Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • False Positive

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    Just a personal reminder to keep in the memory bank. When running OS X Server and SpamAssassin, if you have spam set up to be quarantined it gets stored in /var/virusmails. A method of viewing and releasing quarantined mail mostly from the command line follows. First, to do anything with the quarantined message you need…

  • Poof it's Gone

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    OK, I’m only really posting this cause I need it and I just want to put it somewhere to remember it. 😉 To make a file or folder invisible issue the following from the CLI. [applescript] SetFile -a V path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] To make it visible again… [applescript] SetFile -a v path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] That’s it. This…

  • US Navy Seal Cleared Over Attack

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    BBC News | World | UK Edition A US military jury clears a Navy Seal over an attack on an Iraqi suspected of killing four American security guards in Falluja. Amazing that it even got to this point. Poor, poor terrorist.

  • Don’t Send iCal Replies

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    I came across a great hint in Mac OS X Hints today. It seems that there’s an easy way to interrupt the process of sending an email reply when accepting iCal invites. As I tend to play around with iCal invites a lot (adding and deleting the same event ad nauseum) — I love this.…

  • New Safari Version??

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    I’ve just spent the last 40 minutes on the phone with Union Bank tech support because for the past 2 weeks I’ve been unable to log in to my online account with Safari. After all this time the tech support person, who was very nice, told me I was missing a patch to Safari. I…

  • iPad Arrives

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    Well, with the Easter weekend over and Apple’s iPad gaining more headlines than anything else, I have to say I want one, but I can wait. I actually got to touch one. Someone at the hospital brought it with them. It’s not that heavy. The display is bright and crisp. It’s fast. I played a…