Force your Mac to boot into 64 bit mode

UPDATE…

Not all Macs that are capable of booting a 64 bit kernel will boot the 64 bit kernel. The Mini is one of those… (This is from Apple.) Getting those machines NOT on the list to boot into a 64 bit kernel is possible, but it’s beyond the scope of this article (it involves editing your boot.efi.)

Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Mac Pro (Early 2008)

Mac Pro (Original)    
iMac (Early 2009)  
iMac (Early 2008)  
iMac (earlier models)    
Mac mini (all models)    

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Fortunate Fortune Cookie

“You will visit a faraway land that has been in your thoughts.”

Please be true.

Why my iPad doesn’t have 3G

This is a speed test from my iPhone, done in the 98121 area code. It’s as close as you can get to Downtown Seattle without being in Downtown Seattle. To be clear, I pay a lot of money for this service.

Using jQuery from Google

One of the largest items to load for a wordpress blog is jQuery. Google currently host most jQuery libraries on their site for public consumption. This appealed to me because Google is very, very fast, whereas my site is pretty fast, but not Google fast.

I tried various plugins to do this, but none of them worked. I found this site, which shows how to make the change by hand.
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I need to take more photos