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  • Whining

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    [Security experts say that Apple isn’t ready for enterprise prime-time.][1] 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…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 2

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    It was a few months ago that I originally wrote the first incarnation of the MailExchange2iCal script. Since then I’ve been in contact with a few users trying to make it work for them and I’ve found a number of peculiarities in the types of email invites sent by Exchange/Outlook. The biggest problem was that…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Part 2

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    I’ve come across a problem with the original MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script. It seems if the .ics invite was only listed as an attachment or in base64 encoding then the script would fail. I’ve subsequently revised the script to handle this and to more gracefully ask into which calendar you want the event imported. I’ve also fixed…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix

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    As any Mac user who deals with Microsoft Exchange invites will tell you Exchange screws up the time zone information. What this means is that you will likely miss your meetings. Not a good thing. Justin Hartman has recently given you his solution to this problem. I haven’t tested it but in looking at it…

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  • Apple USB Ethernet Adapter – solution

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    Peter Sichel of [Sustainable Softworks][1] is a genius. Seriously. He’s not only just updated his [USB to Ethernet Adapters for Mac OS X][2] 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.…

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  • Apple USB Ethernet part 2

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    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 a connection but just doesn’t transfer data. I did boot from an external firewire drive…

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