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I sing the praises of VMWare!
Over the past few years, I’ve been introduced to virtualization and have started to use it in my everyday work environment, especially with regards to using it heavily in my test environments. Here’s...
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The night Loginwindow put out a hit on my user accounts.
I had an odd problem crop up while doing a server upgrade today, where some AD accounts that I’d set up on a server were disappearing after a reboot. I’d set them up, reboot and *poof* no more user...
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Using the 10.5-style contextual dock menu in 10.6.x
One change in 10.6.x was that Apple added new behavior to the Dock’s contextual menu. In 10.5.x and earlier, when you clicked on a program’s icon, you’d get a contextual menu with that program’s Dock...
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Power Outlet With Built-in USB Ports
I saw this linked from Engadget today and I think it’s a great idea. More and more small electronics charge via USB, and freeing up a power plug (which would otherwise have a electric AC – USB power...
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Yahoo account hacked
My Yahoo email account (which had what I considered a fairly strong password, with having both letters and numbers and being longer than eight characters) got hacked today by a spammer, who then...
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Thanks, but no thanks.
In an odd follow-up to my previous post, Yahoo has now offered me the ability to sync my contacts between various other services. Considering three-quarters of my previous problem was because I was...
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Creating individual zip files from folders inside a directory
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to make individual zip files from folders inside a directory. I was able to find a lot of guidance for one big zip file, but I needed each folder to have...
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Reinstalling X11 on a 10.5.8 Mac
I had a problem come up in my workplace for a MATLAB user, where MATLAB wasn’t launching. On investigation, it appeared X11 wasn’t launching. To fix this, I had to reinstall X11 on the user’s 10.5.8...
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Oh yeah, I have a GitHub repository.
In my just-previous entry, I mentioned that I was linking to scripts in my GitHub repository. For those and other scripts, my GitHub repository is publicly available at the following address:...
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WWDC 2011 notes
Despite the fact that there wasn’t an IT track this year, I went to WWDC 2011 to learn as much as I could about 10.7. I’m really glad I did, as I picked up an enormous of amount of information (and met...
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