 or more to make it faster, and go the other way (2.0, 1.5, etc) to make it slower.

Another side note; If you want to turn acceleration back on retype the command in step 1 and substitute the -1 for a 1
Also the default scaling, on my computer was 1.5. You can set it back to the default if you like. You can also read the value at anytime using the command… defaults read -g com.apple.mouse.scaling

Hope this helps Jimmy

Awesome! Worked like a charm! Many thanks
[Mountain Lion]

Another success. Thanks!

thanks for the post.

Works perfectly on Mountain Lion. Thanks for the tip!

Excellent Explanation!

Thanks a lot..Worked for me :)

specifically type “launchctl remove” and then what? Just typing that gets the message command not found. I put in the line number where the carbonite code is and copied and pasted the code after typing “launchctl remove". PLEASE BE MORE EXPLICIT WITH DIRECTIONS. Thanks

Spot on, thanks very much!

You may also want to include a note for laptop users who don’t have Home/End keys and want to use CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow to achieve the same cursor movement.

The OS keyboard shortcuts have CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow mapped to “move left a space” and “move right a space” respectively under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control. When you only have one space setup (the default), it is not easy to tell this is what the keys do.

These shortcuts overrule the Terminal keyboard settings, so you need to change or disable them if you want to use those key combinations to navigate in Terminal.

TY Very Useful

Thanks! It took me a really long time to understand what was going on!

Thank you!!

I’ve been trying to find a solution to removing a ‘MacKeeper’ file for three weeks, thank you…

This solution worked great!!!

Thanks ! The width:100%; worked for me :-)

I updated for Mountain Lion and I also listed all possible escape sequences that were recommended here. I highlighted the ones that seem to work everywhere.

As of OSX 10.6.8, the correct fix is:

Terminal->Preferences->Settings->Keyboard->+

Key: home or end
Modifier: none
Action: send string to shell

Then for the sequence PRESS ESCAPE (or CTRL-[ ) to get a “\033″ and then type “[H” or “[F” for home and end so the full thing is “\033[H” or “\033[F".

It’s worth noting that these are already bound to Shift-Home and Shift-End (which are obtained with Shift-Fn-Left and Shift-Fn-Right). So if you can change your habits slightly you don’t actually need to reconfigure anything.

Francois: it would be nice if you updated your post to reflect this, since it is the first result in Google and I doubt many people are going to read down the comments this far.

Hi, can you give an update the post for squeeze, where /usr/share/doc/php-apc/apc.php.gz
does not exist? Cheers

I received a video movie from a postproduction company. Here’s the info: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), Linear PCM, Timecode

There’s 7 sound tracks. Tracks 1 to 5: dolby and tracks 6-7: stereo.

To approve the file, I need to listen to the dolby tracks. Here’s what I tried:
1- I connected my MB pro with an optical cable.
2- I tested the connection with the macos included DVD Player. The dolby digital works fine when I unckecked the dolby compression option.
3- I played my .mov video with Quicktime 10.1. Only stereo.
4- Tried with VLC and NicePlayer and unchecked tracks 6-7. Only stereo.
5- Even if it’s not AC3 sound, I tried with Perian and Quicktime 10.1 (http://www.cod3r.com/2008/02/the-correct-way-to-enable-ac3-passthrough-with-quicktime/). Still stereo.

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong? I would be appreciated.

Thanks

I’ve looking for solution to exactly this problem and the solution presented here works!

I tried it but it doesn’t change the address to www.domainname.com

After all this time still worth a million.

I LOVE YOU !!!
I finally got rid of INTEGO!

Height:100%; fixed IE8 issue but now in Firefox it’s not showing scroll.

What about with Mountain Lion “retina” support. How does this work out?

FlyingAvatar, it’s a split output DVI device, meaning you will always get the SAME signal out of both DVI ports.

In order to get Windows to actually display 2880x1800 pixels, you need to set your Mac to use that resolution.

Apple doesn’t let you do this (because then everything looks so small) but you can use FreeRez to do it!

Right now, we have a screen which has 2880 x 1800 physical pixels and that Windows 7 can handle a resolution of 2880 x 1800 without problems (except for the fact that the text looks small by default).

Given that, why does there have to be downscaling and upscaling involved ?

When Adobe says they are making Photoshop Retina display compatible, they mean that a 2880 x 1800 pixels photo will be displayed with a 1:1 pixel mapping with NO downscaling + upscaling involved … And NO need to change the Mac setting from “Best for Retina display".

So when Parallels say they let us “take full advantage of the retina display” we expect the same thing: A 2880 x 1800 Windows desktop should be displayed without any scaling involved.

My mouse is not working in sync with my movements after rebooting my mac is there anything I can do to remedy this?
Many thanks

Strange, but with mpm_prefork_module it does not helps.. may be something else?

I upgraded from a Drobo 4bay to a Drobo FS which is a network shared device and even connects with iSCSI (network connection at 1000kbps)

i use this in a small office environment where my assistant also needs access to the same device.

i tried the above, but the icons don’t appear on my desktop - so far the only way is to open the local drive icon and selecting the DroboFS from the side bar.
(i’m running a new Macbook Pro with OSX Lion. )

The Mac is indeed an excelent platform that potentiats great apps.
Things app, for the mac is also great and my choice for the mac and ipad.
For windows i use GTD-Free http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/, not pretty but is a real GTD tool, simple and efective.

This guy seems to be very happy with an USB-to-DVI adapter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0GbrZVDXLk

I just installed smcFanContol 2.3 on my MacPro1,1 which I think was built around 2008 and is a 2 x 3 quad core intel xeon. Contrary to your statement, it DEFINITELY works on my Mac Pro tower and I’ve got the fans running now at 1,200 RPM and the temperature has reduced from 108ºF to 93ºF already! So I guess the version you were commenting on was earlier and perhaps didn’t work on MPs. But the app does now AND per the website, 2.3 works on Lion! I see your post was in 2009. It’s 2012 now so things have changed I guess.

Did you guys solve this problem? If not here’s the solution. I was pretty pissed after reading your comments and having the same problem on my MP3,1/2008. So I searched for the plist-File which is located inside ./Library/Preferences (->com.lobotomo.MacProFan.plist). You can easily edit the base speed using a plist-editor like Apple’s Property List Editor or such. I reduced back to 600rpm and all was well ;)

Thanks ! The width:100%; worked for me :-)

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