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SSD Upgrade for Mac Pro 2008 (upgrade to 6 GBit/s!)

ALTERNATIVE FOR MAC PRO 2009 and 2010: http://www.apricorn.com/products/desktop-ssd-hdd-upgrade-kits/velocity-solo-mac.html 1) Even though the mainboard of Mac Pro 2008 offers two unused SATA ports on the mainboard (hidden behind the big fan on the bottom front), those are still SATA II ports, so you’re not wanting to put a fast expensive SSD on those, because they will slow […]

How to spoof MAC address on Mac OSX

http://osxdaily.com/2008/01/17/how-to-spoof-your-mac-address-in-mac-os-x/ #!/bin/bash echo “changing mac to 11:22:33:44:55:66” #LAN #sudo ifconfig en0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 #Wifi #sudo airport -z sudo ifconfig en1 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66 # check ifconfig | grep en0

Make bootable USB disk (or USB stick) on OSX

Update: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.dmg linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.iso diskutil list sudo dd if=linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-32bit.dmg of=/dev/rdisk8 bs=1m If you get an error “device busy” go to disk util (GUI), select the partition on the USB drive and click “deactivate” …  after this it should be working … —— 1) Download the ISO image of the bootdisk (available […]

Qnap creating custom shares on external eSATA drive

When adding external eSATA drives to your qnap device, by default only one global share of the eSATA device is possible.  You may want to add multiple shares into subfolders on the external drive.  For this, simply edit /etc/smb.conf and change the path. The problem is that the admin tool will always create a samba […]

vmWare Fusion 4 & Windows 7 x64 SP1

Fastest network: Use Network BRIDGED mode (in our test: 60MB/sec), not NAT (30 MB/sec). Don’t use shared folders via vmWare to connect to a network (Mac connects to network and shares the folder to Windows == Slow!!).

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