Motorola SB5102 on TekSavvy

…works just fine. Bought one off CraigsList, after checking the serial number and MAC address with the online Rogers tech support rep to make sure it isn’t a blocked stolen rental. TekSavvy had no problem setting it up although the Rogers tech that came by the house for the ‘installation’ remarked he’s never seen a modem like this. Shock?

8 months ago  /  0 notes  /  Comments

Keyboard layout not changing after waking Mac OS up from sleep

I’m most certain this is a bug, but in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, if you have multiple keyboard layouts set up, you cannot change them at the login dialogue that shows up when waking up the computer from sleep or the screensaver.

That means, if you had a non-English layout selected before the computer locked up and you’ve got a password that uses English characters, you will not be able to log into the computer (restarting won’t work as the OS is smart enough to present you with the same login window once it loads).

I’ve looked online and haven’t found any suggestions, and the only solution I’ve come up with is the one the Apple support rep also suggested: booting from your OS X disc (put disc in, restart, hold Option when booting, select disc), and going to Utilities>Reset Password once loaded to reset the password for the user account.

9 months ago  /  24 notes  /  Comments

Spring 2011 CSC263 notes

This semester I made thorough use of the Wacom Bamboo tablet received for Christmas, particularly for note taking in most of the computer science courses. Here are the almost complete notes for the Spring 2011 CSC263 course with Sam Toueg (missing amortized analysis notes):

http://d.pr/8MZs

10 months ago  /  Notes  /  Comments

Activate the most recent versions of MacPorts

sudo port outdated | awk 'NR > 1 {print $1" @"$4}' | xargs -L 1 sudo port activate

Sometimes, things don’t go quite as expected with MacPorts, and you end up having to rollback to previous versions of libraries using port activate [portname] @[version] Then, after a while, you realize it didn’t really help, and you’d like to update all the ports back to the most recent versions. I didn’t find a built-in command to do that, and the above awk-ward piece should do the trick.

1 year ago  /  0 notes  /  Comments