You may experience the following error when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) when installing on Intel iMAC using Bootcamp to run Windows XP.
“There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 3 Setup requires an additional 4 megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstallation,Setup requires 4 additional megabytes of free space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again.”
This happens because iMac uses EFI file format which Windows XP does not support. To workaround this problem, add a registry key as follows:
1. Click Start – Run – Type “regedit” and press enter.
2. Navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Setup
3. In the right pane, Right-click and select New – String value
4. Name it as “BootDir” and set its value to “C:\”
This should help. Try installing SP3 and should work fine.
To enable Safe Sleep on a mac, issue the following command on a terminal:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1
When the lid is closed, the ram content will be written to disk.
By issuing the following, the ram content will be written to disk only when the battery is almost dead.
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
If you hide an application, you can reflect this in the dock by making the icons transparent. Just execute the following command in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add ‘TB Item Identifiers’ ‘(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain, Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)’
Source: macworld.com
Interesting list of all TCP and UDP ports used by Apple: Apple info
Source: Apple info
There is a big list here of services you can turn on/off on an apple computer running Tiger and/or Leopard.
Source: macgeekery
Just switch on the mouse and click a button.
On windows: Open up port 3389
On OsX: Open up port 3283 and 5900
VNC: Open up port 5900
First enter the following in a terminal window:
- defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
Then restart the Dock:
- killall Dock
Source: MacOsxHints
$ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
$ killall Finder
Source: MacOsxHints
