Unanswered Questions
10,651 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to run a raw-disk Virtualbox VM when using UEFI?
I have a dual-boot setup on my computer with Windows 10 and Linux (Arch, if relevant). I'm trying to virtualize my on-disk Linux install in Windows (and plan on doing the opposite direction once I ...
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How can I diagnose why my launchd task isn't running on schedule?
I've read the launchd.plist man page, Is launchd supposed to pick up "missed" events?, and launchd seems ignore StartCalendarInterval on Yosemite but none of those have allowed me to ...
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Highlighting tool overlap with multiple lines in Mac Preview on Yosemite
I updated to Yosemite on my MacBook Pro. When I try to highlight two lines of text on Preview, the highlight overlaps, which looks really horrible. Is there a way to control the height (size) of the ...
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Unintentional vi mode in iTerm on Mac?
I occasionally find that while working in iTerm the default Readline key bindings are replaced with the vi keybindings.
For example, I will try to go to the beginning of the line with ctrl-a, and ...
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VBoxManage: error: Cannot read the partition information from '/dev/disk0'
I'm trying to make a partition .vmdk file for Virtual Box. Basically I want to boot my bootcamp partition box up in Virtual Box. But I get the following error when I try to make the .vmdk file
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Weird rendering artefact in vim (terminal, not MacVim)
Running Mac OS X, using either Terminal.app or iTerm2, there is a strange artefact with the character rendering that I have a hard time explaining and an even harder time understanding. I'll start ...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Enable SMB file sharing on OS X - "Incorrect Password"
I have a Mac running Snow Leopard connected to an Active Directory domain. I can share folders on the Mac and view files from Windows without problems.
When I try to enable my Mac account for write ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
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Upload file via URL
I'm a recent Mac convert. In Windows when I wanted to upload a file to a website I could do this (see the URL in the File Name text field):
However there's no way to do that in the upload dialog for ...
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How can I swap the usage of the 'fn' key for my Razer Blackwidow on OSX?
I just bought the Razer Blackwidow 2013 keyboard, and after installing drivers (Synapse 2.0) I run into a strange issue:
My function keys started to work very strange. They started to use their "...
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How can I switch tty on a Mac (equivalent of chvt in Linux)?
Is there a way to switch between different tty from a Mac terminal? This would be an equivalent to the chvt command on Linux.
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mounting share on Mojave says No such file or directory
I am trying to mount a share on Mojave 10.14.3 for Mac mini distribution point hosted on VM Windows Server 2008 R2 using the following command :
mount_smbfs -f 0755 -d 0755 smb://username:pwd@...
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Why is Chrome on OSX resizing the window when the autohidden menu bar is shown/hovered instead of overlapping it?
I'm on Mojave and Chrome 69.
When an app is in fullscreen mode and I move my mouse towards the top of the screen causing the Apple menu bar to display, it overlaps the current app for the duration ...
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Option as meta key EVERYWHERE?
I can set this option in the Terminal app, but I'd like to do this in other apps as well.
Surprisingly, most apps support a subset of emacs commands, but anything related to the meta key ends up as ...
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