Category Archives: Computer

Making ExpanDrive Work On New Macs

Posted on March 18, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

ExpanDrive and other products that rely on the MacFUSE toolkit do not work on MacBook Pros.
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Adding a GoDaddy SSL Certificate to Zimbra 7

Posted on March 14, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

These are the steps that I took to (finally) get Zimbra 7 to accept a GoDaddy-issued SSL certificate. Continue reading →

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Automatic OS Updates in CentOS

Posted on March 13, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

How to tweak the yum dæmon to do automatic and semi-automatic updates. Continue reading →

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Installing Zimbra 7 on CentOS

Posted on March 12, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Personal notes for installing Zimbra 7 on Centos 5, including split DNS for servers behind firewalls. Continue reading →

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Making a Mac Tab to Drop-Down List Controls

Posted on February 23, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Developers, and power users in general, tend to like using the keyboard for moving around because it’s ofttimes faster to push a key or two than pick up the dominant hand, grab the mouse, click, then move the hand back … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2008 Disk Requirements

Posted on February 21, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Do note that the disk requirement for the latest generation of Windows operating systems are extremely heavy. As usual for “minimum” requirements, the recommendation of 32GB for system partitions is far too small.† Perusing Microsoft’s MSDN forums lends credence to … Continue reading →

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Quickly Scrambling a File (unsort)

Posted on February 15, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

A method for randomizing the order of lines in a file. Continue reading →

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Ignoring Files in Subversion from the Command Line

Posted on February 11, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

How to edit the subversion ignore list from the command line.
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Setting Up a Subversion Server

Posted on February 3, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

The last time I set up a Subversion server was 2005. Here are notes I jotted down while installing a new server. There are a few gotchas along the way. Hopefully these notes catch all of them. Goal The goal … Continue reading →

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Reset Passwords on Tiger without an Install Disk

Posted on January 27, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

I was asked to reset the passwords on an old Mac. This is usually done by booting with an install disk for the right version of the operating system. Determine OS Version The OS version was not displayed on the … Continue reading →

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