GParted: Windows 8 Boot Camp Partition “Missing Operating System”

Reading Time: 2 minutes Problem After using GParted to resize an NTFS bootcamp partition, Windows 8 fails to boot with “Missing Operating System”. Discussion There are commercial utilities for resizing a bootcamp partition like Camptune or WinClone, but they are unnecessary.  Disk Utility will shrink the OS X partition to make space.  Booting to a Linux USB Drive with […]

Netgear WN1000RP and AT&T 2WIRE DSL Router Configuration Issues

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The WN1000RP is a small, plug-in wireless range extender.  Once configured properly, it eliminated a WiFi dead spot for a wirelessly-challenged iPad. Problem WN1000RP appears to connect to the 2WIRE router successfully, but no internet connection is available through the extender.  Unable to click “finish” using the configuration wizard, and other issues with the browser-based configuration utility. […]

Energy Saver Preferences Not Saved in 10.8.2

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Problem In the Energy Saver preference pane of System Configuration in OS X 10.8.2, any changes made are lost upon restart. Discussion Here is an abridged list of things I tried that did not solve the problem: Disk Utility repair permissions function Various command line repair permissions functions on ~/Library and sub folders Deleting com.apple.systempreferences.plist […]