What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[B S Magnet]

Did you run ./mach package ? That will create the .dmg. If not, it looks like you are using the binary, but it's linked to the build tree. Hence the small size. You'll find the dmg in /obj_blah_blah/dist.

The packaging process might error out at the end. That's fine. The dmg will still be produced.

Edit: Due note that 64-bit builds lose the ability to use 32-bit plugins. (quicktime etc)

Cheers

Ah! I did not! I’ll do that right now.

[EDIT: That did the trick! As for losing 32-bit plug-in capability with a 64-bit build, I’m trying to get into the rhythm of building things from source as a general learning process and learning how to get better at figuring out why something isn’t working/configuring/building/etc. In the background, I’m letting the 32-bit build do its thing. I don’t come from a compsci background or work in software development, so the pressure to know this stuff for work-related stuff isn’t there, but I still want to learn anyhow.]

 

[MultiFinder17]

I've been going on a RAM upgrade spree, thanks to another forum member that I'm buying some 8GB DDR3 SODIMMs from. So far I've got the 27" iMac back in my office upgraded back to 32GB again. It had 32GB last school year when it was my main machine for the second semester, then got downgraded to 24 when I needed some of its RAM for its replacement. But now it's back at 32GB, if only because it bothers me to know that there's upgrade potential not being used 😆

I'm still amazed at how smoothly this machine runs Big Sur!

 

[joevt]

I did some test in Catalina, Mojave, Mavericks (EVGA Nvidia GTX 680 Mac Edition)
Catalina and Mojave uses macOS driver.
Mavericks uses Nvidia web driver.
Catalina doesn't support DisplayPort but the earlier OSs do.

I got DisplayPort working on my EVGA Nvidia GTX 680 Mac Edition in Catalina by modifying /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext/Contents/Info.plist
according to https://github.com/mayankk2308/purge-wrangler/issues/48

 

[mortlocli]

Finished my race track withe three F1 cars today.
ok - so I used the printer connected to my iMac 5,1 to print out the components.

 

[Amethyst1]

My recently acquired 2007 17" MBP came in today, so I put in an SSD [240GB Crucial BX500] and decided to put my recently acquired Thunderbolt Dock to the test:

The 2011 13" MBP connects to the Dock via Thunderbolt 1, from there it connects to the 2007 MBP in Target Disk Mode via FireWire 800 (I realise using the 2011 MBP's built-in FireWire 800 bus might be faster but the point is to run everything via the Dock) and to an external hard drive, holding an installed, updated and ready-to-restore copy of every version of OS X from 10.2.8 to 10.14.6, via USB 3.0 (which the 2011 MBP doesn't have in the first place).

I set up the 17"'s SSD as four equally-sized partitions for Tiger, Snow Leopard, Mavericks and El Capitan (which is the max). I considered giving Mountain Lion a fifth partition but the truth is I see very little reason to run it over Mavericks on this particular machine.

 

[B S Magnet]

My recently acquired 2007 17" MBP came in today, so I put in an SSD [240GB Crucial BX500] and decided to put my recently acquired Thunderbolt Dock to the test:

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The 2011 13" MBP connects to the Dock via Thunderbolt 1, from there it connects to the 2007 MBP in Target Disk Mode via FireWire 800 (I realise using the 2011 MBP's built-in FireWire 800 bus might be faster but the point is to run everything via the Dock) and to an external hard drive, holding an installed, updated and ready-to-restore copy of every version of OS X from 10.2.8 to 10.14.6, via USB 3.0 (which the 2011 MBP doesn't have in the first place).

I set up the 17"'s SSD as four equally-sized partitions for Tiger, Snow Leopard, Mavericks and El Capitan (which is the max). I considered giving Mountain Lion a fifth partition but the truth is I see very little reason to run it over Mavericks on this particular machine.

Which 2011 version is that?

 

[Amethyst1]

Which 2011 version is that?

Early. 2.3 GHz i5-2415M; 8GB RAM; 240GB SanDisk Ultra II SSD.

