As a.NET developer, I’ve spent most of my time coding on Windows machines. It’s only logical: Visual Studio is the richest development experience for building C# and VB.NET applications, and it only runs on Windowsright? When I joined Stormpath to work on our, I was handed a MacBook Pro and given an interesting challenge: can a Mac be an awesome.NET development platform? To my surprise, the answer is yes! I’ll share how I turned a MacBook Pro into the ultimate Visual Studio development machine. How to Run Visual Studio on a Mac Visual Studio doesn’t run natively on OS X, so my first step was to get Windows running on my MacBook Pro. (If you want an editor that does run natively, or might fit the bill). Nov 2, 2018 - This article introduces the features of Visual Studio for Mac. There are multiple options for running Windows on a Mac. Every Mac comes with Apple’s Boot Camp software, which helps you install Windows into a separate partition. To switch between OSes, you need to restart. Is a different animal: it runs Windows (or another guest OS) inside a virtual machine. This is convenient because you don’t have to restart your computer to switch over to Windows. Instead, Windows runs in an OS X application window. I found that a combination of both worked best for me. I installed Windows into a Boot Camp partition first, and then turned that partition into an active Parallels virtual machine. This way, I have the option of using Windows in the virtual machine, or restarting to run Windows natively at full speed. I was initially skeptical of the performance of a heavy application like Visual Studio running in a virtual machine. The option to restart to Windows via Boot Camp gave me a fallback in case Visual Studio was sluggish. There are some minor disadvantages to this method: you can’t pause the virtual machine or save it to a snapshot. A non-Boot Camp virtual machine doesn’t have these limitations. This guide will work regardless of what type of virtual machine you create. After three months of serious use, and some tweaks, I’ve been very impressed with Parallels’ performance. I haven’t needed to boot directly to Windows at all. (For comparison, my host machine is a 15” mid-2015 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB flash drive.) In the remainder of this guide, I’ll detail the steps I took to optimize both Parallels and Visual Studio to run at peak performance. Installing Windows With Boot Camp and Parallels This part’s easy. I followed to install Windows in a separate partition. Then, I installed Parallels and followed the to create a new virtual machine from the existing Boot Camp partition. Tweaking Parallels for Performance and Usability The Parallels team publishes on how to maximize the performance of your virtual machine. Here’s what I adopted: Virtual machine settings: • 2 virtual CPUs • 4096MB system memory • 256MB graphics memory Parallels options: • Optimization: Faster virtual machine, Adaptive hypervisor, Tune Windows for speed all turned on. • Sharing: Shared cloud, SmartMount, and Access Windows folders from Mac turned off, as I didn’t need these for my workflow. I experimented with both of Parallels’ presentation modes, Coherence and Full Screen. While it was cool to see my Windows apps side-by-side with OS X in Coherence mode, I found that the UI responsiveness (especially opening and closing windows and dialogs) felt sluggish. Because of this, I use Full Screen exclusively now. I have Windows full-screen on my external Thunderbolt display, and OS X on my laptop. If I need to use OS X on my large monitor, I can swipe the Magic Mouse to switch desktops.
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However, there may be times when in attempting to print to such printers, you see your print job spool to the device, but it then sits in your print queue with a small message that states something about the job being on hold with authentication required. When printing for the first time to a departmental print queue from any given computer, regardless of whether it is a departmental or personal machine, you may find that your print jobs have been paused and are listed with a message that says something like “Hold for Authentication” or “On Hold (Authentication required).” This means that you need to provide credentials to the print server before your print jobs will be allowed to be submitted. Sometimes, the authentication window will pop up by itself, but often it won't. Contents • • • • • Symptoms A message pops up when you try to print: “Hold for Authentication” or “On Hold (Authentication required).” Environment Mac or Linux Cause The print server needs your password in order to authenticate you the first time you print, and was unable to retrieve it automatically from your computer. Resolution • Open up the print queue on your computer. • Select the print job that is on hold. • Go to the Jobs menu, and choose Resume Job (on Macs) or Authenticate (on Linux). • In the dialog box that pops up, enter your UMICH credentials (username in the form 'UMROOT uniqname'). • Enable the checkbox next to Remember this password in my keychain (on Macs) or Remember password (on Linux). Additional notes If you don’t click the checkbox, the next time you submit a print job to this queue it will also be put on hold again and you will have to repeat these steps. Note that you will need to perform these steps for each and every queue that you print to for the first time. If you see this message when printing with Mobility Print This message can appear when printing from MacOS to print queues published with PaperCut Mobility Print if the user enters the wrong username or password. Pressing the refresh button