With the deluge of people complaining about the X11 update and OpenOffice.org not starting, I posted a news article detailing a quick workaround to get OpenOffice.org running again. It should be noted that the next release of (and current development builds) are not affected by the problematic fonts as there has been a change in… Continue reading Workaround for X11 not launching posted on Mac Porting Web Site
Category: Apple
Apple’s X11 update
Apple released an X11 update on 1 November 2006. It fixes a but that I commented about, regarding the cmd+tab and the X11 windows not coming forward. On the other hand there appears to be an issue with the fonts in that build. This seems to affect the current official release of OpenOffice.org on the… Continue reading Apple’s X11 update
Photos from my trip to France (OpenOffice.org conference and Apple Expo)
Please take a look at http://www.byphotos.com/album/4050544 which contains all the photos from my trip. I know some of them have not been rotated. It was the first time I can remember being in London. Over a decade ago I had been round the M25 on the way to Dover, it was so long ago, I… Continue reading Photos from my trip to France (OpenOffice.org conference and Apple Expo)
OOoCon2006 and Apple Expo
It was quite some trip to France, considering my rather minimal French knowledge. I survived even with the communication barrier. I also found it quite a tiresome journey too, especially with getting very little sleep on the coach overnight from Edinburgh to London. I sorted it out for the return by taking a fleece on… Continue reading OOoCon2006 and Apple Expo
Random Shutdown on my MacBook
I’ve sent my MacBook away to Apple to be repaired as it now has the random shutdown problem. It took nearly 30 minutes on the phone to AppleCare to get the empty box sent out by UPS. The guy from UPS took it away straight away and was happy enough to stand there while I… Continue reading Random Shutdown on my MacBook
Recent confusion of OpenOffice.org (X11)
From the mac@porting.openoffice.org mailing list, there seems to have been a bit of confusion with the title “OpenOffice.org for Mac (X11)”. It would appear that people are thinking the Mac OS 11 is what the download is for. In fact it just references the fact that the X11 windowing system. It would appear that this… Continue reading Recent confusion of OpenOffice.org (X11)
Dell 4 million battery recall
It would appear that Dell is getting a lot of publicity about the 4 million laptop batteries that are being recalled. OK I’m not going to say that Apple is perfect, though it would appear that it took Dell quite some time to acknowledge the issue. Well over a year!
Copying a file from one drive to another is that simple on Mac OS X
I couldn’t believe it that simply pressing the command key on moving a file to another drive will move it rather than delete it.
web quotes in Safari UK
It’s nice to see some more features filtering through to the localisedversions of Google Mail! Today I noticed web quotes at the top of themail browser. 🙂
Two Weeks and had to re-install OS on MacBook
Today I came accross a nice little problem on my MacBook that I have only had for 2 weeks. I had a bit of a crash and oh dear, I could no longer launch application after a Safari hang. On reboot, it just hung. So I ended up doing an archive and install, with no ability… Continue reading Two Weeks and had to re-install OS on MacBook