As my Mac got upgraded to 8 GiB RAM, certain apps like VirtualBox was not able to use more than 4 GiB RAM.The obvious solution was to enable 64 bit kernel. Of-course the downside is, you’ll end up recompiling certain pieces of sofware.
sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture x86_64
the login shell can be changed by running following command as root or sudo:
chsh -s /path/to/your/shell username
Ensure that /path/to/your/shell exists in /etc/shells. Tested in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Link: mpd on OSX.
mpd + ncmpc/theremin == uber awesome music jukebox
Open a Terminal (under Utilities)
Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices
Insert your flash media
Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)
Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m . ( note the ‘r’ in the of part. Using rdisk speeds up transfers using dd ).
Run diskutil eject /dev/diskN and remove your flash media when the command completes.
Link: make ubuntu look and behave like OSX.
This guide is for people who wish/want/have an itch to make ubuntu look and behave like OSX.
