I've had all sorts of issues installing the Fiery E10 driver (installed in a KM Copier) to work under 10.6 - after installing it, the Printer preference pane would have a yellow warning triangle and when you opened the printer...
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Apple kills the Xserve?!?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Apple has announced that they are discontinuing the Xserve hardware platform. I know that they're selling a lot more Mac mini Servers, and that the Mac Pro is currently (in some aspects) a more powerful hardware platform,...
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Blinking Light on Brand-new Xserve
I've set up a few brand-new Xserves lately and two of them wouldn't stop blinking their System Identifier light. The System Identifier light would blink rapidly four times with a short pause and then repeat. Normally this happens if you...
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Cancel your White and Yellow Pages deliveries
If you can read this, you have a computer and access to the Internet. You therefore have probably not opened a Yellow or White Pages directory in a number of years. Go here and cancel the delivery of your paper...
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Enable Spotlight ACLs on Share Points for OS X Server
If you create a share point on OS X Server (10.5 or 10.6) and it doesn't have the magic Spotlight ACL, then Spotlight may not be able to index the content. To enable, or re-enable it, enter the following in...
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Make your own Adobe Creative Suite Combo Updaters
Had I the bandwidth, I'd probably post the results here, but I don't so I'm going to tell you how you can easily make your own Creative Suite Combo Updater. I'm not happy when I roll out a new copy...
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Fix iTunes 10 vertical window buttons
As if iTunes doesn't go off the rails enough with the rest of it's window controls, it now makes the Close/Maximise/Minimise buttons (AKA the traffic light buttons) sit in a vertical line at the left of the window. Fortunately a...
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How to fix the Growl installer for an InstaDMG Workflow
Growl's installer helpfully includes a postflight script that opens up the System Preferences app so that you can configure the Growl options. This is generally what you want most of the time, but not all the time. If you're installing...
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Adobe Creative Suite Updates
Adobe now have a blog (with atom and rss feeds) where you can quickly and easily see what the latest updates for Creative Suite 5 are. In addition to this feed, they've announced that the updates are going to be...
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Possible fix for iChat not working but Adium OK
I've got an Xserve running, among other things, iChat server. To tidy things up, I wanted to have all users with a login of something like [email protected] rather than [email protected], but after adding the extra domain into iChat server, iChat...
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