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Vermyndax on June 20th, 2011

It’s brutally important that you understand this article if you support Exchange 2007 or 2010. Read it. Now. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2563324 Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on March 28th, 2011

Guess who didn’t get a ticket? There’s absolutely no way I will ever be able to purchase a ticket through my corporation if the windows is down to the hour. No way. I was going to be lucky to pull a purchase within 48 hours. Apple needs to expand this conference and offer paid developer [...]

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Vermyndax on January 6th, 2011

It just occurred to me while I was visiting the Thinking Chamber earlier today: If the big three tech companies were characters in Back to the Future, they would be… Microsoft == Biff Apple == Marty McFly Google == Doc Brown Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on November 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 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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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

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 [...]

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Vermyndax on September 23rd, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 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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Vermyndax on August 7th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 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 [...]

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Vermyndax on June 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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Vermyndax on April 30th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia 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. [...]

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