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Secure remote desktop using SSH and VNC
University of Pennsylvania Biology Department have a great how-to for using SSH with port forwarding and VNC to create a no-cost secure remote desktop application. Although it’s a Mac OS-specific...
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Cisco WRVS4400N – first impressions and Mac OS VPN support
As I mentioned here, I’m spending some time evaluating this wireless security router for use in a small office environment. So far, I’ve had no complaints about the basic operation and build quality of...
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Browse a Time Capsule disk image in the Mac OS Finder
A friend of mine recently acquired an Apple Time Capsule to perform automated wireless backups to using Time Machine from a couple of SOHO Macs. The Time Capsule soon proved its worth when one of the...
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Apple MobileMe Mail is a steaming pile of dung
While the Apple faithful await the roll-out of the supposedly new and improved iCloud service, let’s not forget the colossal and hopefully soon-to-be-forgotten joke that has been MobileMe, in...
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Apple MobileMe Mail sucked, and now iCloud does as well
Well, I guess it was too much to expect: Endless intermittent errors, a dog-slow web interface that takes an absolute age to start up, and stupid-long wait times just to see the contents of a mail...
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Apple Mail craps pants when trying to send huge attachments via Gmail
As in, it tends to break rather badly. In short, the solution here worked for me on Apple Mail 5.2:...
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Microsoft Surface – the short version
There are many words I could waste on the newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet, reflective of the company’s obsession with Apple Inc, and their increasingly obvious hail mary approach to staying...
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Mac OS X killed the Linux desktop? I must have missed the memo (and so did...
Bizarre little opinion piece by Miguel de Icaza proclaiming the death of the Linux desktop. A little excerpt: “True story. The hard disk that hosted my /home directory on my Linux machine failed so I...
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Creating a GlassFish service on Mac OS X
Quick post – when installing GlassFish 3.1.2.2 on Mac OS X (10.8.3 in my case) a GlassFish service won’t be created by the GlassFish installer (whereas Windows and Solaris platforms do get the ability...
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Configure Apple Mail 4.6 with Gmail
This is a brief guide describing how to quickly configure Apple Mail with Gmail over IMAP. This is pertaining to an old release of Mac OS, specifically OS 10.6.8, which is running Apple Mail 4.6. I am...
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The new Apple Mac mini makes even less sense
In the past we’ve noted Apple’s insane pricing for their (claimed) entry level Apple PC, the Mac mini. With the latest model released in the past couple of weeks, Apple adds another key reason to avoid...
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Mac OS X killed the Linux desktop? I must have missed the memo (and so did...
Bizarre little opinion piece by Miguel de Icaza proclaiming the death of the Linux desktop. A little excerpt: “True story. The hard disk that hosted my /home directory on my Linux machine failed so I...
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