Read the rest of this entry »So, I was happily copying files around on my Windows Home Server, when I noticed that the speed of the transfers were now at 1.5MB/s… Uncool, when copying similar files from the same directories was at 50-80MB/s minutes earlier. […] I finally found a solution. Disconnecting the SATA data cable from the first SATA port on the motherboard (where it was always connected), and connecting that same cable into the last SATA port.
Archive for the ‘Technical Problems’ Category
Fix a suddenly very slow SATA hard drive problem
Thursday, November 26th, 2009TV Forecast widget not working? Here’s how to fix it.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »TV Forecast is a nice widget that Matt Comi created. You tell it what TV shows you watch, and it will keep track of the upcoming episodes for those shows.
The only down side to that widget is that it data-scrape TV.com to get its data.
Not only is this illegal, but it also tends to break the widget every time TV.com change their layout in any way.Getting tired of that, I decided to open the widget’s code, and change the data source to something more stable: TheTVDB.com
How to fix non-working Folder Action on an external hard disk
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »I had a problem with Folder Actions: they always stopped working after a while! Quite annoying.
FrontRow Enabler for 10.4.8
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Ok. So I wanted to install FrontRow 1.3 on my old PowerMac G5… Downloaded FrontRow Enabler 1.3, followed instructions, rebooted… And bam, no more login screen. How fun. Checking the comments on Andrew Escobar’s page, I realized 10.4.8 wasn’t supported just yet.
Here’s how I fixed it.
