macOS continues to maintain a fully-functional and highly reliable Unix automount system. This system allows us to keep network shared folders mounted on a Mac, and make sure that if the connection drops out, then it gets automatically re-established again...
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I will often open up a page with a lot of links, e.g. Feedly to read the news,  and as I scroll down the page, I like to use ⌘+click to open the links in a new tab. With Firefox,...
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I received this notification from my bank recently, and it's very good advice that really needs to be passed around. It is critical when changing a BSB and Account Number at the request of an email from a supplier, colleague...
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Microsoft have published an excellent article on the Azure Active Directory Identity Blog titled Your Pa$$word doesn't matter. Although it gets pretty technical at times, if you're interested in security, I recommend at least skimming it. If you want my...
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I was setting up a new user on a laptop recently and every time I rebooted the machine, I had to re-enter the wifi password. Aside from being really irritating, there was clearly something wrong. The Mac was running macOS...
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It's Alive! I've got a Mac mini (2018), one of the new models in Space Grey with a T2 chip. It's a powerhouse, it replaced a Mac Pro (Late 2013) and on every metric, except GPU power, it trounces the...
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I've got a few users who have recently filled up their mailboxes (I thought 50 GB was a huge amount of email, apparently not), and I urgently needed to free up some space. I assigned the users an Exchange Online...
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I had an issue at a client's site today where they have a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. What would happen is that when you opened a PDF in Acrobat, it would come up...
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I installed some software that I wanted to quickly check out. As it turns out, it helpfully decided to install a couple of Extensions. These extensions were for hardware I don't have, nor do I plan to get. I didn't...
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