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Force Ejection of a DVD or CD in Leopard
Make sure you have unmount the disc by right-clicking (ctrl-click) the disc icon and selecting Eject disc. Restart your computer. As soon as you hear the restart sound, hold the left mouse button down until the disc ejects. You can also use the bar beneath the trackpad and keep it pressed until the disc ejects.
POSSIBLE CAUSES OF SLOW INTERNET UNDER LEOPARD
• Use better faster DNS servers, like OpenDNS.org (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220). • Connect directly to DNS servers to avoid DNS forwarding through your router (acting as a DNS proxy). • Turn off IPv6 DNS lookups in Firefox/Camino (references: mozilla.org). • If DNS forwarding is required, change the DNS servers directly on the router. • Update your [...]
How to triple boot
We start by installing Leopard in the whole hard disk. Then we install rEFIt. To be sure that it was installed roperly and it is activated, we open terminal kai write: cd /efi/refit ./enable.sh Then Finder –> Applications –> Utilities –> Boot Camp Assistant and we choose the partition for our Windows installation. Many people [...]
Download stuff from Safari
For Quicktime movies and MP3 files, open up the Activity Window and locate the file. It should be a relatively large file with something like a .mov, .mpg or .mp3 file extension. Once you have found it, simply hold Option and double-click on it. Alternatively, pressing Option-Return will download whatever item is selected in the [...]
Linux User’s Guide to Mac: Terminal
Few things in Unix match the importance of the terminal emulator. Having a nice GUI is fine, but nothing beats the command line, which some have said is the “front line” of computing. As an official member of the Brotherhood of the Commandline, I have always kept at least one terminal window open at all [...]
MAC OSX Leopard keyboard shortcuts
1 Cmd-C Copy files 2 Cmd-V Paste files 3 Option-Drag Copy files to new location 4 Cmd-Drag Move and auto-align icons 5 Cmd-Delete Delete 6 Cmd-Option-Drag Make alias 7 Cmd-Shift-Delete Empty trash 8 Cmd-Shift-Option-Delete Empty trash without warning 9 Tab Select next field 10 Shift-Tab Select previous field 11 Return Perform default action 12 Escape [...]