Common Tips And Tricks [ Hackintosh ]

Use any USB printer driver

[edit]Get disk burning to work with non-Apple drives

[edit]Replace SSE3 with SSE2 Patch (In other words stop Safari from crashing and make iTunes work along with other apps)

1. Burn CD or simply mount it in your Mac OS X system

2. Open Terminal.app

3. Use "cd" command to get into the CD, e.g. "cd /Volumes/MAXXUSS0.5/"

4. Type "sudo ./install.sh"

5. Follow the instructions

6. Restart Mac OS X

7. Enjoy.

[edit]Fixing Browser Plug-in Issues

[edit]Deadmoo's password

[edit]Deadmoo's root password

[edit]Console Login from within OSX

[edit]Getting Safari to work

[edit]Recover from application crashes

[edit]Messing with the boot options

This page has some info: http://neonkoala.co.uk/content/view/33/34

work fine for me, I use <string>rd=disk1s3</string> to boot from the 3rd primary partition of my second disk.

[edit]Xcode and developer tools 2.2 preview 1

[edit]Make the CTRL Key the COMMAND key

• http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/download.html - Doublecomand will help you change and swap your keys around so they work with your windows keyboard

[edit]Hard Drive Configuration

[edit]Messing With Drivers

• Here is the command to make them load:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/SomeDriver.kext   

• To unload, use:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/SomeDriver.kext   

• For more information about the loaded kext's, use:

sudo kextstat

• If it still won't load, type this:

sudo su
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/SomeDriver.kext 
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/SomeDriver.kext .

[edit]Drivers/Kernel extensions, which ones are loaded?

kextfind -case-insensitive -bundle-id -substring 'com.apple.' -print | more

kextfind -loaded -bundle-id -i -s 'com.apple.' -print | more

[edit]Copy a Mac OS X partition

dd if=/dev/source_partition of=/dev/destination_partition bs=512

[edit]British keyboards

[edit]Fixing the restart function

cd /
sudo -s
cp mach_kernel mach_kernel.backup
printf '\260\376\346\144' | dd if=/dev/stdin of=mach_kernel bs=1 count=4 oseek=578235 conv=notrunc

[edit]Use Localtime instead of Universal for RTC

date `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`

date -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`

date -u `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`

date -u -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`

#!/bin/sh

to_utc() {
echo "localtime-toggle: Toggling to UTC."
date -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`
}

to_localtime() {
echo "localtime-toggle: Toggling to localtime."
date -u -f %m%d%H%M%Y `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`
}

trap 'to_localtime; exit' term
to_utc
{ while true; do sleep 86400; done; } &
wait

chmod +x /sbin/localtime-toggle

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Label</key>
   <string>org.osx86.localtime-toggle</string>
   <key>Program</key>
   <string>/sbin/localtime-toggle</string>
   <key>KeepAlive</key>
   <true/>
   <key>RunAtLoad</key>
   <true/>
   <key>HopefullyExitsFirst</key>
   <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001

w32tm /resync
 exit

30
 C:\XP-Mac Time Sync\timesync.bat

ping /n X localhost

[edit]Install the system on a bootable USB key

[edit]Install from USB key

[edit]No driver for your device? Try patching the kext files

[edit]Autoplay DVD with VLC

activate application "VLC"
tell application "Finder" to set frontmost of process "VLC" to true
tell application "System Events" to click menu item "Open Disc..." of menu of menu bar item "File" of menu bar of process "VLC"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "VLC"
  keystroke return
end tell
tell application "VLC"
  fullscreen
  next
end tell