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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard


Published on September 7th, 2009
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Here is a list of known issues from Adobe for Creative Suite 3 on Snow Leopard: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. None of them look like show-stoppers to me, but forewarned is forearmed.

How Mac OS X reports drive capacity


Published on September 1st, 2009
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Interesting technote to read from Apple – they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units, they are using 1MB=1000kB and 1GB=1000MB. This is more in line with the measurements that [...]

Tech Support Cheat Sheet – xkcd


Published on August 24th, 2009
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This is pretty well spot-on – print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.

Weird iCal Server Issue


Published on August 19th, 2009
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Problem in iCal Server: Server logs show lots of: “Unable to find any record with GUID…” errors after deleting users from the Mac OS X Server directory.

The mysterious case of the missing Ethernet port


Published on August 8th, 2009
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I encountered a really strange issue with a Mac mini functioning as a small workgroup file server. The mini had dropped off the network and no-one could access it’s share points. I had the end user reboot it to see if that sorted it out and it didn’t so I went in and had a [...]

E-mail Download Issue in Entourage With Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008


Published on August 6th, 2009
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I encountered an issue with a client today where there were emails missing from their inbox in Entourage, yet when the user viewed their inbox in either Outlook Web Access, or used Citrix to view their inbox in Outlook, all the missing emails were there as clear as day. We tried rebuilding their Entourage database, [...]

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