I encountered a really strange issue with a Mac mini functioning as a small workgroup file server. The mini had dropped off the network and no-one could access it's share points. I had the end user reboot it to see...
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E-mail Download Issue in Entourage With Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
I encountered an issue with a client today where there were emails missing from their inbox in Entourage, yet when the user viewed their inbox in either Outlook Web Access, or used Citrix to view their inbox in Outlook, all...
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Mac OS X 10.5.8
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for: compatibility and reliability issues when...
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Online typography is looking better with .webfont
It is looking increasing like the proposed .webfont file format for embeddable/downloadable fonts will be the standard, and will be supported in CSS3. Safari and Firefox support using TrueType and OpenType fonts, however the licensing restrictions on most fonts, in...
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How VMware Fusion Rocks
VMware Fusion is a great piece of software from one of the world leaders in virtualisation technology, VMware. There are other alternatives for virtualisation on the Mac platform, Parallels Desktop is a very well known product and they were actually...
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Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing – Windows 7 Team Blog – The Windows Blog
Microsoft have announced the Anytime upgrade pricing for Windows 7. Essentially this allows you to upgrade your currently running copy of Windows 7 to a more capable version, just by entering a new license key. Here in Australia, you will...
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Car scheme out of cash
Who would have thought that there were that many crap cars in the USA? Car scheme out of cash. The Government program to get old clunkers off the road, by offering a trade-in of up to USD4500 for handing in...
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Impossible Pie
This dessert is so easy to make, you can throw it together in about 5 minutes and then in the oven it goes where it makes itself for you. Ingredients4 Eggs120g melted butter or margarine½ Cup plain flour½ Cup sugar1...
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Crypto Flaws
Over on Bruce Schneier's Blog, there's some interesting discussion about some attacks on AES encryption that have recently come to light. It's all highly theoretical at this stage, and the attacks require some very specific initial conditions to be set,...
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The Homewrecker
Spotted over at the Instructables site, the rather appropriately named: The Homewrecker.
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