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Apple

Couldn’t find root user? Oh my.

14 March 2010

At my other job I was given a Mac laptop to fix that wouldn’t boot. It just sat there on the spinning wheel and never came to the logon screen. So first thing I did was to boot in verbose mode by holding CMD-V down after the boot sound. This shows boot messages. Doing this [...]

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Installing Diablo 2 on an Intel Mac

5 July 2009

Back in the day (2000-2003) I played Diablo 2 — a lot. A bit of nostalgia and the upcoming release of Diablo 3 meant it was time to give it another shot — but I couldn’t find my CDs anywhere. No problem, I went out and purchased the Diablo 2 Battle Chest which includes [...]

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How to Save on Mobile Me

26 June 2009

I like Mobile Me from Apple. I use many of its features, like syncing between my iPhone and lots of Macs and PCs, the iDisk storage, publishing of web pages, etc. I’ve had it for years, and each year it auto-renews for $99.00. Over those years I’ve purchased two different Macs. Each time there’s [...]

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