I was looking for some way to tell if a remote machine was idle from the commandline and I stumbled across this snippet on Mac OS X Hints.
ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | awk ‘/HIDIdleTime/ {print $NF/1000000000; exit}’
returns a time in seconds and fractions thereof, ie 4.00711
I’ve downloaded Apple’s Security Update 2010-001 for Snow Leopard, but when I try to install the package I get told that
Security Update 2010-001 can’t be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.
Anyone else having this problem?
TidBITs has a more in-depth report on the bug that causes the Snow Leopard Finder to report error-36 when copying files to shared drives. The article includes some Terminal instructions to work around the problem.
It seems that Daring Fireball and Fake Steve Jobs are expecting new product announcements in the next 3 hours, probably a new Macbook, Mac Minis with Snow Leopard Server, iMacs, and probably not a tablet. Reports from Apple’s financial update indicate the channel is being filled with some product, but they won’t say what. Macjournals opines that any updates would need to be announced within the next 21 days to be sufficiently available before the festive season.
It seems that Daring Fireball and Fake Steve Jobs are expecting new product announcements in the next 3 hours, probably a new Macbook, Mac Minis with Snow Leopard Server, iMacs, and probably not a tablet. Reports from Apple’s financial update indicate the channel is being filled with some product, but they won’t say what. Macjournals opines that any updates would need to be announced within the next 21 days to be sufficiently available before the festive season.
When you plug in an external hard drive that hasn’t been unmounted properly, Snow Leopard actually starts running fsck on it:
/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/Contents/Resources/../../../../../../sbin/fsck_hfs -y /dev/disk1s2
Of course, nowhere does it actually inform you it’s doing this, unless you hunt down the fsck process.
So what probably happens is you decide it’s not going to mount and yank the cable a couple of times to see if it’s something wrong, of course this just disconnects the drive in the process of the fsck, which is something I’d rather not do.
If you can’t get your copy of Parallels 4 working under Snow Leopard because it quits on launch you could try dropping into the Terminal and then doing
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s /Library/Parallels/Parallels\ Service.app/Contents/Frameworks/ParallelsVirtualizationSDK.framework/Versions/3.0/Libraries/libprl_sdk.dylib .
Worked for me!
Snow Leopard 10.6:
There were some 16593 viewers watching the ustream live stream.
MacRumors are providing MacRumorsLive, @macrumors on twitter, and a spoiler free keynote stream to notify you when the keynote video coverage is up (ie not live).
John C. Welch will be twittering the keynote for MacJournals magazines (MWJ, MDJ).
For Aussies, MacTalk are offering
Coverage starts at 2:30am Melbourne time (UTC/GMT+10) for all those up late with Swine Flu.
The Onion have an informative infographic comparing Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
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