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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I was setting up a new Surface Laptop (with a Snapdragon arm64 CPU in it – very nice) recently and as part of the setup procedure, I needed to upgrade it from Windows 11 Home to Windows 11 Pro so...
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I had a Mac recently that was really playing up with Spotlight. So much so that I couldn't even drag Macintosh HD into the Search Privacy window as it came up with an error – Privacy List Error: The item...
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I had an issue recently where a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 was unable to use the Microsoft Print to PDF printer. It was showing as installed in Optional Features, but it just wasn't there. After removing it from...
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