Apple’s Snow Leopard Server product is one lovely implementation of UNIX. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using it for the power and simplicity that it offers. I’ve loved using Apple’s operating systems thanks to the combination of UNIX power and elegant design. Snow Leopard server is no exception to this rule.
The barrier to entry with Snow Leopard [...]
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A coworker sent this along. I’ve had this issue on a few contacts and didn’t really have time to delve into it.
Name removed to protect the innocent and good intentions. Be very careful with this and make sure you have a backup of all data that you plan to manipulate.
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FWIW …
After serially using [...]
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If you’re having stupid amounts of trouble with your plugins loading in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, go to your Finder and open /Applications. Right-click on the Safari app and choose “Get Info.” On that screen, you’ll see a checkbox to run the app in 32-bit mode.
Check that.
Restart Safari if it’s open.
Now you’ll find that [...]
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At WWDC 2009, I stood up in a session on Snow Leopard server and lightly rattled Apple’s cage about its poor scaling guidance for the product. They were spending a great deal of time talking about the benefits of Wiki Server 2, but there was little to take away from the session [...]
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When NetNewsWire went with Google Reader syncing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I swore off Google Reader quite some time ago. Indeed, I was using NNW to avoid Google Reader. Now I’m being forced back?
It was time to look into splitting up with NNW.
I haven’t used RSS support [...]
I’m back from WWDC 2009. What a wonderful time! Sorry I didn’t update much about it, I was just too busy with my head buried in all the Apple goodness. Oh my, do they have some good stuff in the pipe for you.
One of the greatest things about WWDC is the fabulous music they play [...]
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If you find that there’s an address book card out there that isn’t syncing with MobileMe, your iPhone, or another Mac… check to see if there is an ampersand in the failing record anywhere. Apparently once a card hits MobileMe, it doesn’t like the ampersand in the vcard and chokes on it. If [...]
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Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip.
Do you use Apple Mail in an environment with Outlook? In particular, do those Outlook users prefer HTML mail? Do you receive mail from them with a microscopic font size?
Thanks to [...]
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Apple finally announced the WWDC 2009 dates and they couldn’t have targeted a better week.
It looks like I will become a representative for my agency on the Calconnect standards organization. They happen to be having a meeting at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA the week prior to WWDC. With the [...]
I was really, really excited to try out iLife ‘09, the successor to the really nice iLife ‘08 suite. I run porkbuns.org with iWeb publishing to MobileMe because hey, that’s what that kind of thing is made for.
You can imagine my dismay and disappointment when I discovered that some kind of problem is preventing my [...]
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