Thursday, December 15, 2011
How to start gmail without the chat feature
How to start gmail without the chat feature
How to start gmail without chat...
https://mail.google.com/?chat=0
with chat...
https://mail.google.com/?chat=1
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To disable gmail chat via the url, use
https://mail.google.com?chat=off
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Can you shrink the sparse disk image of a Mac OS X guest OS in VMWare Fusion?
http://superuser.com/questions/325233/can-you-shrink-the-sparse-disk-image-of-a-mac-os-x-guest-os-in-vmware-fusion
In short: Erase free space on the guest OS’s disk from within the guest OS using Disk Utility, then shrink the guest OS’s disk from the host OS using vmware-vdiskmanager at the command line. In long: In the guest OS: Open Disk Utility. Select the guest OS’s partition. Go to the “Erase” tab. Click on the “Erase Free Space” button. Make sure “Zero Out Deleted Files” is selected, and erase the free space. Once it’s finished, close Disk Utility, and shut down the guest OS. In the host OS: Open Terminal, and type /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -k, followed by a space, and then the path to your guest OS’s virtual disk file. Hit return. The guest OS’s virtual disk file is found within its virtual machine file. E.g. if your virtual machine file is at /Users/you/VM, the path to its virtual disk is /Users/you/VM.vmwarevm/VM.vmdk.
In short: Erase free space on the guest OS’s disk from within the guest OS using Disk Utility, then shrink the guest OS’s disk from the host OS using vmware-vdiskmanager at the command line. In long: In the guest OS: Open Disk Utility. Select the guest OS’s partition. Go to the “Erase” tab. Click on the “Erase Free Space” button. Make sure “Zero Out Deleted Files” is selected, and erase the free space. Once it’s finished, close Disk Utility, and shut down the guest OS. In the host OS: Open Terminal, and type /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -k, followed by a space, and then the path to your guest OS’s virtual disk file. Hit return. The guest OS’s virtual disk file is found within its virtual machine file. E.g. if your virtual machine file is at /Users/you/VM, the path to its virtual disk is /Users/you/VM.vmwarevm/VM.vmdk.
Mac OS X Physical to Virtual (Mac OS X P2V)
How I can migrate physical Mac OS Server to virtual machine?
How I can migrate physical Mac OS Server to virtual machine? Article ID: 5403 Last Review: Jul, 29 2011 Views: APPLIES TO: Parallels Server 4.0 for Mac Parallels Server 3.0 for Mac Resolution To migrate physical machine running Mac OS X 10.x Server follow these steps: 1. Attach a USB external drive with size equivalent or more than your Mac Server hard drive. 2. Boot your physical Server from the Mac OS X installation CD. 3. When Install Mac OS X Server window appears go to Utilities menu and choose Disk Utility. 4. In Disk Utility choose your Mac server hard drive (not Macintosh HD). 5. Go to File -> New -> Disk Image from disk0xxx. 5. Under Save As specify the name for the image file. Under Where choose the external hard drive. 6. Then click Save and wait till the image is created. 7. Connect with Parallels Management Console to your Parallels Server for Mac where the resulting virtual machine should be stored. 8. In Parallels management Console (PMC) create a new Mac OS X Server virtual machine using the Mac OS X installation CD/DVD 9. After the new virtual machine is fully created attach the external hard drive with the image file to the Mac OS X virtual machine and copy that image file to the virtual machine hard drive. 10. Shut down the virtual machine and go to the Configuration menu (in PMC) -> Hardware .Click on + button and create the second Hard drive. 11. Start the virtual machine, open Disk Utility. Go to Restore tab. Under Source browse for the Mac OS X Image file (it is stored on the main hard drive). From the left column choose the second (newly created) Macintosh HD and drag and drop it into the Destination field. 12. Go to Images menu (on top of the mac screen) and choose Scan image for Restore. Wait till it is scanned. 13. Now click on the Restore button. wait till the image is restored to the chosen drive. 14. After restoring is complete please shut down the virtual machine. Go to Configuration menu -> Hardware and use - button to delete the first hard drive. 15. Start your virtual machine and check if physical Mac machine was deployed correctly.
How I can migrate physical Mac OS Server to virtual machine? Article ID: 5403 Last Review: Jul, 29 2011 Views: APPLIES TO: Parallels Server 4.0 for Mac Parallels Server 3.0 for Mac Resolution To migrate physical machine running Mac OS X 10.x Server follow these steps: 1. Attach a USB external drive with size equivalent or more than your Mac Server hard drive. 2. Boot your physical Server from the Mac OS X installation CD. 3. When Install Mac OS X Server window appears go to Utilities menu and choose Disk Utility. 4. In Disk Utility choose your Mac server hard drive (not Macintosh HD). 5. Go to File -> New -> Disk Image from disk0xxx. 5. Under Save As specify the name for the image file. Under Where choose the external hard drive. 6. Then click Save and wait till the image is created. 7. Connect with Parallels Management Console to your Parallels Server for Mac where the resulting virtual machine should be stored. 8. In Parallels management Console (PMC) create a new Mac OS X Server virtual machine using the Mac OS X installation CD/DVD 9. After the new virtual machine is fully created attach the external hard drive with the image file to the Mac OS X virtual machine and copy that image file to the virtual machine hard drive. 10. Shut down the virtual machine and go to the Configuration menu (in PMC) -> Hardware .Click on + button and create the second Hard drive. 11. Start the virtual machine, open Disk Utility. Go to Restore tab. Under Source browse for the Mac OS X Image file (it is stored on the main hard drive). From the left column choose the second (newly created) Macintosh HD and drag and drop it into the Destination field. 12. Go to Images menu (on top of the mac screen) and choose Scan image for Restore. Wait till it is scanned. 13. Now click on the Restore button. wait till the image is restored to the chosen drive. 14. After restoring is complete please shut down the virtual machine. Go to Configuration menu -> Hardware and use - button to delete the first hard drive. 15. Start your virtual machine and check if physical Mac machine was deployed correctly.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011 / Remove Office for Mac 2011
How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011
Remove Office for Mac 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/admin/item/5d6c825e-5322-4328-b04f-86e106cc4b52?category=1dbf952e-1f61-47f6-85fa-196a22eaf824
Remove Office for Mac 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/admin/item/5d6c825e-5322-4328-b04f-86e106cc4b52?category=1dbf952e-1f61-47f6-85fa-196a22eaf824
Apple Technical White Paper: Best Practices for Deploying & Managing Mac Computers with OS X Lion
Apple Technical White Paper
Best Practices for Deploying & Managing Mac Computers with OS X Lion
Retrieving Hardware Specific Lion Builds Often when new Mac models are released there is a period between hardware release and an OS X Lion update to include support for the new hardware. If you need to create deployment images for the hardware in the meantime you can download them. Perform the following steps on the Mac for which you need the image. 1. Boot from Lion Recovery by holding down Command-R at power on. 2. Plug in an external hard disk. 3. From the Lion Recovery tools window select Reinstall OS X Lion. 4. In the installer, target your external disk. The download will begin automatically. Apple Technical White Paper Lion Deployment Best Practices 5 5. When the installer asks to restart, simply shut down the Mac. 6. Locate the folder named “Mac OS X Install Data” on your external disk. Inside that folder you’ll find an ESDInstall.dmg file that is appropriate for that Mac. After you’ve downloaded the hardware-specific disk image you can use it with System Image Utility or other popular imaging tools.
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