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Is there a safe way to remove the limit (6?) of DVD region switching on the MacBook Pro? I'm a multi-region kind of guy and this 'feature' dives me nuts. On the interwebs I see many 'tools' that scare me...
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I have a Macbook Pro 13" (mid 2009) that has had a long time issues which seems to be getting worse.
Occasionally, I will go to wake the computer with the keyboard and can't wake it. The HDD spins up, the light on the front of the computer stops blinking, but as soon as it seems like the display…
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I'm unable to get static routes to persist a reboot on Mac OS 10.6.5. I've tried all of the methods prescribed in Google search results, and previous posts on this site. I've tried manually creating a launchd daemon, and used RouteSplit's launchd daemon to no avail. It's clear that the interface is…
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I'm unable to get static routes to persist a reboot on Mac OS 10.6.5. I've tried all of the methods prescribed in Google search results, and previous posts on this site. I've tried manually creating a launchd daemon, and used RouteSplit's launchd daemon to no avail. It's clear that the interface is…
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I'm unable to get static routes to persist a reboot on Mac OS 10.6.5. I've tried all of the methods prescribed in Google search results, and previous posts on this site. I've tried manually creating a launchd daemon, and used RouteSplit's launchd daemon to no avail. It's clear that the interface is…
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I've tried multiple temperature monitor and fan speed software on my Macbook Pro Unibody under Windows 7 64-bit RC. None of them can report the fan speed. Currently I'm using SpeedFan which reports the CPU temperature of each of the two cores, but is not able to detect or interface with the Fans.…
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I have installed Kubuntu 64bit on my MBP 7,1.
After installation I was going through following documentation (screen)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro7-1/Maverick#Screen
I am confused about line
/usr/bin/xcalib "/etc/xcalib/<insert name of profile here>"
which profile to put…
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Is there a way to enable horizontal scrolling on Windows installed on a bootcamp partition of MBP 13" Core 2 Duo, using a trackpad?
I had a look into the Boot Camp Control panel settings, but could not find a setting that suggested this.
I used the Boot Camp drivers that came with the MBP in the…
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I have a Macbook Pro with Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. I have serious problems with waking from sleep and not sure why. I have the default Balanced power plan selected.
Many times when I close the laptop and leave it for more than just a few minutes, when I open it back up, it does not awake…
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Is it possible to tweak settings so that the battery will only charge up to 90% -95% and then use power adapter to run ?
A friend told me he was able to set such limits on his non-mac PC so I was hoping there would be a way to do it. From reading I have done online it appears this is better than…
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I have a 2010 MBP with the 7200 rpm hard drive. I was copying a 2.1GB file, and noticed read/write speeds of around 20MB/s. Is that reasonable? Seems slow to me....
What is the proper way to benchmark a HD on OS X? Googling I see xbench, but that hasn't been updated in years. I also see some…
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