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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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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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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If you're doing a quick-n-dirty deployment of a few Macs, and instead of building a real SOE, you just build one machine and image it to the others, you can easily end up in a situation where you can only...
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I was setting up a Lion Mac mini Server for a client and after changing the local administrator's password, I was unable to access any of the services via either Server Admin or the Server application. Fortunately there's an answer...
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I've been tuning Photoshop performance on some decently specced Mac Pro workstations. They're older machines than the current model and by default don't boot in 64-bit mode. Whilst Photoshop runs in 64-bit mode under a 32-bit kernel, you will get...
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Enter the specs, hit generate and you've got a PDF ready to print out. Free Generator of Barcode Tape Labels for Ultrium LTO Backup Libraries.
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Mac OS X Server v10.6: Hosting Software Updates for OS X Lion or Lion Server.
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I'm finding I need to do more stuff talking to a serial port, and picocom seems to be the best terminal emulator I've found for Mac OS X. I was previously using screen, which is shipped with Mac OS X and...
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