 

[B S Magnet]

Early. 2.3 GHz i5-2415M; 8GB RAM; 240GB SanDisk Ultra II SSD.

Sounds virtually identical to mine, although the optical drive bay has almost always been a second HDD.

 

[Amethyst1]

Sounds virtually identical to mine, although the optical drive bay has almost always been a second HDD.

Sometimes I wonder whether I should have gone with the 2.7 GHz i7-2620M… Still only a dual-core though.

 

[eyoungren]

I amused myself for all of two or three minutes by taking the wallpaper I use for one of my 30" Cinema Displays and 24" Cinema Displays and copied them over to the work MBP.

Then I changed the wallpaper. So now, whenever I switch Macs between displays I see the exact same wallpaper on both!



Amazing!

 

[Heindijs]

Today I installed a 1TB SSD in my late 2006 iMac. It’s one of those newer Samsung 870 QVO drives. I used to have a 1TB HDD installed for years but it wasn’t ideal due to the fact that the previous owner of my iMac had broken off the brackets and so the HDD couldn’t be held in place properly. It often rubbed against the PSU which prevented the Mac from booting.
So I installed a 250GB SSD I had lying around. Well that quickly filled up 🙄. Even though I have an external 6TB hdd connected to the iMac for bigger files such as videos, I still often save other junk to my internal drive.
I was surprised to see how much SSD’s have come down in price! I think that 250GB drive cost about the same as that new 1TB model when it was bought in around 2014.

Currently reinstalling everything. I don’t use Time Machine because I’ve never needed it.

 

[uller6]

So now, whenever I switch Macs between displays I see the exact same wallpaper on both!

I tried doing this but it was too confusing because I use screen sharing to work on remote macs. I could never remember which window was which computer! Now mine all have tweaks on the same theme so I can tell them apart.

 

[Amethyst1]

Thunderbolt TDM is teh new FireWire TDM

The MBP on the right has a ridiculously fast PCIe SSD - so let's see how fast we can pull data over fancy-schmancy TB TDM.

Yeah, that's... slow as molasses.

 

[eyoungren]

I tried doing this but it was too confusing because I use screen sharing to work on remote macs. I could never remember which window was which computer! Now mine all have tweaks on the same theme so I can tell them apart.

I made the mistake once of trying to view the screens of the first Mac on my KVM switch while using the second Mac on the switch. Because the first Mac was not receiving signal from the KVM it assumed it had lost two displays so the other screens (and screen sharing) flipped out. I was forced to restore signal to the first Mac and then reboot it.

Won't do that again, LOL!

 

[joevt]

Thunderbolt TDM is teh new FireWire TDM

The MBP on the right has a ridiculously fast PCIe SSD - so let's see how fast we can pull data over fancy-schmancy TB TDM.

Yeah, that's... slow as molasses.

What version of Thunderbolt? If 2011 MacBook Pro, then it's Thunderbolt 1.

At least it's faster than FireWire 800 by a lot. Those numbers are similar to USB 3.0. You are getting approximately 50% of Thunderbolt 1 which I think is not too bad.

Let's not forget that TDM is running in EFI which I don't think has the most efficient I/O speeds? But I've never seen benchmarks for EFI so I'm not sure what to expect.

 

[Amethyst1]

What version of Thunderbolt? If 2011 MacBook Pro, then it's Thunderbolt 1.

Yes, 2011 MBP with TB1.

At least it's faster than FireWire 800 by a lot. Those numbers are similar to USB 3.0. You are getting approximately 50% of Thunderbolt 1 which I think is not too bad.

That "slow as molasses" comment was meant as a joke. These numbers are fine really, but nowhere near the limits of TB1 - I'll try TCP/IP over TB1 next and see what I can get.

What do you reckon to these results, by the way?

 

[Heindijs]

Does anyone know anything about how to fix indexing in Lion? When I installed the new SSD in Lion, Spotlight indexing just keeps restarting. I had left it running overnight and during today with no luck. I've tried multiple 'solutions' from the internet, but none of them seem to work.

