If you want to manage Apple’s Quick Look in 10.5 the following MAN-Page could be interesting.

Related 3rd party links:

• Quick Look From Command Line
• Mac 101 - Using Quick Look

Apple released a Keyboard firmware Update for all Core 2 Duo Macbooks / MacBook Pro’s

Quote:

MacBook, MacBook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0
This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues.

The update package will install an updater application into the Applications/Utilities folder and will launch it automatically. Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

For more information about this update, please see About the MacBook, MacBook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0

Well i never had this issue on my macbook, and the mbp at work is too old (first gen.) for that update but lets see if it helps other users with that problem.

Req.:

• 10.5.2
• Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook  Macbook Pro

If you want to change the backup interval of Time Machine do the following steps:

• Goto Finder
• Navigate to: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
• Backup the file: com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
• Open: com.apple.backupd-auto.plist in a text editor.

The file should look like this:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.backupd-auto</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper</string>
<string>-auto</string>
</array>
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>3600</integer>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<false/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>

The relevant part is the key: StartInterval. Change it’s integer value like you want. The default value in 10.5.2 is: 3600, which means 3600 seconds or 60 minutes.

Based on this article on macosxhints.com

Guys, what is the best setup on Leopard ?

My idea:

• Outgoing -> Little Snitch
• Incoming -> Mac OS X IPFW + WaterRoof

any better solution in mind ?

Apple implemented DTrace into 10.5 Leopard which can be used to monitor applications and much more.

Sun as DTrace founder describes DTrace as:

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

Its pretty nice that we have this tool now in 10.5 but like always its not totally perfect=)

Adam Leventhal explains the limitations of Apples DTrace in his blog

Quote:

So Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes which don’t permit tracing. This is antithetical to the notion of systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the spirit of open source. I’m sure this was inserted under pressure from ISVs, but that makes the pill no easier to swallow. To say that Apple has crippled DTrace on Mac OS X would be a bit alarmist, but they’ve certainly undermined its efficacy and, in doing do, unintentionally damaged some of its most basic functionality. To users of Mac OS X and of DTrace: Apple has done a service by porting DTrace, but let’s convince them to go one step further and port it properly.

Links:

• My last blog-entry regarding DTrace
• German ::: heise.de about apple and DTrace

Found a nice hint for all cli-lovers on OSXDaily.com

Quote from the article:

Quick Look is a nice feature added in 10.5, I use it often for glancing at the content of various documents and it certainly beats launching an application. If you’re an avid command line user though, you may be browsing through a directories contents and wondering just what is that JPG or DOC file. Wonder no more, because you can easily use Quick Look from the command line:

From the command line, use the following syntax:

qlmanage -p filename.jpg

This will launch a Quick Look window with whatever file is specified as ‘filename.jpg’, the file type can be anything that Quick Look is compatible with (which seems to be just about everything).