Wake Up Your Mac Faster
december 2008 by bgporter
The innovation in Apple’s “Safe Sleep” is that it goes ahead and writes out the disk image, but then suspends to RAM. If you just resume, everything’s already in RAM and you can avoid the delay from resuming the image. If you lose power (or change battery), then it resumes from the disk image. By comparison, Windows offers both suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk, but not at the same time.
You can change the Mac’s hibernate behavior using pmset; here’s the reference for it:
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You can change the Mac’s hibernate behavior using pmset; here’s the reference for it:
december 2008 by bgporter
How to Use a Printer Attached to a Windows XP Computer in Mac OS X
march 2007 by bgporter
This document gives a detailed explanation of how to set up an HP DeskJet 722C printer that is attached to a Windows XP computer so that the printer can be used by a Mac OS X computer on a local area network (LAN). If your printer is slightly different, o
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