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Just recently stumbled on this issue. Symptoms- despite having admin or root privileges, you can’t delete a user account in System Preferences/ Users & Groups. According to this- https://medium.com/@ambroselittle/cant-delete-original-admin-user-on-macos-high-sierra-1d79fb438246 and this https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/376113/catalina-ask-password-to-delete-user-but-password-is-always-wrong It’s a hangover from ‘ye olden days’ and requires quite a lot of complex manoeuvres to fix. Well, I got lazy and did this bit- System Preferences >

I realise my post titles are looking more and more like cries for help, but what can you do? Issue- Needed to connect a MySQL database to Zoho Analytics to torture some data. Zoho provides a connector for this which is (argh) Java based and also requires the Oracle driver to be installed separately… but installing MariaDB requires installing Brew

All credit for this goes to the original Redditor– I’ve only tried to make it a bit easier by rewriting the instructions.   A friend needed a fast setup on a budget and I wanted to see what I could do with stuff I had lying around. There was a Synology DS1817+ that was about to go on eBay, a

I’m very proud of this one because I was told multiple times that it couldn’t be done by Connectwise themselves… What are we trying to achieve? I wanted to be able to make a single installer for Connectwise Control (hereafter called CWC) and then put the clients in their appropriate groups programmatically afterwards. There’s several issues with this- CWC writes

I’ve had this issue for about 2 years, here’s the error message- Anyway, after an hour or two of analysing the tracks and looking at the differences between AIFF and AIFF-C, I went back to basics and found that the folder structure for these tracks existed, but the tracks themselves were not inside the folders in the iTunes library. So

Getting access to the Help Desk Portal at https://helpdesk.servicemax.com.au/portal/en-gb/signin Is important because there’s a whole bunch of resources in there that will help you to get help and ultimately make doing your job easier and more efficient. How to access? The first time you send in a ticket, the system will send you an invitation by email. Just click the

Privileges is an application designed to give Standard Mac users the ability to become Admin for the purposes of installing software, changing settings etc. It’s very straight forward, but has some downsides if you want to use it in a truly managed way- clicking on the app just flicks admin rights on or off and does not record what happened