There's an excellent series of articles on Spotlight in recent versions of macOS over on the Eclectic Light website. I've recently had a couple of machines that were not searching in Mail, among other things, and I needed to rebuild...
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I had a bit more trouble than I would have expected trying to find a page on APC's website to enter a serial number and check the warranty status of a UPS. Over on the UPS Lifecycle page, there's a...
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I had a Mac recently that had been wiped via Find My, so it had neither an OS nor the recovery environment on the internal drive. It also had the default firmware settings that didn't allow booting from external media....
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As we head into 2025, we are in the process of rolling out a new corporate ID for Automatica with the aim to freshen and simplify our visual imagery. We're keeping the same orange and grey colours, and keeping a...
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The instructions for certbot on the EFF website for macOS instruct you to schedule the automatic renewal using Cron. On recent versions of macOS, Cron has been deprecated in favour of launchctl. Cron is still there, and it still works,...
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I recently needed to search through a fairly extensive list of files to find when the most recently modified files were last edited, and needed to search in a folder and all subfolders. This one-liner did the trick for me...
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Sometimes the Out of Office auto-responder can get confused and it won't send replies correctly, or even at all. Sometimes it sends an old reply instead of the new one the person has entered. You can delete these rules from...
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I've been deploying more and more Snapdragon powered PCs for clients lately and generally they're really good. They are fast, the battery life is great and they run all the apps people are using – either natively or via translation....
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I've recently been building an SOE for a client using Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 with Autopilot and Intune. In order to streamline the whole process, I wanted to make a bootable Windows 11 installer that I could use to...
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None of the existing 64-bit printer drivers for Windows 10 or Windows 11 will work with Windows 11 on ARM. Xerox can make it tricky to find a print driver that works with Windows on ARM, and in many cases...
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