gives the user a chance to reenter their credentials and, if the problem was due to an incorrect username or password, the job should go through with the correct credentials. The message can also appear if the Mobility print queue has enabled and the user has previously saved their credentials for printing in the Keychain. With credentials stored in the Keychain, the prompt for authentication won’t pop up, but if opened, the print queue window shows “Hold for authentication.” While annoying, this does prevent the more significant problem of a user accidentally saving their PaperCut credentials on a shared device. Disabling Per-Job authentication in Mobility Print prevents the above scenario, but won’t be practical if your users share devices and you want to prompt for credentials with each Mobility Print job. Alternatively, you open Keychain to delete the credentials in question, then cancel the job and retry. A rogue Mobility server The pickle in this case is that if a user has connected to a print queue from the Primary server and also somehow installed PaperCut and Mobility on their computer, then anyone in the office that sends jobs to this queue receives “Hold for Authentication” on their macOS device or incorrect name or password on their iOS device. For example, ABC Co. Has a Mobility print server that publishes printers to Alice, Bob, and Chuck. At one point, for whatever reason, Chuck installed PaperCut and Mobility on his computer and promptly forgot about it. QuantumZebra: Also wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to run non-Mac games on 10.6.8 (IE Baldur's Gate 2). I can't help with your System Shock 2 issue, I just bought it a couple days ago and haven't tried it yet. I would suggest emailing support. But for playing non-Mac games on 10.6.8, it is absolutely possible, I do it all the time. You just need to use Wine. You will want to get one of the 'wrapper' programs which makes installing and setting up a game in Wine much easier. Two that come to mind: Wineskin: PlayOnMac: I personally use PlayOnMac. A good site to check out is the Wine AppDB which contains user tests of tons of games under Wine and indicates how well they run. Though sometimes the tests are old and don't reflect the most recent versions of Wine. You can also purchase virtual machine software such as VM Ware Fusion, Parallels, etc. Which lets you run Windows within OS X without having to reboot into bootcamp. QuantumZebra: Hey all, I just downloaded System Shock 2 to my MacBook (2009) running 10.6.8. When I ran SS2, when the game loaded, all I saw was a giant pixelated poster from in the game, and then if I hit the movement keys, it shifted from blue/white screen, to weird colors, back to pixel poster. Essentially unuseable. Anyone had this issue? Also wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to run non-Mac games on 10.6.8 (IE Baldur's Gate 2). This is why System Shock 2 has Mac OS X 10.7.0 and higher as a minimum requirement.:D. CrowTRobo: I can't help with your System Shock 2 issue, I just bought it a couple days ago and haven't tried it yet. I would suggest emailing support. But for playing non-Mac games on 10.6.8, it is absolutely possible, I do it all the time. A quintessential list of the top 30 best games for Mac - strategy, casual. Required System Specifications – OS X 10.6.2; You'll need an Intel Core 2 Duo with a. You just need to use Wine. You will want to get one of the 'wrapper' programs which makes installing and setting up a game in Wine much easier. Two that come to mind: Wineskin: PlayOnMac: I personally use PlayOnMac. A good site to check out is the Wine AppDB which contains user tests of tons of games under Wine and indicates how well they run. Though sometimes the tests are old and don't reflect the most recent versions of Wine. You can also purchase virtual machine software such as VM Ware Fusion, Parallels, etc. Which lets you run Windows within OS X without having to reboot into bootcamp. Great info there. QuantumZebra: Hey all, I just downloaded System Shock 2 to my MacBook (2009) running 10.6.8. When I ran SS2, when the game loaded, all I saw was a giant pixelated poster from in the game, and then if I hit the movement keys, it shifted from blue/white screen, to weird colors, back to pixel poster. Essentially unuseable. Anyone had this issue? Also wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to run non-Mac games on 10.6.8 (IE Baldur's Gate 2). 'Caveat Emptor' applies here; to some extent I can't really sympathize fully as the system requirements are pretty clear in what the 'official' Mac version will run on. That being said, in the case of SS2 (and other games with PC and Mac versions on GOG), the PC requirements can be a hint that you *may* be able to run the game on your Mac by downloading and installing the PC version in Wineskin or CrossOver. I've posted some comprehensive tutorials on how to do just that. For example, my primary Mac right now is a 2 Ghz GMA 950 Core 2 Duo MacBook (10.6.8). According to the official system requirements for the Mac OS X version, I can't play GOG's Mac version of SS2. However, using Wineskin I created my own 'port' by installing the PC version of System Shock 2 (which according to the PC requirements should be able to run on my hardware) in a Wineskin wrapper. My own custom port works absolutely flawlessly at full 32-bit 1280x800 resolution in 10.6.8, on both a 64-bit Core 2 Duo MacBook, and on a 32-bit Core Duo MacBook, running Intel integrated GMA 950 graphics. I can also play the game out of the box on the same settings, perfectly, in CrossOver too. I've used Wineskin/CrossOver in the same way to run a, including Baldur's Gate II. I know