Update - Jan 2013 - this is quickly going to become obsolete, with Apple's release of Server.app version 2.2 for Mountain Lion, this enables a transparent caching service. If you network clients are running Mountain Lion (maybe Lion as well,...
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How to get a real IP address on Telstra Next G
The Telstra Next G 3G internet service is fast, works well in a lot of areas around Australia and can be sorted out fairly cheaply these days. One big downside to the service however is that by default you receive...
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Console not updating or asl manager taking 100% CPU
Here's how to restart the Mac OS X 10.6 log managers after removing asl data. Corrupt asl data will either cause the logs in Console.app to not update or the aslmanager process to consume 100% CPU. Open the Terminal application...
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Bad Sectors on a hard drive
I was recently discussing hard drive errors with someone and they came up with the idea of zeroing out a hard drive to fix the bad sectors. Zeroing out the disk may appear to fix the issues for a while, but...
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Fix printing to the HP LaserJet 1022 Series under 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've got a cheap and cheerful HP LaserJet 1022 attached via USB to my Mac Pro. Up until 10.6 came along, it worked perfectly. Then, once Snow Leopard arrived on the scene (and, more specifically Apple's insistence to bundle print...
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Headless Install of Mac OS X Server 10.6
I had to install a Mac mini Server today and couldn't get a spare monitor to plug it in to for the installer. In the past, I'm sure I've been able to use Apple Remote Desktop to connect to it...
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Unzip Mac OS X Archives from the Command-line
I was under the impression that most, if not all, OS X command-line utilities are resource-fork aware (where they need to be anyway) It seems that this isn't the case. The Unzip command does not understand the way that BOMArchiveHelper...
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Setting up a Git server on Mac OS X Server
Background I'm doing a bit of web development work, for myself and for my clients, and realised that having some form of source control will be quite useful. Subversion I initially looked at Subversion which has a lot going for...
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GUI Editor for Access Control Lists (ACLs) on Mac OS X
My good mate Reino pointed me to a great little GUI ACL editor for Mac OS X. More useful on non Server versions of OS X that lack any meaningful way to edit ACLs other than via the command line,...
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Remote root (?) exploit in Retrospect 8 for Mac OS X
So, you have to cut Retrospect a little slack, it's been passed around like a hot potato recently and has just found a home at Roxio now that EMC have washed their hands of it. The interface for the new...
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