Automatica v2
The redesign for this website is almost complete. The pages look similar to the old version however the entire site (rather than just the blog section) is no...
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Ever seen a pwned home router?
I had to go and sort out a client the other day as their router (a Bigpond branded Netcomm unit for a home NextG connection) had, somehow, been compromised a...
Read post →Fix EFI Fiery E10 Driver on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I've had all sorts of issues installing the Fiery E10 driver (installed in a KM Copier) to work under 10.6 - after installing it, the Printer preference pane...
Read post →Apple kills the Xserve?!?
Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Apple has announced that they are discontinuing the Xserve hardware platform . I know that they're selling a lot more Mac mini Servers...
Read post →Blinking Light on Brand-new Xserve
I've set up a few brand-new Xserves lately and two of them wouldn't stop blinking their System Identifier light. The System Identifier light would blink rapi...
Read post →Cancel your White and Yellow Pages deliveries
If you can read this, you have a computer and access to the Internet. You therefore have probably not opened a Yellow or White Pages directory in a number of...
Read post →Enable Spotlight ACLs on Share Points for OS X Server
If you create a share point on OS X Server (10.5 or 10.6) and it doesn't have the magic Spotlight ACL, then Spotlight may not be able to index the content. T...
Read post →Make your own Adobe Creative Suite Combo Updaters
Had I the bandwidth, I'd probably post the results here, but I don't so I'm going to tell you how you can easily make your own Creative Suite Combo Updater....
Read post →Fix iTunes 10 vertical window buttons
As if iTunes doesn't go off the rails enough with the rest of it's window controls, it now makes the Close/Maximise/Minimise buttons (AKA the traffic light b...
Read post →How to fix the Growl installer for an InstaDMG Workflow
Growl's installer helpfully includes a postflight script that opens up the System Preferences app so that you can configure the Growl options. This is genera...
Read post →Adobe Creative Suite Updates
Adobe now have a blog (with atom and rss feeds) where you can quickly and easily see what the latest updates for Creative Suite 5 are. In addition to this fe...
Read post →Funky Fresh Fonts
I've been using Myriad as the Automatica corporate font but until now there was no easy way to reflect the design of the printed page on the internet. TypeKi...
Read post →Possible fix for iChat not working but Adium OK
I've got an Xserve running, among other things, iChat server. To tidy things up, I wanted to have all users with a login of something like user@example.com r...
Read post →Kerio Control on an appliance
I'm still testing this and aren't at a fully working solution just yet, but it's looking promising so far. I'm wanting to try out Kerio Control but don't wan...
Read post →Interesting bug in Importing to Apple Mail from Entourage 2008
Apple Mail imports a maximum of 6000 items per mailbox from Entourage 2008, so large folders must be imported and deleted in repeated passes.
Read post →Remotely rebooting an Xserve without ssh access
Read this carefully as it may save you a long drive on a cold night, as it did for me. So, I'm working on an Xserve somewhere over the other side of Melbourn...
Read post →User Interface Design Framework
Over on the Webalys blog, there's an excellent for user interface design and mockups. All free for commercial and non-commercial use and high quality - even...
Read post →Safari 5.0.1 Released
Apple have released Safari 5.0.1 today which, among other things, fixes a bug in WebKit that makes the body of a Mail message have a black background when th...
Read post →Solution for playing media on the PS3 from your Mac
I've been looking into Playback recently as an option for playing back media files on the PS3. Playback is great in that it also allows you to stream media t...
Read post →Graffiti Analysis
Love it or hate it, you have to admit that there is a style to graffiti - a modern calligraphy even. This project aims to preserve not only the look of graff...
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