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Boot Mac mini G4 from USB

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Don’t know why but my Tiger’s DVD won’t load in my Mac mini PowerPC G4… Hopefully, I can read it from another DVD drive, namely my MacBook Pro’s one. Here’s how I booted the mini from a USB key to reinstall Mac OS X.

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Prevent .DS_Store on remote filesystems

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Just a quick link to an Apple’s article which explains how to disable .DS_Store creation on remote filesystems.

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How to view japanese characters

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If you want to read and/or write japanese characters on your western computer, you have to install the right fonts. Here’s what to do on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

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Firefox as default Web browser on Mac OS X

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It’s been a few weeks that Safari bugs me… It’s damn slow when starting (with 5 tabs), when a tabs reloading I can’t use any of the other… I don’t know exactly what happens but even last update (v5.0.4) doesn’t solve anything. I thought it might be my installation but Firefox has no issue at all. So it’s time to make Firefox my default OS X web browser.

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OSX doesn't like CNAME to .local. domain...

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Looks like OSX doesn’t like CNAMEs pointing to local. DNS entries…

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