This has popped up a couple of times recently and I can never remember where to go in Office 365 to fix it, so after spending some time on the phone to Microsoft (who, by the way, were very helpful),...
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Apple have finally opened their order books for the 2019 Mac Pro, and what a beast it is. Now that it's available for sale, we can see the pricing, not only on the base model, but on the upgrades as...
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The original PlayStation has turned 25. I spent many an hour with one of these units flying anti-gravity racers in wipEout, driving fancy sports cars in Gran Turismo and being a hyperactive bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot. Here's a trip down...
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I was trying to track down the location of the Caching Server cache on macOS Mojave, this is with just the Caching service enabled in Sharing, not with the full Server.app installed. Some quick digging revealed a heap of data...
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Apple have just pushed out an update to Catalina - the macOS Catalina Supplemental Update. The description is pretty vague; "The macOS Catalina Supplemental Update includes installation and reliability improvements, and is recommended for all users." The update is nearly...
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Wow, Catalina really mixes things up with regard to the file system layout. It also introduces something called firm links, which are not symlinks nor hard links, but something akin to a union mount of two folders. This is used,...
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Adobe have published a list of apps that are 64-bit compatible for macOS. Fix Adobe app 64-bit compatibility errors on macOS Before you upgrade to macOS Catalina, please make sure that ALL of your Adobe Creative Cloud apps are 100%...
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In my last post, outlining the release of Catalina, I covered the process to check for 32-bit apps on your system prior to upgrading. Here's the info as a separate post, just so it might be easier to find. To...
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Apple have released macOS 10.15 Catalina overnight - this is a big update that is going to break a lot of old software, so please be very careful when installing this on a production system. This update is a decent...
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macOS continues to maintain a fully-functional and highly reliable Unix automount system. This system allows us to keep network shared folders mounted on a Mac, and make sure that if the connection drops out, then it gets automatically re-established again...
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