I haven’t seen this issue, but this Apple Support Forums discussion (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2072449&tstart=25 ), discusses a non-obvious troubleshoot step to take if you are experiencing seriously degraded download performance. Quit Safari In your home folder open Library –> Safari Drag your downloads.plist file to the desktop Open Safari Attempt an download, and compare the speed of […]
Ever run into the issue of finding out what Browser someone is using? Â Or their Screen Resolution? Â Or if flash is installed? Tell them to web browse over to http://supportdetails.com. Â It will use a server side script to report the OS, Screen Resolution, Web Browser, Browser Window Size, IP Address, Color Depth, Javascript, Flash Version, […]
Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available […]
Typically Mac OS X is configured to set the default printer to the last printer you just used… Â But that’s not always correct… In some cases, people with laptops have attempted to use a printer that isn’t available, and that has caused the laptop’s fan to run constantly, since Mac OS X is attempting to […]
Folks, One Major issue that I have with Time Machine, is that the OS does not warn you (reliably) if you go too long between backups. Here’s a python script that can do so… Â It’s primarily designed for attached (usb/firewire) storage, but I have added support for Time Capsule style backups… Â When run, the script […]
I don’t know what Sophos is smoking, but they have just released a KLINGON language version of the Sophos Antivirus suite. Klingon Anti-Virus
There have been reports of slow boot ups when running Windows Vista… Â But so far far, it appears to be a variety of issues… Â One issue is the GPCLIENT service taking an long time to startup during boot up… Check your DNS settings on the Vista client, and make sure that the Fastest DNS server […]
Over at Macintouch, a user has contributed an Applescript that will display when the amount of freespace on the drive, drops below a preset limit. tell application ‘Finder’ — sets up variables set theSize to capacity of startup disk — total size of disk set freeSpace to free space of startup disk — amount of […]