 

[eyoungren]

• Opened my Leopard Server VM on the Mac Pro (Parallels 14).

• Grabbed my copy of InDesign CS4 off disk, copied to VM

• Installed InDesign CS4 on Leopard Server VM

• Copied over my copy of Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign) for CS4 and installed to Plugins folder of IDCS4.

• Opened QuarkXPress 6.0 file for a Rolemaster Character Sheet I created in 2001 or so in InDesign CS4 using Q2ID.

• Saved out a IDCS4 document of the file.

• Opened IDCS4 document in InDesign CC 2020 and saved out a CC 2020 document.

I've now got a current ID file of this document. Have to go back in and clean up tabs because I have text overrun, but at least it isn't stuck in QuarkXPress any more.

PS: The last version of OS X that will run InDesign CS4 is High Sierra. It will not run on Mojave. Even on High Sierra though it will not show the content of a file so you can't do any document editing with it on High Sierra. Since my Mac Pro is on Mojave this is why I needed to do this using Parallels.

 

[eyoungren]

Does anyone know anything about how to fix indexing in Lion? When I installed the new SSD in Lion, Spotlight indexing just keeps restarting. I had left it running overnight and during today with no luck. I've tried multiple 'solutions' from the internet, but none of them seem to work.

No, but I can tell you what I'd try. Get Onyx for Lion. Use it to delete the Spotlight Index and then restart Spotlight with a new index.

 

[mortlocli]

Has anyone had experience running windows 7 or higher on an Imac 5,1 (the 17 inch one) ?

Im not keen on windows but theres a app and some hardware I would like but there aren't any Mac versions.

I know of bootcamp but Id prefer to install it on a external SSD ..so I can unplug it and be entirely windows free when I dont need it.

 

[Heindijs]

No, but I can tell you what I'd try. Get Onyx for Lion. Use it to delete the Spotlight Index and then restart Spotlight with a new index.

Thanks, but that doesn’t seem to do the trick. Could there be a file preventing Spotlight from indexing?
By the way, thanks for recommending Onyx, I’ve never heard of it and it’s really useful!

 

[eyoungren]

Thanks, but that doesn’t seem to do the trick. Could there be a file preventing Spotlight from indexing?
By the way, thanks for recommending Onyx, I’ve never heard of it and it’s really useful!

IDK. Usually deleting the spotlight files does the trick. You might do a Google search for deleting the index files and then deleting them manually (I forget where they are). You can use Onyx to turn off Spotlight first and then switch it back on after you delete them.

That usually solves any problem for me so I've never done any troubleshooting beyond that.

Onyx has been around since at least Jaguar I believe. At least that is where I came in and started using it. They have a version for every release - just make sure you install the correct one. It is indeed a useful tool.

 

[alex_free]

Just secured my retirement by buying a mid 2007 black MacBook (kidding because I’m never selling). Is this the Intel Clamshell?

 

[B S Magnet]

Just secured my retirement by buying a mid 2007 black MacBook (kidding because I’m never selling). Is this the Intel Clamshell?

Some folks are huge fans of the black MacBook, but I’ve never been big on the A1181 MacBooks, despite their well-earned reputation of running for practically forever.

I think the two biggest strikes working against them for me is the FW400 only FireWire support and the top case and display bezels getting frayed and calving away pieces of plastic over time. Or, somewhat related, all of the plastic within deteriorates and crumbles. Also, if there was a MacBook which could have benefited from a backlit keyboard option, it was definitely the black MacBook.

Some folks love the black MacBook and swear by them, and I will always nod my head to them the same way I’d want to be nodded to for loving the key lime clamshell iBook.

 

[Amethyst1]

Also, if there was a MacBook which could have benefited from a backlit keyboard option, it was definitely the black MacBook.

Now that you mention it - a BlackBook with a red keyboard backlight would be rad!