Category Archives: computer

New IP Address

Well, as a cost saving measure and because we really weren’t using more than one, we’ve cut back to a single IP address. Time Warner Cable is the biz Internet provider. They’ve been very helpful in setting up reverse DNS lookups and PTR records, but at the same time the transfer to the new IP […]

Amavisd settings

I run my own mail server on OS X Server. For the most part I have my SpamAssassin settings tweaked pretty well. Unfortunately, there is some spam that seems to have malformed or incomplete MIME boundaries and these messages don’t seem to be getting passed off from Amavisd to SpamAssassin. As such, they seem to […]

Backblaze Backup

I have an invite or two to distribute for the Backblaze online backup service for OS X. Price is $5 a month per machine for unlimited data. Attached disks are recognized, but not yet network attached storage. My opinion is once they allow for NAS backup it’ll be great.

Leave a comment if you want […]

Laptop Envy

OK, I have serious laptop envy. I need a new MacBook. Just have to figure out what to do about no firewire drive.

Whining

Security experts say that Apple isn’t ready for enterprise prime-time.

Quit whining. All you seem to care about is that Apple didn’t give you any advance notice. You spent the entire article about it without even addressing the fixes or whether OS X and/or QuickTime, etc. are now more secure. Grow up. Apple doesn’t need to […]

Powered Down

The power was off for most of the day a couple of days ago. Perhaps related or not but now our G5 iMac won’t power on.

Off to the closest Apple Authorized Service Center.

WordPress and the iPhone

So I’m trying out the latest WordPress for iPhone app and it’s pretty cool. What I’ve noticed though, because I use the Markdown plugin is that the preview shows the marked up content and not the rendered content. It would be great if somehow this could be fixed.

Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

I’ve previously written about problems with Leopard server and forwarding of virtual hosted domain email. My solution was somewhat inelegant and errors were written into the mail.log. Since that time I’ve found a solution that works and generates no errors. It also has the added benefit of being entirely within Server Admin.

Here’s what to do.

In […]

Unforeseen Circumstances

Due to unforeseen circumstances I accidentally trashed my server installation. Don’t ask me for details but I think I accidentally unloaded all my launch daemons. I figured no big deal just restart the machine and everything’s fine. Not so fine.

I restart and my mail server doesn’t seem to be working correctly.

Several reinstalls later and I […]

Apple USB Ethernet Adapter - solution

Peter Sichel of Sustainable Softworks is a genius. Seriously. He’s not only just updated his USB to Ethernet Adapters for Mac OS X to work with the recently released Apple-branded USB Ethernet adapter, but he sent me a comment letting me know.

I’ve just installed the USBAx8817x 1.0.3b10 release and it seems to be working.

Peter emailed […]