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

If you've not used pkgbuild before, it can be a bit daunting to go from the (admittedly rather confusing) GUI-based Package Maker to the command-line tool pkgbuild, but never fear, for making simple packages, it's actually a lot easier. To...
Read More

If you've got a WHM/cPanel server, and you want to run an alternative mail server on one IP address and have Dovecot and Exim bound to another IP, it's not as straightforward as you might first hope. From what I can...
Read More

With Apple hiding a lot of the more useful and fine-grained controls over the services on OS X Server, the SMB Service is one area that has suffered. There is no longer any control whatsoever over Windows file sharing, other...
Read More

One thing that is a lot harder than it needs to be is managing the internationalisation preferences in OS X from a script, via MCX or via a configuration profile. For some unknown reason, this is a simple change to...
Read More

To cut a long story short, if you're trying to get Kerio Connect to authenticate against an OD server running on 10.7 or 10.8 (Lion or Mountain Lion) that's not running on the same server as it, you'll need to...
Read More