Friday, August 12, 2011

Shrinking a pre-allocated Mac VMWare Fusion virtual machine image

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My "pre-allocated" VMWare image was taking up 120 GB on my drive for about 40GB of data. I found many references on how to shrink ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Strangest sync error ever - Google Calendar

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This is very strange. I use Google Calendar Sync to sync an Outlook/Exchange calendar to Google Calendar. On that machine I authenticate w...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Steve Jobs hates me: Viewing Mac OS X Lion Parental Control logs

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OS X Lion is not all bad. [1] Yes, it's a memory hog (64 bit hurts). Yes iCal and Address Book drive strong geeks to drink. Yes, it...
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Sunday, August 07, 2011

Blogger search: no longer complete

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For years Blogger's search of past posts worked well. Lately I've found it misses strings in some older posts, even strings that app...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

What do do with an old iMac that shuts down unexpectedly?

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Our 6yo G5 rev B iMac is shutting down unexpectedly. It's mostly likely the power supply, which is sold for about $150 with shipping . (...
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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Oracle ODBC access with 64 bit Windows 7

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I know it's a dying technology, but I still get a lot of value out of Microsoft Access manipulation of data stored in Oracle tables. I h...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Wet iPhone: prevention and treatment

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The iPhone is too precious . The fragility is not the big problem; any well made case seems to make an iPhone as durable as most any other p...
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