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WinToGo 8.1 on rMBP mid 2012
This blog has detail instructions to install USB WinToGo for Mac. But things won’t go that smooth on pre-2013 rMBP. Firstly, diskpart from Windows cmd within Virtual Machine seems to have limitations, especially for Win8.1. Partitioning can work sometime but formatting will probably fail. Therefore, diskutil in Mac is the solution for disk handling. But another…
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Fix 10.11.4 mysterious trackpad reset problem after reboot
Just encountered a mysterious problem after upgraded to 10.11.4 that every time MBP reboots and logins, my trackpad settings like tap-to-click are lost. It’s mysterious because during the very beginning time after login it worked as normal, but a few minutes later trackpad settings were reset automatically. It also affected the Mac AirPlay to AppleTV which…
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Fix 10.11 key chain prompt with deny only
Just encounter a strange problem of key chain access. When prompting for access to credentials, the dialog can only be dismissed by Deny. In the console, “Ignoring user action since the dialog has received events from an untrusted source” was logged. According to this post, 10.11.1 contains a security patch to prevent synthetic clicks on keychain…
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Fix broken miredo in El Capitan
OSX 10.11 introduced System Integrity Protection feature protecting the /usr/sbin folder, which will break existing miredo functionality to connect teredo tunnels. Steps to fix it: Copy/move upgrade-migrated miredo command line tools from /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-XXX/QuarantineRoot/usr/sbin/ to /usr/local/sbin Edit /Library/LaunchDaemons/miredo.plist to use new /usr/local/sbin/miredo instead of /usr/sbin/miredo Re-enable miredo in prefpane Since El Capitan also force kernel driver signing, if your…