Category Apple OS X

Apple OS X

Fix Mac Pro Shutdowns / Crashes – Google Keystone Update Damaging File System

Today we’ll attempt to fix Mac Pro’s shutting down on their own or damage/corruption to the Mac OS X file system, if it started happening around the 24-25th of Sept 2019, you might be in luck. This is only happening…

theshell
September 25, 2019

Apple OS X

Install Homebrew – Mac OS Sierra / El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks

Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the box, available on your Mac. To install Homebrew is pretty…

theshell
February 12, 2017

Apple OS X

How to install htop – Mac OS Sierra / El Capitan / Yosemite / Mavericks

htop is an interactive processor viewer for Unix based systems. With the release of version 2.0 it went cross-platform. This tool is great to get a detailed view of which service is taxing the CPU as well as get memory…

theshell
February 12, 2017

Apple OS X

Hackintosh: ssdtPRGen.sh – Unknown Processor Model

We were recently experimenting with converting our Lenovo Y50-70 to a Hackintosh machine, we were in the process of setting up Mac OS Sierra when we ran into this error while configuring the states of the processor: Error: Unknown Processor…

theshell
February 12, 2017

Apple OS X

kernel panic … zone_init: kmem_suballoc failed “@/LIbrary/…” causing reboot loop

If you get this error while trying to install Mac OSX on your system then it means your RAM stick isn’t inserted into the correct RAM slot. You need to move at least one of the RAM sticks into slot…

theshell
December 21, 2015

Apple OS X

Find exact model of CPU – Apple OSX

This is pretty infuriating, with all the wax and polish you can’t find the exact mode of the CPU your Mac is equipped with. While this may not be a problem for most Mac owners out there, it sure was…

theshell
December 17, 2015

Apple OS X

Fix slow OS X El Capitan / macOS Sierra download speed

A lot of people, including us, have been getting really slow download speeds on the OS X El Capitan, or macOS Sierra, download. Chances are, the servers nearest to you are being seriously hammered, hence the slow download. An easy fix to this is…

theshell
November 7, 2015
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