this is old, but the only reason SS2 doesn't work for 10.6.8 is because gog created their own wineskin engine and compiled it for 10.7. Wineskin itself still supports 10.6 even now. You can easily download wineskin.app. Use it to download the Base and the latest wrapper on the list, then go to the SS2.app open it up click on wineskin, and search for change engine to switch it out with the new one. Works with any wineskin based app. Also any dos based game can easily be made to work on 10.6. Download your own version of dosbox and use that. Also I0.6 is still supported with the last version of boxer (not sure about the standalone version used by gog which is newer code) but you can download Boxer.app and install it wherever. Why do all my Excel 2016 files open to the size of a postage stamp? If the (Excel) window is resized so that it snaps to the desktop edges the new size isn't saved for future use. Try turning Snap Assist off (Settings -> System -> Multi-tasking). Is flying from an airport from a different country than where you live considered as. Heres your solution to prevent Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac opening on Startup: This DOESN'T work: 01. Right clicking on the Word, Excel and Powerpoint icons in the dock then clicking 'Options' and then unchecking 'Open at Login', Microsoft Office still opens 02. Going to 'System Preferences', clicking on 'Users & Groups' then selecting 'Login items', (for me, theres no reference to ANY Microsoft Application whatsoever), Microsoft Office still opens 03. Going to 'System Preferences', clicking on 'General' then checking 'Close windows when closing an application', guess what? Microsoft Office still opens! This DOES work: Go to 'Applications > Microsoft Office 2011 > Office > Startup' then trash all folders in this folder to stop or prevent Microsoft Office from launching on Startup. I Solved this issue doing this. So i finally rid off of the excel starting automatically. • Disable 'Open Excel Workbook Gallery when application opens'. This is under Excel>Preferences>General. • On you dock locate the Excel Icon, press control and click over the excel icon, a new windon will popup, choose options and the ENABLE the option 'OPEN AT LOGIN' and release the control button. • Repeat item 2 but this time DISABLE the option 'OPEN AT LOGIN'. It might be a bug on Excel, you know MICROSUCK and their famous bugs!!!! Good luck, hopefully this will solve your problem. It is called Resume. When choosing Restart, Sleep or Shutdown there is a checkbox you can uncheck to prevent the apps from launching. Also in System Preferences > General there is a hard-to-find checkbox under 'Number of recent items' you can turn off. Also, you can hold the shift key to disable resume on a one time basis. If you want to turn it off on a per app basis, (TextEdit is by example, replace TextEdit with the name of the app) Launch Terminal and copy/paste this at the prompt. Defaults write com. TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false Press return. You can also accomplish this through the GUI by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State/TextEdit and delete that file To turn off Resume globally. Chflags uchg ~/Library/'Saved Application State' Press return The reverse of the first one is to replace false with true. The reverse of the second one is chflags nouchg ~/Library/'Saved Application State' Again, you can accomplish this through Finder by going to ~/Library/ Saved Application State and deleting the folder. Some vague ones. I never used WordExcel or powerpoint, so I am going on guesswork.but maybe in their preferences pane they have a place to select them NOT To start with computer? As they are for the corporate world, maybe they think that is all that is needed by default? Let me search my help and see. Oh and how about in the dock? YES- OK click on the picture in your dock, ad hold.then a menu appears and go to options and one option is open at log in. Deselect that, report back. I will return within the hour. It is called Resume. When choosing Restart, Sleep or Shutdown there is a checkbox you can uncheck to prevent the apps from launching. Also in System Preferences > General there is a hard-to-find checkbox under 'Number of recent items' you can turn off. Also, you can hold the shift key to disable resume on a one time basis. If you want to turn it off on a per app basis, (TextEdit is by example, replace TextEdit with the name of the app) Launch Terminal and copy/paste this at the prompt. Defaults write com. TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false Press return. You can also accomplish this through the GUI by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State/TextEdit and delete that file To turn off Resume globally. Chflags uchg ~/Library/'Saved Application State' Press return The reverse of the first one is to replace false with true. The reverse of the second one is chflags nouchg ~/Library/'Saved Application State' Again, you can accomplish this through Finder by going to ~/Library/ Saved Application State and deleting the folder. Cassieuae wrote: Is it possible to have some kind of a virus??? If you do, it will the first on a Mac. Comb your hair and put on a clean shirt, the paparazzi will be at your door soon. I don't know what's causing it but restoring your Mac won't cure if you also migrate your user data and if you don't migrate you're looking at a clean install for something which can probably be easily fixed. Did you go to ~/Library/Saved Application State and delete the items? (You need to go your Finder 'Go' menu hold the option key to choose that 'Library'). |
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