[by Silvarios] [from Power Mac G4 Sleep Issue]

I notice that my new Power Mac G4 has a peculiar sleep issue. If I put the Power Mac to sleep or if it goes to sleep after a period of inactivity, it wakes itself every four minutes. Like clockwork. No joke.

If I remember correctly, this issue predates the DVD burner install, not that I imagined it would have been the culprit anyway. It seems to only happen when I have the Power Mac connected to my MacBook via ethernet. The MacBook is set to share it’s Bluetooth internet connection via ethernet to the Power Mac. The connection is direct via a regular Cat5e patch cable. I turned off the “Wake for Ethernet network administrator access” option in the Energy Saver preferences on the Power Mac, yet the problem persists–every four minutes. No really, every four minutes. Who needs clocks when I can figure out how much time has passed by the sleep wake sleep cycle of the Power Mac? Again, this issue seems to only occur while the Power Mac is connected via ethernet to the MacBook. Any thoughts?

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[by Berger] [from Some Actual Apple Macintosh Questions]

On Firewire cases:

I’ve been through a number of external cases - both cheap and not so cheap - and have settled into a couple that work very well for the way I do business.

I go through a bunch of drives per year because I save all of my PSD build files for clients so I can re-purpose for other jobs. I like a tray system and this one from Stardom has worked well for me for the past couple of years. You can buy separate trays for SATA and IDE. I use both 400FW and 800FW/USB2 versions. About $100 for the 400 and $125 for the 800/USB. Trays have been $10 each through newegg, but they don’t carry them any more and I’ve seen them going fro about $22 on average. I bought about 15 trays within the last 2 years - they all work perfectly. I keep the loaded trays in my fire safe when I’m not accessing files.

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[by Silvarios] [from Hacking iSync to work with my Nokia 6086]

My new phone saga continues. I couldn’t figure out how to send my Address Book contacts to and from my Nokia 6086 and my MacBook. When I first configure the Bluetooth connection between the Nokia and my Mac I’m given two options:
1. Address Book
2. Internet Connection

The second options works great, but I never was able to grok the whole share Address Book info. Maybe I’m just dense. I can browse most of the directories on my phone from my Mac except for a few crucial spots, such as the Nokia’s Address Book. Big postitive note, just copied an episode of the Tech Night Owl Live to my phone’s new 2GB MicroSD card and it works great, well the process of copying the file went smoothly, but the Nokia’s media player is a bit lacking. I can’t seem to resume playback from the same spot after I answer a call and then hang up, fine for plenty of musical tracks, not so great when I’m somewhere in the middle of a two hour podcast.

Back to the Address Book syncing. iSync is not natively compatible with my Nokia 6086 cell phone, at least as of Mac OS 10.4.11, but when there’s the internet, there’s a way. Found three links right off the bat (thanks Google):
1. A somewhat lackluster review of the Nokia 6086 on some random person’s blog
2. Which linked me to a HowardForums post on how to hack my copy of iSync.
3. And finally this page which linked to a slightly different tactic in attaining iSync compatibility as option two did.

Sure, my phone graphic in iSync is wrong as I’m using some random Nokia phone graphic already included with iSync, but option three contains an image which will work fine once converted to tiff.

Nathan

Edit: I lost the actual link for my first “link three” and so you get the fourth way I found instead. Oops, then I forgot to add/fix links for number 3 and now that as well is fixed.

I used Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my MacBook’s drive before installing OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Instead of storing the data on my ocassionally flaky “Coolmax” 3.5″ enclosure (with non-flaky 500GB Maxtor drive), I chose to put the drive in my PowerMac G5 and clone in a machine-to-machine fashion using Firewire.

This is not a step-by-step, but rather just some thoughts I thought I’d pass on to those who may run into the same bumps I did with Carbon Copy Cloner:

On Mac OS

• enable Remote Login on the target machine
• mount the target machine’s volume

On CCC

• Target Disk -> Select a Target -> Remote Macintosh… here you must use a “.local” extension on your target machine’s name, for instance “G5.local”. “G5″ did not work for me.
• CCC creates an authentication certificate that you must install on both machines

Hope this helps!

Mac Rumors says we may see an updated MacBook tomorrow.

Apple’s Leopard update, however, has revealed drivers for the newer Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics chip. This is the successor to the Intel GMA 950 which currently resides in the existing MacBooks. This would suggest that the next MacBook will see an upgrade to the Santa Rosa chipset. This, however, remains speculative. The driver, however, appears functional and works when used on a PC laptop with the X3100 chipset.