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 Leopard [...]

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2009

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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.

FWIW …
After serially using [...]

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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 you’ll find that [...]

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Vermyndax on September 23rd, 2009

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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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