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How to use laptop i/o devices **transparently** for mac mini
I was thinking about getting a mac mini and have inevitably run into the question of how to make use of the thing that has integrated all the necessary IO devices, namely, the laptop. Googling "...
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Can you speed up windows 10 USB keyboard/mouse recognition
I have my Windows 10 PC and Mac from 2011 hooked up to a USB switcher (HERE) so I can work on both devices using only one keyboard.
I've noticed when switching from Mac to Windows 10, windows takes ~5 ...
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MultiBoot USB on mac
I have recently purchased the SanDisk dual Drive 512 GB from Amazon.
Basically I want my USB to do the following.
have a live system running of the following OSs:
macOS Catalina
Windows10 Pro
Linux ...
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Mouse sensitivity ignored when using HDMI KVM switch
I have a really weird issue a TESmart HDMI KVM switch. Because you don't want the mouse to be seen as plugged/unplugged every time you switch devices, it has a special USB input for your mouse and ...
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Mac running High Sierra getting notices to Upgrade to Mojave. Can I install to an external SSD instead of the host iMac?
I've got a 2013 iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. I keep getting notifications to upgrade to Mojave (which I don't want to do), but I would like to install Mojave onto an SSD for use in a laptop I ...
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How can I boot from a FreeDOS USB-Stick on an iMac?
I created a FreeDos USB-Stick using Rufus and a spare PC and im now trying to boot to it from an Mac but the Stick isn't shown at the boot device selection screen. Can somone please help me?
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mac usb flash drive unrecognized in disk utility, only shown in system report
After trying to install bootcamp I had an error. After this my USB drive is no longer recognized. It still appears in system report. If I connect it to Windows it tells me that the device is not ...
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Is it possible to forward requests from a Mac to a network adapter on an iPhone over USB?
I have a jailbroken iPhone, with a VPN running on a network adaptor utun1. Is it possible to, from a Macbook, over USB, use this network adaptor and tunnel all traffic through it?
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How to Force Refresh of MacOS USB MIDI Device Name Cache
I'm developing a USB MIDI device using a PIC32 and I need to change the USB name of the device without changing the Vendor ID (VID) or Product ID (PID) in the "USB Device Descriptor".
I'm using a ...
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Is it possible to forward a USB port from a Mac to a Windows PC?
So, I have a Mac mini int the cloud with MacStadium. I want to sideload a app from a app I made onto my iPhone, but I can't physically access the Mac. I control the Mac from a Windows PC using ...
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Does A Hard Drive's Read / Write Speed Affect The Speed Of A Data Wipe / Erase / Sanitise?
I have multiple hard drives that I need to test & Wipe. I have testing software (Drive DX) for my MacBook and I'm using Apple's built-in Disk Utility to wipe the drive to DOD 5220.22-M standard. I ...
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Kingston USB flash drive fails to eject. MacBook Pro, High Sierra
I use several Kingston 64GB flash drives. On occasion, they won't eject, even when every app is quit. Is there a sudo command to make a flash drive eject?
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USB stick that has Ubuntu Live not read by Mac
Background Task:
I created an Ubuntu Live USB stick, using start disk creator app of an Ubuntu machine that I borrowed. The Ubuntu version is the latest 18.04.2.
I would like to plug that USB into ...
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Mouse click doesn’t work after waking MacBook Pro 2018
I am using a MacBook Pro 2018 and I am connecting a USB mouse and USB keyboard with a USB hub.
If I enter sleep mode and and try to wake the system, the mouse click doesn’t seem to work. It just ...
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how to transfer an ISO onto USB from pc to mac?
Using my PC, I downloaded office for mac from my MSDN subscription, and it has been downloaded as an ISO:
How do we transfer this ISO onto a mac-formatted USB so that the mac is able to read this ISO ...
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