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  • Apple USB Ethernet adapter

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    **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 is that your Mac’s built-in ethernet adapter also is identified as en0. I bought this…

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  • Forwarding Email in Leopard Server

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    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 to access the users mailbox or the mailbox wasn’t set up. Well, since the mail…

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  • Fixing MySQL and phpMyAdmin

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    There seems to be a problem with how current versions of OS X store the mysql socket and how [phpMyAdmin][1] looks for it. It seems currently the socket is stored at `/tmp/mysql.sock` but phpMyAdmin is looking for it at `/var/mysql/mysql.sock`. The result is a connection error type #2002. After a lot of Googling here’s the…

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