It seems that when starting up the SMB service on OS X Mountain Lion Server, there is a race condition and some of the prerequisites may not get started up in time for SMB to properly initialise. Fortunately, there's a...
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Flying with a Jetpack
I've just installed Jetpack by WordPress.com into this site, the main improvement you'll probably notice is that commenting is easier - you can now comment using popular social network logins, rather than having to have a login specifically for this site....
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Ads Removed
Seeing as I've made a grand total of about $7.55 running Google's ads on my site, and seeing as they're pretty ugly, I'm getting rid of them as of now.
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Dealing with the hell that is running Windows Update on a freshly installed machine
OK, it's no secret, I hate Windows Update. I think it's absolutely unbelievable how many updates it needs to run, and how many times it needs to reboot, before a freshly-installed Windows machine is fully patched and up to date....
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Convert videos for watching on Apple TV/iTunes
I've been converting videos in order to watch on the Apple TV. There are numerous advantages to having a movie collection in iTunes, some of which are the vastly lower power consumption of the Apple TV vs a PlayStation 3,...
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Watch How This Time-Expanding Car Commercial Was Painstakingly Stitched Together
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderIt turns out Phantom cameras are useful for more than just destroying household items and blowing stuff up. This Fiat Abarth spot made use of the slow-motion wonder cam in this fantastical...
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Adding incoming and outgoing access rules on a Cisco ASA
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderTo understand incoming and outgoing rules there are a couple of things to know before you can define your rules. Let’s start with an understanding of traffic flow on an ASA. All...
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Configuring a Cisco ASA 5505 with the basics
I've just starred a new item in Google ReaderThe Cisco ASA 5505 is great for small to medium businesses. Below are the steps you will have to complete to configure your ASA to communicate with the internet. There are many...
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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
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Problems with installing/using imapsync on Mac OS X
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...
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