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Author Archives: Dae
How to load VirtIO storage drivers in Windows System Restore
If you need to load VirtIO block storage driver (aka viostor) in Windows System Restore (aka Windows Recovery Mode) to recover your Windows virtual machine, take the following steps. (Also please read my note below).
How to add an existing virtual disk to Proxmox
It’s trivial to create virtual disks in Proxmox, but what if you want to add an existing disk to a new virtual machine?
Windows not detecting unallocated space after extending virtual disk
You’ve extended a virtual disk in Vmware or Proxmox for a Windows virtual machine, but the disk appears the same size in Disk Management?
Sample AppleScript + Bash uninstaller
Should you ever need to write an uninstaller for your macOS app, feel free to base it on our project—written entirely in AppleScript and Bash: https://github.com/SmoothMouse/Uninstaller
Does Adobe Illustrator use CUDA or OpenCL for GPU acceleration?
Probably neither. If someone tells you otherwise, ask them to back up their claim.
macOS kernel programming bounty to revive SmoothMouse (PAUSED)
The discontinuation of SmoothMouse seems to have upset many people. Now that the pointer lag is fixed in the newer versions of macOS, I was hoping our users would find other 3rd party mouse drivers more useful for they provide more acceleration controls than … Continue reading
Beware, fraudsters: Chrono Informatique
I’ve been recently scammed by a French e-shop called Chrono Informatique (chrono-informatique.com) from Agen, France. They sold me a dead power supply for Synology NAS 2413+ and refused to refund after I sent it back, claiming that I opened and damaged it myself.
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A brief note on BizonBox 2 + GTX 980
BizonBox is a Thunderbolt enclosure for PCIe videocards, assembled by Russian company Bizon specialising in selling Hackintoshes and hardware upgrades for Macs. I had a chance to get my hands on one of these devices.
On macOS Sierra support and the future of SmoothMouse
⚠️ 2023 update: finally, macOS Sonoma has an option to disable pointer acceleration ⚠️ Long story short.
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XQuartz.pkg stalls at “verifying” in El Capitan
I don’t know why OS X El Capitan sometimes fails to verify XQuartz 2.7.9 package (the process just gets stuck despite “Allow apps downloaded from anywhere” on “Enabled”). What I know, however, is that you can still install it via Terminal as easy … Continue reading