Saturday, September 07, 2013

Google Checkout ends Nov 20, 2013 - review all of your Google Apps eNom registered domains now

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Google is ending their Google Checkout service, it closes 11/20/2013. The support document on this discusses  retiring Google Checkout Merch...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

OS X Mountain Lion cannot delete sparsebundles containing over 262,144 bands (2TB+)

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Working on my primary Mac reminds me of working on cheap old plumbing. I'd start out fixing one piece, then another would break, then I...
Monday, September 02, 2013

Downloading a fresh copy of Mountain Lion Installer and using Lion DiskMaker to create an SD card boot drive

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Today, in preparation for a 1TB SSD install following the demise of my 2nd 1TB Samsung 2009 iMac boot drive , I created a Mountain Lion 10.8...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

Uninstalling Sophos Antivirus version 9 for Mac - the web site documentation is incorrect

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[It's undocumented, but after I wrote this I discovered the Antivirus 9 install puts an app called 'Remove Sophos Anti-Virus' in...

Don't like your OS X user name? Set an alias.

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On one of our machines the admin account is Admin/Administrator, on another it's admin/Administrator, and on a third it's Kateva. Ve...
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Permissions bug in OS X: Fetching forever - SOLVED with Workgroup Manager (Bonus: Reset user account permissions with passwordreset.app)

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See the update for how I finally solved this bug. - This is apparently a longstanding OS X bug that particularly affects veterans. I noticed...
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Annals of the unexpected: My 2009 iMac runs better off an external drive than its original (cursed) internal Seagate

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This was unexpected -- in a good way. I posted about it on  posted about it via Apple Discussions  but I'll share a revised post here. T...