Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • 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…

  • 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…

  • WordPress SVN

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    OK, since I’ve switched over to WordPress I have to admit it’s been pretty painless. I decided to go with the [SVN update process][1] since I know it’s much easier. But the monkey wrench in the process is having to switch to the new checkout for every stable release. So instead of $ cd ./blog…

  • iPhone post

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    I’m just testing the iPhone posting with the new 1Password integration. I can only say one thing. Awesome.

  • New Year Blues

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    Well, I’m sad to report that the new year ended up ringing in the death of a dear friend’s mother. I just happened to be in the ED when I noticed the staff unsuccessfully attempting to resuscitate her. I did the best thing I could think of and just stood next to her husband. Unfortunately…

  • USB to Ethernet Adapter

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    Oh my god how aggravating. I’ve got an Intel Mac mini I’m using as a server and I’ve got a StarTech USB to Ethernet adapter. Unfortunately, none of the current drivers seems to support Leopard well. Fortunately, [Sustainable Networks][1] has written a beta driver to support Leopard. Unfortunately my adapter isn’t one of the ones…