I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from the server. Upon rebooting, things weren't looking too...
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Here is a list of known issues from Adobe for Creative Suite 3 on Snow Leopard: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. None of them look like show-stoppers to me, but forewarned is...
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How Mac OS X reports drive capacity
Interesting technote to read from Apple - they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units,...
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Tech Support Cheat Sheet – xkcd
This is pretty well spot-on - print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
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Weird iCal Server Issue
I had an issue today where a client's iCal Server logs would show lots of: "Unable to find any record with GUID..." events, constantly. iCal was slowing down for everyone, server-based calendars either took ages to update with changes, or...
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The mysterious case of the missing Ethernet port
I encountered a really strange issue with a Mac mini functioning as a small workgroup file server. The mini had dropped off the network and no-one could access it's share points. I had the end user reboot it to see...
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E-mail Download Issue in Entourage With Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
I encountered an issue with a client today where there were emails missing from their inbox in Entourage, yet when the user viewed their inbox in either Outlook Web Access, or used Citrix to view their inbox in Outlook, all...
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Mac OS X 10.5.8
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for: compatibility and reliability issues when...
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How VMware Fusion Rocks
VMware Fusion is a great piece of software from one of the world leaders in virtualisation technology, VMware. There are other alternatives for virtualisation on the Mac platform, Parallels Desktop is a very well known product and they were actually...
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RFC 1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths
Here are the 12 networking truths. They apply to a whole heap more than just networking, most of them are good advice for pretty much any situation you could possibly get yourself into. Just remember: "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly...
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