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I use Unison to keep a few directories synchronized between my various workstations and a collocated server. Unison works great, but occasionally has problems in my mixed operating system environment. The most frequent problem is
Failed: Destination updated during synchronization
This error message is not very helpful at all. Newer …
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After all this time, I still love VirtualBox, the open source hypervisor from Sun (now Oracle). I use it almost everyday on my iMac to either test something in Windows XP or see what's going on in some version of Linux. It's been almost a year since the release of …
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Somehow, I have let my Gmail inbox get totally out of control. I don't know if it was the holidays or what, but as of this morning, I had over 800 unread messages in my Gmail inbox. I decided a little while ago that it was time to focus on …
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Importing Mozilla Firefox bookmarks into Safari on your Mac is really easy. Firefox stores its bookmarks in an HTML file that can be parsed by Safari. In Safari, simply click on the File menu and select Import Bookmarks. This will open a file selection dialog box. Firefox stores its bookmarks …
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Former Lotus Notes users may prefer to see unread messages in red rather than just bold. Microsoft Outlook uses two different views to display message lists to the user: Messages and Messages with AutoPreview. We will need to change the font color to red in both views to ensure that …
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If you're like me, you abandoned non-free virtualization options in favor of
VirtualBox. I use VirtuaBox every day on my iMac in
order to perform Windows or Linux specific tasks. Since Sun
released VirtualBox 3 this summer,
they continued to improve the product. Check out the ChangeLog
to see what …
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Today (Aug 28, 2009) is the big day for Mac OS X lovers. Snow Leopard has finally been released. If you were smart enough to pre-order it on Amazon then you'll be getting it soon. Not only that, but you saved \$4 off the list price!
On a related note …
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Firefox 3.5.2 was released by the Mozilla Project today. This release is mainly a security fix and all users are advised to download the new update as soon as possible. Please take the time to download this important security update today.
A list of security fixes is available …
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ISC is urging BIND users to upgrade their production DNS servers immediately. ISC recently announced a patch to fix an exploit in BIND. This exploit is in the wild and has been used to crash BIND servers resulting in a denial of service. Using a specially crafted dynamic update packet …
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I use VirtualBox to run a Microsoft Windows guest
on my iMac. For some reason, VirtualBox did not notify me that version 3.0 had
been released. This new version includes symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for
guest systems, Direct3D 8 and 9 for Windows guests, and OpenGL support for Windows,
Linux …
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For whatever reason, my iMac had some problems this week and I was forced to shutdown uncleanly. I didn't notice much in the way of repercussions until I tried to use Parallels with shared networking turned on. When I opened up Leopard's Network Preferences Pane, I noticed that the Parallels-NAT …
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The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.0.7 yesterday. This minor release addresses several stability issues in addition to a few critical security problems. It is recommended that all users upgrade in order to get access to these security fixes. Additionally users of the Flashblock add-on will enjoy a better …
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Google may have added this feature back in October, but I'm just now noticing it. Although I don't use footnotes very often, I know some folks that really like them. Alex at GoogleOS pointed out some issues with the new footnote system when they first hit the scene.
Somewhat related …
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The Camino Project announced the release of Camino 1.6.6 today. In addition to improved ad-blocking features, this release includes the most recent version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Since this update includes several security fixes, it is recommended that all users upgrade as soon as possible.
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After almost a year of development, the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) announced the newest release of their Domain Name System (DNS) server, BIND 9.4.3, today. This release includes over 140 fixes over BIND 9.4.2.
Although this maintenance release is mainly focused on bug fixes, it does …
