How to create and update a Lion Recovery Partition
Good article on Mac OS X hints today with a shell script to create or update the Lion Recovery Partition http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316132618149
Good article on Mac OS X hints today with a shell script to create or update the Lion Recovery Partition http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120316132618149
I have done a number of mail server migrations and imapsync has come through with shining colours for me in the past. I’m moving a client’s email up to Telstra’s hosted Office365 solution and needed a way to push a large amount of email up to it. After I managed to find the link for [...]
If you’re doing a quick-n-dirty deployment of a few Macs, and instead of building a real SOE, you just build one machine and image it to the others, you can easily end up in a situation where you can only bind one of these machines to Open Directory, as they all have an identical Kerberos [...]
I’m doing a site for a client using WP e-Commerce and they are using it as a catalogue site, not a e-commerce site. One thing they wanted to be able to do was to use the Product Downloads for hosting attachments for individual products, for example, a PDF info sheet. The built-in functionality of WP [...]
I was setting up a Lion Mac mini Server for a client and after changing the local administrator’s password, I was unable to access any of the services via either Server Admin or the Server application. Fortunately there’s an answer at hand, courtesy of the internets, particularly this post on the MacRumors Forums. Somehow the [...]
I’ve been tuning Photoshop performance on some decently specced Mac Pro workstations. They’re older machines than the current model and by default don’t boot in 64-bit mode. Whilst Photoshop runs in 64-bit mode under a 32-bit kernel, you will get better performance with 64-bit apps on a 64-bit kernel. You can force your Mac to [...]
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I’m trialling Google Ads on the blog portion of this site. They are now appearing on the main blog page and on the individual posts pages. I’m not getting a huge number of hits, but it’s pretty consistent at around 150-200 uniques per day so these ads are an experiment to see if they’ll generate [...]