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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Grab the latest version of Safari from Apple
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....
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Quick pkgbuild tutorial for building Installer Packages on OS X Mountain Lion
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...
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Binding Dovecot and Exim to a specific IP on WHM/cPanel
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...
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Fixing Windows File Sharing (SMB) Permissions on OS X Server
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...
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Setting Internationalisation Preferences for OS X in a script
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...
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Kerio Connect and Kerberos Authentication against a 10.7/10.8 OpenDirectory Server
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...
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Can’t connect to SMB shares on Mountain Lion Server after a reboot
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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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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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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