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If you’re here, you’ve probably on a Macbook Pro, you’ve tried the AMD/ATI utility that’s supposed to auto-detect your GPU (which refused to work), and tried the standalone mobility installer (which only installed CCC but left your old drivers). In desperation, you might’ve tried the desktop utility which was just as unsuccessful. In any case, [...]

Scroll down to the pictures if you want to get right to the fix. The Symptoms: The actual boot-up is pretty quick. As soon as you log in, it slows down to a crawl. The desktop takes forever to load after boot. Programs take forever to start immediately after boot. You may hear the hard [...]

If you have a hard drive from a Mac computer (or from a Hackintosh), toss it in a regular PC and decide to install Windows to the drive, you might get the following message: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style. The reason is because the [...]

If you need more screen real-estate (particularly if using a Netbook), you might want to reduce the size of your taskbar in Windows 7. It’s pretty easy to do: right-click on an empty area of the task bar choose “Properties” select the “Use small icons” checkbox click “Apply” The task bar will shrink. Program icons [...]

If you’ve installed Windows 7 on a netbook, you may have followed the Gizmodo Netbook Guide to do so through a USB memory stick. In the guide, it’s mentioned that during the install, when it reboots (the first time), you can opt to boot the installer again and run compact.exe on the drive through the [...]

Here’s the deal. I had a pretty low power machine with an i3, integrated video, etc. It’s life long dream was of course to be our new file server so that I could start shutting off my sauna-in-a-case rig that was serving files 24/7 while out-performing our home furnace in heat output. The i3 got [...]

After setting up users and groups in FreeNAS, I found that I wasn’t able to give any users write access. I could get guests to read. I could get users to read. I couldn’t get anyone to write. – For whatever reason, it took a few searches before I came across the mac section of [...]

While attempting to create a ZFS raid5 pool in FreeNAS, I had an issue where Size, Used, Free, Capacity, and Health all showed as UNKNOWN. In the configuration tab, the pool/virtual_device/dataset showed up under “current” but never under “detected”. Unfortunately there was absolutely zilch out there for information on this issue. 3 hours later…. (warning: [...]

For those installing FreeNAS to a USB drive, a common error message is as follows: gzip: stdout: Broken pip Error: Failed to dd image on ‘/dev/da0′ Unmount CDROM. There was a problem while copying files. Fortunately, the fix is easy. Step 1: Restart the computer WITHOUT the USB drive plugged in. Step 2: Let the [...]

The answer you’re most likely to get from most uneducated drones when asking this question goes something like this: There are significantly fewer Macs than Windows machines, so hackers don’t bother making viruses for them. Macs are just as insecure as Windows, they just don’t get targetted. This is of course, incorrect. Here’s the real [...]