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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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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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