After upgrading OS X from Lion to Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro, I started having serious wifi problems. At first, I would loose my wifi connection once a day, and I could recover it only with a reboot. After trying many different solutions I found in blogs and forums about how to fix wifi problems […]
iSync disappeared in OS X Lion
I was really pissed when I realized that iSync had disappeared after upgrading to OS X Lion. Suddenly, I had no mean to synchronize my cellular phone with my computer. I find this type of attitude very rude from Apple. Well, by chance I did not really upgrade. In fact, I installed OS X Lion […]
Unable to turn on or off AirPort solved
Recently, I was unable anymore to turn off AirPort on my Macbook Pro. Other people reported having the same problem, and it seems related to Snow Leopard. Some people had the reverse problem: They were not able to turn on AirPort. Here is the solution that worked for me: Open the following folder: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration Delete these […]
What process is causing DISK I/O
Sometimes, there is a lot of activity on my Macbook Pro drive, and I would like to find out what is causing all these Disk I/O’s. I found this thread that can help: http://superuser.com/questions/89266/whats-causing-all-the-disk-activity-on-os-x There are two suggestions on that thread. Either using ‘iotop -C 5 12′ or using ‘fs_usage’. What I would like to […]