I've recently seen a number of people recommending that I use various 3rd party DNS resolvers - CloudFlare, OpenDNS etc. One problem I've encountered with using some of these DNS servers is that they're set up for the North American...
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Deep dive into Apple’s recent High Sierra root authentication issue
Over on the highly-technical, and very informative, Objective-See blog, there is a great in-depth writeup on Apple's recent High Sierra root access bug. Why <blank> Gets You Root What is happening is if you try to log in as a...
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Possible fix for no video in Skype for Mac
I don't use Skype very often, but when I went to use it recently, it couldn't see my FaceTime HD camera. I'd go into Skype > Preferences and in Audio/Video and although the preferences said it was using the FaceTime...
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Higher Quality options to Reduce PDF File Size in Preview.app on macOS / OS X
Apple's built-in Preview app has long had a way that you can reduce the size of a PDF by recompressing and downsampling the images in the PDF. Simply open a PDF in Preview and go to File > Export and...
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FileMaker Server 13 Conflicts with Web Services Ports
FileMaker Server 13 is a bit of a pain to install - it absolutely insists with no option to change it that it MUST listen to ports 80 and 443 on whatever it's installed on. This is a big problem...
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Can’t sysprep a Windows machine more than 3 times
It seems my Windows-fu is lacking a bit in my sysprep knowledge. As it turns out, you can't sysprep a Windows machine more than three times. Unfortunately you get no warning about this until you've run sysprep for the 3rd...
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Issues installing Windows 8 on a new Retina MacBook Pro
I've spent too long this morning trying to install Windows 8 on a new Retina MacBook Pro. The first error I received was that "Windows can't be installed in drive 0 partition 4" with more detail giving the error message "The selected disk...
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Remove duplicate “Open With” menu items in the OS X Finder
The Finder in OS X often gets confused as to what's supposed to be in the "Open With" context menu, particularly if you mount and unmount other volumes that also contain an OS X system and applications. This menu is...
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Setting up a Git server on Mac OS X Server
Background I'm doing a bit of web development work, for myself and for my clients, and realised that having some form of source control will be quite useful. Subversion I initially looked at Subversion which has a lot going for...
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iTunes Store Terms and Conditions
An interesting point to note with the recent opening of the Mac App Store is the terms and conditions for the iTunes Store (which powers the Mac App Store). To note (emphasis mine) USAGE RULES (i) You shall be authorized...
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