OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Upgrade and WiFi
I installed the OS X 10.5.2 upgrade yesterday. Shortly after installing it I turned 802.11n back on in my D-Link DIR-655. It is much more stable now, at least so far. In thirty-six hours I have had...
View ArticleStacks Improved in OS X Leopard 10.5.2
Apple made a minor but welcome improvement to Stacks with the 10.5.2 upgrade. You can now change the stack icon on the toolbar to a folder icon. So now instead of seeing this: I see this: I am much...
View ArticleAutomatically Start MySQL on Startup in OS X Leopard
In an earlier post I explored how to install MySQL from a package on OS X Leopard, but I left unsolved the problem of how to make MySQL start automatically on system startup. This morning while reading...
View ArticleOS X Leopard and MySQL Update
I should have looked before I wrote my last post on MySQL because there is an updated version of the MySQL package for OS X 10.5. (And it has been available for quite a while too.) I undid everything I...
View ArticleSSH Weirdness On OS X
I use ssh all the time, but I rarely use it to connect to my MacBook. Today my MacBook froze hard and I tried to ssh to it from my Linux box in an attempt to recover. The ssh failed with the following...
View ArticleTaming Word 2008′s Paste Special
How I hate Microsoft Word's Edit|Paste Special menu item. Why can't Microsoft assign a keyboard shortcut to it? It is a maddening oversight and it makes me crazy when I just want to past some...
View Article789:57:13
I recently had several tracks stop playing in iTunes and they all had one thing in common, a duration of 789:57:13. The recommended solution for this problem is to re-rip or re-download the track. That...
View ArticleIntroduction to Virtualization on the Macintosh
A very brief introduction to virtualization on the Macintosh and a high level comparison of VMWare Fusion 3 and Parallels Desktop 5. [View on SlideShare to see the notes] Introduction to Virtualization...
View ArticleFixing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Samba Write Access
June 21, 2010 Update: Apple appears to have solved the problem for many of us with the release of Snow Leopard 10.6.4. To save you time I’ll give you the solution first then describe how I found it:...
View ArticleThe OAuthpocalypse and Keynote Tweet
The Twitter OAuthpocalypse arrived on September 1st. Starting on that date Twitter API clients are required to use OAuth and are no longer allowed to use basic authentication. This change broke more...
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