MacBook “Pro” Retina impressions. (Probably the last Mac I will ever buy after being a loyal customer for three decades.) Dude, where is my gigabit ethernet port? Where do I insert my CD? Why do some media show up in quarter size in full screen? Oh, that’s retina. Doh! Updating a knowledge base document named “Avoiding […]
On my 17″ MBP (Mid-2010) running 10.8.2, I have been noticing jumping and submarining mouse pointer only in Mail, and specifically when a new message is being put together, and only in the area of message body entry. Has anyone noticed this, and if so, is there a remedy? Thanks in advance. ©2013 EthnoSync.com. All […]
I had tons of problems with File Vault 2, on a multitude of machines. And I ended up removing it from all of my machines but one, which I take with me when I travel. I firmly believe that FV2 is half baked, and not reliable. In addition, Apple’s ‘logical drive’ software implementation is currently […]
After some experimentation, I believe: Filevault 2 off: recovery partition shows up with option key held at boot. Filevault 2 on: option key no longer shows the recovery partition, but it is possible to boot into it using command-R at boot. ©2012 EthnoSync.com. All Rights Reserved.
Following an update to iOS 6, today we were hit with AT&T’s four times data overage (4 x 200MB) for my son’s iPhone. He had used 30 MB for the first 15 days of the data cycle, and the rest since iOS 6 came out. After a little investigation, he pinned it down to Apple’s own Podcasts […]
After installing iOS6 on my phone and OSX 10.8.2, Xcode 4.5 and iPhoto 9.4 on two machines in a matter of minutes, I could not install MS Office 11 14.2.4 despite trying for over 3 hours. The install fails at the very tail end running its post install scripts. Here is what I have tried: […]
After using Mountain Lion since its release, here is my gripe list, in no particular order. Some of these issues are older than ML:. Whole disk encryption is half baked. Disk Utility can not reliably handle them. When whole disk encryption is used, recovery partition does not show up during start-up with the option key, […]
Bugs: Finder selections do not stick. Add ‘label’ to a list view, sort by label, after a restart the machine, you may need to add it again. With Lion and prior, hitting tab and entering password worked. With ML, hit tab, enter password misses the first character. Interestingly, this works just fine on a Hackintosh. […]
Oracle has taken over the development of OSX Java and had released Version 7 for Mac. I had installed it about 10 days ago, and yesterday, its auto update mechanism kicked in and updated itself. I do not believe there will be a Java 6 update as Apple has stopped doing so in 2010. The […]
Successfully updated one machine to 10.8.1. In order to move the installer to my second machine, I connected my three-partition drive to the second machine. My backup partition on that drive is encrypted. I entered the password (I know, I know, not necessary since I don’t need that partition, but what could go wrong, right?) […]
