The Laptop That Kept Falling Asleep
My Mac mini kept reporting the M5 laptop as offline. The culprit was one tiny power setting, and the fix came with Wake-on-LAN and a smart plug.
2210, 2026
0507, 2026
Fun Fact About OS X Networking
Running Mac OS 26.5.2 I’ve been using WiFi mostly on my Mac mini. Decided to connect a LAN cable to experiment with network speed and get two simultaneous input vectors going, LAN and WiFi. (No multi NIC cards in the Mac mini) EX: Trying to use AirDrop / Bluetooth / WiFi while running a heavy LAN process through the wired
2704, 2020
Find your OS X Bluetooth Mac Address
Working with the new Bluetooth Sockets in Python 3.x you will need to determine the OS X Bluetooth Mac Address of your system. At a terminal command prompt type the following: networksetup -listallhardwareports You should see listings similar to the following: Hardware Port: Bluetooth PAN Device: en2 Ethernet Address: cc:44:88:25:66:d3 The Mac address in the “Ethernet Address” value, “cc:44:88:25:66:d3” in
2804, 2018
MacBook Pro SMC reset – Battery / Fan Issues
This is how to reset SMC on most modern Mac laptops, none of which have a removable battery: Shutdown your MacBook Air / MacBook Pro Connect the power adapter to the Mac On the MacBook / Pro’s keyboard, hold down the Shift+Control+Option keys and the Power button at the same time Release all keys and the power button at the
2504, 2018
Virtual Box – Change console window size
Identify the resolution that your VirtualBox environment supports. Reboot the system and keep the Shift key till the grub windows appears then hit c. This will drop you into the grub console. Enter the commend vbeinfo to see a list of resolutions. Select the resolution that works for you (in my case, 1024x768x24). Edit /etc/default/grub to modify/create a line GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x24