This article came about because of a client who is overseas. He wrote me an email saying that he couldn’t figure out where all of the space on his MacBook Air SSD had gone. This question doesn’t have a simple answer, so I’m writing this to help him, and everyone else out. Here’s the problem- There are lots of similar
I want to acknowledge the huge help that Andre LeBranche of Apple has been with this issue. You rock! Here’s what we were trying to do- in Lion Server v10.7 Get iCal server to send and receive invitations via email to people not on the local network from a server on a private network (no FQDN) where the clients email
What do you do when your internet connection goes down? Do you sit and twiddle your thumbs until it comes back up? Or do you realise how much it is costing you in lost productivity and yell at people until something is done? Recently my ISP (who shall remain nameless) caused me a great deal of heartache and a
Here’s another little spam prevention tip- The email is most likely using a forged ‘from’ address- meaning it probably does not originate from your machine, or even your network. Someone has found your email address somewhere, created a spam email, and is using your address as the ‘from’ address. Sadly, this is easy to do. If this is the case,
Passwords should evolve -Until we find something better! I was having a look recently at an interesting article on Ars Technica about how a normal guy with no particular hacking skills was able to break some reasonably complex passwords. It’s scary stuff, and should make us all have another look at this aspect of security. I’ve recently been evaluating a free
Quite frankly we were surprised that our engineer didn’t simply burst into flames when crossing the threshold at this site for the first time, but it turns out we have a lot more in common than you may think. We’re impressed that our stereotyped ideas of Churches aren’t realised here. It’s a happy place with a focus on community. As
Tex Whitney Productions produce high quality corporate and event videos. And we’re proud to say that we’ve been working with them for over 10 years to gain a competitive advantage through efficient IT. When we first met the crew at TWP, they were working from a converted terrace in Kings Cross, using a combination of old reliable sneakernet to get
We’ve been dealing with the people from Spinifex in one form or another for nearly 20 years. As you can imagine, business, and business process has changed dramatically during that time. We’re proud to have assisted Spinifex through many of these changes. Spinifex have been very forward thinking, happy to experiment to get the best outcome, and using IT as
This might seem like a pretty boring subject for a post, but if you spend time on the internet (we all do!) then you may have noticed that the WordPress platform is getting more and more popular. It uses templates for general look and feel, widgets to extend capabilities and an SQL database backend to store content. It all works
We all use email extensively, but we tend to forget the fact that it isn’t encrypted by default…..The best analogy is to think of an email like a postcard- yes, anyone involved between sending and delivery can read it- it’s plain text and unprotected- and they can modify it and you won’t know! One thing you can easily do is
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