With Apple hiding a lot of the more useful and fine-grained controls over the services on OS X Server, the SMB Service is one area that has suffered. There is no longer any control whatsoever over Windows file sharing, other...
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Product Review: Audioengine A2 desktop speakers
I've had a pair of Audioengine A2 self-powered desktop speakers for a bit over a year now and they still continue to impress. Easily the best desktop speakers in their price range, I paid around $220 for them and at that price...
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Setting Internationalisation Preferences for OS X in a script
One thing that is a lot harder than it needs to be is managing the internationalisation preferences in OS X from a script, via MCX or via a configuration profile. For some unknown reason, this is a simple change to...
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Revisiting converting videos for Apple TV
Further to my earlier post on converting videos to MP4 for Apple TV and easy playback from iTunes, I've recently been using another app for adding metadata, and this one makes life easy as it can search for, and retrieve,...
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Kerio Connect and Kerberos Authentication against a 10.7/10.8 OpenDirectory Server
To cut a long story short, if you're trying to get Kerio Connect to authenticate against an OD server running on 10.7 or 10.8 (Lion or Mountain Lion) that's not running on the same server as it, you'll need to...
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Can’t connect to SMB shares on Mountain Lion Server after a reboot
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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Flying with a Jetpack
I've just installed Jetpack by WordPress.com into this site, the main improvement you'll probably notice is that commenting is easier - you can now comment using popular social network logins, rather than having to have a login specifically for this site....
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Ads Removed
Seeing as I've made a grand total of about $7.55 running Google's ads on my site, and seeing as they're pretty ugly, I'm getting rid of them as of now.
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Dealing with the hell that is running Windows Update on a freshly installed machine
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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Convert videos for watching on Apple TV/iTunes
I've been converting videos in order to watch on the Apple TV. There are numerous advantages to having a movie collection in iTunes, some of which are the vastly lower power consumption of the Apple TV vs a PlayStation 3,...
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