Apple Boot Camp Public Beta Announced, Part of 10.5 Leopard

Posted on April 05, 2006 in Uncategorized

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can …


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A Windows users journey to Mac

Posted on April 05, 2006 in Uncategorized

This blog is written by a Windows veteran, a Mac newbie, describing his switch to Mac from Windows. It's both slightly technical and very technical, ranging from IM clients to setting up PHP/MySQL.

Worth a read, especially for people considering a switch.

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Terminal Services Setup Guide (2003)

Posted on March 23, 2006 in Uncategorized

Learn the best way to batten down the hatches on your servers without going too far.
by Kenton Gardinier for ftponline.com
Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services in terminal server mode can be run in either the Full Security or Relaxed Security compatibility mode to meet your organization's security policy …

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Ipod Diagnostic Mode

Posted on March 22, 2006 in Uncategorized

A list and description of ways to further run diagnostics on your ipod. All the way from testing your scroll wheel to Scanning your ipods hard drive

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Cryptic Apple Serial Numbers: SOLVED

Posted on March 22, 2006 in Uncategorized

Apple Serial Numbers have always been cryptic to the untrained eye, but this guy has figured it out. Just enter in the serial number and it will return all the data that can be wrung from the SN (model, date of production, etc...).

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Intro to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

Posted on February 28, 2006 in Uncategorized

Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

One of the biggest advantages of Mac OS X's UNIX heritage is the huge range of open source scripting languages available. Scripting languages are often the ideal tool if you want to manipulate text, manage jobs, or link together disparate components …


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Reports emerge of Mac OS X Trojan horse or worm (OSX.Leap.A)

Posted on February 17, 2006 in Uncategorized

Reports emerge of Mac OS X Trojan horse or worm - Yahoo! News

Reports indicate that someone has let loose a "Trojan horse" or worm for Mac OS X users. The program is hidden within a package that purportedly contains screenshots of Apple's as-yet unannounced next major revision to Mac OS …


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Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X

Posted on February 16, 2006 in Uncategorized

all in the head - Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X

At home we have a Windows 2003 Server running as a domain controller and file server. Whilst this does its job pretty nicely for Windows clients, I've never been able to connect to it successfully with my Mac …


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Handy CSS layout generator for web developers

Posted on February 07, 2006 in Uncategorized

Someone on IRC pointed me to this CSS generator, and the number of options and output are impressive. The ability to have verbose comments in the CSS is a nice way to learn what browser hacks are being implemented (and gives you an easy way to pull them out if …


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Removing unused device drivers from Windows XP machines

Posted on February 01, 2006 in Uncategorized

Did you know that unless you uninstall a device driver on a Windows XP machine that it still may be sucking up valuable system resources? Here are step-by-step instructions on how you can view and remove these unnecessary devices.

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