It’s April 1st, and you know what that means…. Â People attempting to be funny…. This Perl Application, can remap the HP LaserJet “Ready” Message, to say anything that you want. Â For example, “INSERT COIN(S)”. Â It is neat, and will persist until the printer is power cycled, and does no harm… So consider what you can […]
tms — Command-Line Interface to Time Machine: “Command-line tool for CVS like access to Time Machine volumes.’
At this point, all evidence points to this being a normal fact of life with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard). Â If you have more than 1 Dashboard widget, you will probably have more than one dashboardclient startup when you run Dashboard. Â The ratio is probably not a 1:1 ratio, since Leopard is designed to […]
Why does your Information Technology team tell you not to turn on that Web server, or leave SSH turned on when your not using it? Â Because they want you to be secure… Here’s a perfect example… Mar 30 16:14:06 68 sshd[2933]: Did not receive identification string from 96.10.82.114 Mar 30 16:21:57 68 com.apple.SecurityServer[24]: checkpw() returned […]
I’m not sure when this started, but I just noticed this in my log file, on NERV. 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) getpwuid(“506”) failed 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) PID 1104 “lssave” has no account to back it! Real/effective/saved UIDs: 506/506/506 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.launchd.peruser.506[40370]) Exited with exit code: 1 3/31/09 6:06:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] […]
Can you create sub-folders in Apple Mail and store them on a drive the way you can do is Microsoft Outlook? In MS Outlook, you could create a .pst folder and create as many sub-folders. Can you do the same thing in Apple Mail? Apple Mail can do so much more than OutLook.. Â Mail […]
Ever just have one of those days….? Error (12): Link of previous volume failed for DVR Storage. Time Machine is a very reasonable backup package included with Mac OS 10.5, but every now and then there are some issues… Â I changed out a drive (DVR Storage), with a larger SATA drive, and then I started […]
Gosh darn it… Customer Service is one of the most important things for businesses… It doesn’t mean the customer is always right, but it does mean that you try to solve the customers issues… Quite a few months ago, I was going around in circles with customer support representatives for a certain tax company, and […]