Comments for mind the explanatory gap

Comment on Simple “Create Mobile User” utility. by John Morrissey

John Morrissey — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:56:50 +0000

I thought I was smart after answering the product question.

I need help migrating people off the Macintosh network home directory structure back to the local Macintosh. Any procedures anywhere? Thanks

Comment on Moving the hibernate image file on a MacBookPro… by nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:58:54 +0000

This is a better description of those numbers by the way:

# 0: disable hibernate
# 1: hibernate instantly on lid shut
# 3: hibernate when asleep and power removed (default)
# 5: hibernate instantly on lid shut and ensure decrypted swap
# 7: hibernate when asleep and power removed and ensure decrypted swap

From waht I understand, laptops were defaulting to 5 because secure VM didn’t work with hibernatemode initially, but this was later fixed, so 5 and 7 are actually more insecure modes.

I haven’t tested moving the hibernatefile since I first wrote this post over 3 years ago :) so it’s entirely possible it was broken at some point since then, but it was working for me in those heady days of 2006, when Justin Timberlake was Sexyback.

Comment on Moving the hibernate image file on a MacBookPro… by nik

nik — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:56:50 +0000

So yeah, I tried this, doesn’t work on my MacBook Pro. The system goes into hibernation, and appears to write the hibernate file as far as I can tell, but when it tries to start from the hibernate file it crashes, then instantly restarts. The effect is one grey screen – when it tries to wake from hibernate – followed by a black screen as the system restarts and boots normally. This is on a 2009 unibody MacBook Pro 17″

Oh, well.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:27:25 +0000

Paul (and Ryan for Snow Leopard), you’re absolutely right. I hadn’t noticed this behaviour change in Snow Leopard.

If you’ve set an MCX control to require a screensaver password, the setting you get in Snow Leopard is that a password is required immediately after screensaver or display sleep.

Unfortunately we can’t customize the Ctrl+Shift+Eject keyboard shortcut, which is a bit annoying. We like to have a standard keystroke across platforms to lock the screen.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:24:14 +0000

Look in the Keyboard section of System Preferences. You can assign hotkeys to Services there.

You do need to make sure you’ve saved it as a Service.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by Fraser Smith

Fraser Smith — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:55:40 +0000

Sorry to sound dumb but how do you assign a hotkey to the workflow.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by Paul Lathrop

Paul Lathrop — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:56:44 +0000

Hey Nigel,

I think Snow Leopard addressed the few second ‘grace period’ for screen locking; I just tried Ctrl+Shift+Eject and it was instantly locked.

Just FYI.

–Paul

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:32 +0000

And before anyone brings it up, yes you can activate the Keychain Access menu item that allows you to lock the screen using the mouse.

a) It’s using the mouse
b) I dislike cluttering up my menu bar due to living on 13″ laptops fairly regularly.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:54:24 +0000

It’s not the same though Ryan.

Test it.

Hit the key combo you mention.

Wait a few seconds, wiggle the mouse cursor.

The screen reappears without requiring a password.

Comment on Finally… a sanctioned way of activating the screen saver. by Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:50:59 +0000

You can also use Ctrl+Shift+Eject to immediately put the displays to sleep. If you have configured your computer to require a password to disable the screensaver, then when you move the mouse, the displays will wake and you’ll need to authenticate to access the system again.

Hope that helps!