Quick tip to allow you to delete hiberfil.sys on a Windows system. Run CMD as Administrator and enter power cfg /hibernate off If this doesn't automatically delete C:\hiberfil.sys then you can go in and delete it manually. Why do you...
Read More

NFS mounts have two parts. The first part is the server that hosts the share point. The second part is the client that access the share point. You can have one or more clients accessing the same share point on an...
Read More

Sometimes when you clone an OS X installation, for example using Carbon Copy Cloner, it will create a Recovery HD partition but not hide it for you. The "hidden" status of a partition is determined by it's partition type -...
Read More

I've been doing a fair amount of non-standard tweaking to Mountain Lion's web services. It's not difficult to completely break the web server, and initially it looks like it's near impossible to fix it unless you know exactly what you...
Read More

I recently set up a Mac mini Server with a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID. I reinitialised the array a RAID6. I left the stripe size at the default of 128k, and changed the block size to 4k as this should...
Read More

Yes, if there's one thing that GoDaddy are good at, it's pimping their wares. Occasionally though their sales are useful. Like this one - if you're running your own mail server or a website with a dedicated IP, you can...
Read More

Outlook 2011 for Mac has an annoying habit of getting items stuck in it's outbox and often it's not clear (or even possible) to see where these items are to delete them. You will often see this happen if you...
Read More

Over on the Apple Discussions, there's a quick hint to find and download the latest version of Safari. It seems that Apple are no longer offering standalone installers for Safari, instead telling people to get it from Software Update instead....
Read More