Re: Misc Questions...

On May 9, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> I have heard from various sources that 'Rosetta' the PPC emulator for Mac OSX is likely
> to go away with the release of "Lion" this summer.
> 


PPC support ended with leopard actually.  Rosetta goes away with Lion supposedly.

> On my main mac when I try to find the PPC binaries, I go to the System Profiler
> and select Software->Applications the response is that 'No information is available'.
> 
> I suspect root cause of the problem is that spotlight is broken on this particular
> mac ( The indexing process dumps core...Apple seemed to think that a corrupted file
> was the cause but offered no hints on how to find the 'bad files'.
> 
> 1) Is there any other way to see which apps are PPC? ( doing a get info on at least
> 150 apps seems sorta painful...

Well when running they will state, not sure otherwise.

> 
> I know RapidSVN is PPC based, does anyone else know of a (free gui based) SVN client?

I tend to use the support built into xcode or bbedit,  most major editors support it now.  Not sure what clients exist otherwise.  Maybe  svnX is still around maybe?  

> 
> 2) I keep getting a request for a password from something that advertises itself
>   as a mobilesync client. This only seems to occur on one of the three macs I am
>   using. Does anyone know a way to stop this behavior?

it's for mobile.me syncing.  There was bug at one point with calendar sync.  What version of the OS are you running?

> 
> 3) Whenever I reboot one of my macs ( with an attached usb drive) I *always* get
> asked if I want to use the usb drive as a time machine destination. I answer 'never'
> but I use super duper to clone the drive five days a week...


> 
> Is there a file I can create on the mac that will prevent the asking when it gets
> copied to the usb drive via SuperDuper?
> 

This does it for all, or did when I did it ages ago.

defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES 

--Larry