Tonight, I discovered I had left something on my Mac at work that I wanted at home. The problem: my machine at work is sleeping, like most of the personal machines on our internal network when we are not in
SMB, Windows, and Leopard Server
This post may be useful to anyone using SMB to share files to Windows users, but is particularly important to Leopard Server users because of the way OS X uses hidden files in the file system. In the office we
Functions in Excel and Numbers ’09
Back in late 2007 I wrote an article comparing Excel functions with Apple’s Numbers ’08 – Apple’s then new spreadsheet application that was part of iWork ’08. This week Apple released iWork ’09, which contains Numbers ’09. For completeness I
Kerberos login errors with Leopard Server
Thought I’d write a quick blog article on an issue I had with my Mac at work. We have Leopard Server running on a Mac Pro, and use Kerberos for authentication of machines on the network when connecting to services
Reflecting on Reflection
Even by my standards, the title of this article is lame. Sorry. Anyway, Apple this week announced new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. The way I saw it, there were three major complaints: Lack of firewire on the MacBooks. Lack of
Time Machine Backup to Rotating Disks
We have Leopard Server running in our small software company, with user’s machines backed up to the server via Time Machine, and other important data stored on the server such as our intranet pages. So it is vital that we