Blog of Robert Lacroix

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• Fixing spontaneous reboots caused by VMware Fusion 2 Beta

  There is a bug in VMware Fusion 2 Beta (Beta 1 and Beta 2) that results in spontaneous reboots without even throwing a kernel panic. The problem occurs only when powering up a virtual machine after the Mac has been waked up from sleep. Especially Mac Read More... Posted Sonntag, 10. August 2008 10:44 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Fusion 2 Beta, kernel extension, vmmon, vmx86, spontaneous reboot, crash, VMware, Mac Pro, Mac OS X, SleepWatcher, sleep, wake

• KisMac 0.2a SVN build

  Since the guys from Binaervarianz haven't updated KisMac for long time I decided to build the latest version from their SVN server. KisMac 0.2a Checkout 40 Read More... Posted Sonntag, 21. November 2004 19:53 by rl | 1 Comments Filed under: KisMac, Apple, Mac OS X

• Using T-Mobile Multimedia Net Card UMTS/GPRS on Mac OS X

  There are two ways of using the T-Mobile Multimedia Net Card on Mac. You can either download (and pay for) Mobile High Speed 3G which requries you to reboot during the installation or you use my modem script. You need to download the modem script to the Read More... Posted Sonntag, 21. November 2004 16:02 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, UMTS, Mac OS X

• Firefox 1.0 with middle-mouse patch

  For those using an external three button mouse on Mac I just compiled Firefox 1.0 with middle-mouse applied. You can choose between two versions: Firefox 1.0 G4 optimized Firefox 1.0 Read More... Posted Sonntag, 21. November 2004 15:21 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Firefox, Exposé, Mozilla, Mac OS X

• Fixing "iSync couldn't connect to Exchange" error on Panther

  When you set up Address Book to synchronize your contacts with Exchange hourly you probably know the "iSync couldn't connect to Exchange - Could not reach the server specified." for example when you are using your powerbook on the way. I put a small shell Read More... Posted Sonntag, 5. September 2004 18:38 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Microsoft, Panther, Exchange, iSync, Mac OS X

• Adium X with fancy contact list

  The upcoming 0.64 of Adium X introduces an all new contact list, which allows some really cool features. There are a few early screenshots on the Adium homepage that show almost all possibilities. You can grab my latest Adium X 0.64-pre build (checkout Read More... Posted Dienstag, 31. August 2004 11:42 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Adium, Mac OS X

• Hidden Exposé window fixed in Firefox and Mozilla

  Finally the Mozilla guys fixed the hidden window on Mac OS X 10.3 which appeared when activating the Exposé functionality. I made a build (hope it works for you) from the latest CVS checkout with the middle-mouse patch applied, which fixes middle-mouse Read More... Posted Dienstag, 31. August 2004 10:49 by rl | 0 Comments Filed under: Apple, Firefox, Exposé, Mozilla, Mac OS X