Tag Archives: computer

Whining

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Andy

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 … Continue reading →

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Powered Down

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Andy

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.

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WordPress and the iPhone

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Andy

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 … Continue reading →

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Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Andy

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. … Continue reading →

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Unforeseen Circumstances

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Andy

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. … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet Adapter - solution

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Andy

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 … Continue reading →

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In for repairs

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Andy

Well, I’m going to try and clone my server and run it off the booted external firewire drive until I get my server’s ethernet port fixed. I can only hope it goes well. Wish me luck. And yes I’m backing … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet part 2

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Andy

Well, after spending several hours on the phone with AppleCare is seems that my mini’s ethernet port went belly up at the exact same time I tried to install the Apple USB Ethernet adapter. It seems my ethernet port recognizes … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet adapter

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Andy

Don’t use this adapter on any Mac except the MacBook Air At least not yet. Here’s why. The Apple USB Ethernet adapter loads just fine but it identifies itself with a BSD Device Name of en0. The problem with this … Continue reading →

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Forwarding Email in Leopard Server

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Andy

OK, to put it mildly the Workgroup Manager and Email in Leopard Server has some quirks and problems. I and others noted that a user whose email was set to forward would give a 550 error about not being able … Continue reading →

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