Dr. Thiti Vacharasintopchai, ATSI-DX, CISA

This is a beautiful quote I heard during the AIT Alumni Annual Meeting at Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel last month: Joel Barker: Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Keywords: quotes , visions , business

I had a major trouble after installing a system extension on my Mac OS X 10.4.7 installation last night. After configuring and installing the extension called Callisto Build 008, the Mac OS X failed to boot on restart. The usual Apple screen showed up but after a while a nice error screen was presented demanding me to press the Power Button to shutdown the computer. I was so frustrated fearing that I need to format and reinstall the OS from scratch without having backed up my work data. I believe there must be a solution to this...that doesn't require me to reformat the hard drive. In Windows case, I can use the installation CD to access the hard drive and manually fix the problem. I'm expecting the same thing on Mac OS X -- to enter a command-line text interface and manually remove the offending system extension. I went ahead browsing my favorite Insanely Mac forum and found an interesting thread as a starting point. Here's my actual procedure to fix the problem: Use F...

I'm trying to switch my Java development platform from Windows XP to Mac OS X Tiger. Wondering how to colorize the Terminal screen, I spent some time googling. From the discussions at the end of this page: macosxhints.com - Add full ANSI color support to Terminal.app Here's a summary of how to enable it: With bash shell as default, simply add export TERM=xterm-color [I prefer this for Linux compatibility] or export TERM=dtterm in the ~/.profile (single-user) or /etc/profile (system-wide) Color terminal is enabled. Use ' ls -G ' (the -G enables color output) to test. Add alias ls='ls -G' in the profile file for convenience. Keywords: mac-os-x , unix , terminal , shell , tips