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Little bits of technical documentation and such. Hopefully helpful.

2012-12-22

My 2007-era MacBookPro3,1 doesn't fully go to sleep / cannot wake from sleep with 10.8!

Yep, I had a reason to break out my old MBP and install the newest version of OS X on it. It works wonderfully for a five year old box (the SSD sure helps!), except for not being able to sleep properly. What worked for me was disabling "safe sleep" a la this hint.

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false

Then restart. You can also remove /private/var/vm/sleepimage to save some space, which is nice.

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2012-02-08

Offline Wikipeda on Mac OS X

Use WikiTaxi through Wine.

1. Install Homebrew.
2. brew install --use-gcc wine
3. Prefix the WikiTaxi binaries with wine, e.g., wine WikiTaxi_Importer.exe, and otherwise follow the instructions on the WikiTaxi page.

It's not the prettiest solution, but it works quite well.

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2010-08-25

Compiling for older versions of Mac OS X

In preparation for a pending semi-major release of unpkg, I needed to compile some source for other architectures and older versions of Mac OS X on my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro. After quite some time DuckDuckGoing and wrestling with gcc, I came across these combinations of environment variables that seem to do the trick. (The following, of course, require the appropriate 10.4 and 10.5 SDKs to be installed in /Developer/SDKs.)

10.4 and PowerPC

CC="gcc-4.0 -arch ppc" \
CXX="g++-4.0 -arch ppc" \
CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.4" \
CPPFLAGS="-DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=1040 -nostdinc \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.0.1/include \
-isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 \
-L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" \
./configure --build=`uname -p`-apple-darwin --host=powerpc-apple-darwin

10.4 and i386

CC="gcc-4.0 -arch i386" \
CXX="g++-4.0 -arch i386" \
CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.4" \
CPPFLAGS="-DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=1040 -nostdinc \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.0.1/include \
-isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 \
-L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" \
./configure

10.5 and x86_64 -- the 10.4 gcc-4.0 can't compile for x86_64, so we have to use 10.5 instead.

CC="gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
CXX="g++-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.5" \
CPPFLAGS="-DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=1050 -nostdinc \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/include \
-isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 \
-L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib \
-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks \
-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk" \
./configure

Then combine the binaries, like so: lipo foo-i386 foo-ppc foo-x86_64 -output foo-fat -create.

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2009-12-28

Using SheepShaver on Mac OS X

Build as listed on the website. Video uses X and audio goes through CoreAudio, so you don't need SDL. A few other bits of information, though:

• For working keyboard shortcuts, disable "Enable key equivalents under X11" in X11.app.
• For sound output, select "Built-in" in the Sound control panel.
• Launch with this command:
  ./SheepShaver --rom /wherever/macos.rom --disk /wherever/harddrive.img --frameskip 0 --ramsize 268435456 --ignoresegv true --ignoreillegal true --ether slirp --idlewait true --keycodes true --keycodefile keycodes
  This gives you working ethernet, keyboard shortcuts, smooth video, 256MB of RAM, and better stability through ignoring SEGV and illegal instructions.

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2009-08-25

Yet Another MSI Wind Hackintosh Tutorial

Just contributing my method. General outline: install OSX on an external drive from a MacBook, then copy the installation to the internal Wind drive.

Requirements:

• MacBook
• Leopard DVD
• External HD / USB drive (I'm using a 320GB one -- anything that can hold an OSX installation should work)
• Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update
• Chameleon
• SuperDuper!
• CyberGreg's driver pack (google around)

Instructions:

1. Boot the MacBook from the Leopard DVD.
2. Partition the external drive, with a GUID scheme.
3. Reboot and install the 10.5.7 update (newest 10.5.8 doesn't have good support at time of writing), reboot.
4. Install CyberGreg's driver pack.
5. Install Chameleon on the external drive.
6. Boot the Wind from the external drive.
7. Use SuperDuper to copy the OSX installation to the interal drive.
8. Run Chameleon again on the interal drive.

Hurrah!

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