by Dave | Nov 19, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I don’t know if Windows® users get them, but occasionally I’ll receive an attachment from a coworker that uses Outlook® and instead of the attachment I’m expecting, it has a ‘winmail.dat’ file. You can read about the TNEF problem...
by Dave | Nov 13, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Very tricky. I have a lot more respect for the Keychain in Mac OS X after working on this. It is not simple at all. After poking around I cobbled together an Automator application (using AppleScript) that goes through the Keychain and exports the passwords to a file...
by Dave | Nov 12, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I use rsync a lot for website deployment, etc. There wasn’t an entry in the System > Administration > Services control for rsync. I just had to copy my rsyncd.conf file from /etc/ on the Mac to /etc/ in Linux and edit /etc/default/rsync.conf to say...
by Dave | Oct 31, 2008 | Tinker Blog
At some point in the endless reboots back and forth to different OSes, I found myself again at the Mac OS X login screen. I entered my username and password. It accepted them, the login screen went away and… came back. It did this several times. I rebooted. No...
by Dave | Oct 30, 2008 | Tinker Blog
If you’re setting up Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro like I am, do yourself a favor and read the excellent and thorough documentation at the Ubuntu site. The benefit to installing on such a specific, set of components common to many, many users is that you aren’t...
by Dave | Oct 29, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I have to admit that I cheated here. I already had my system using Boot Camp with a Windows Vista installation (which runs great on my MacBook Pro by the way) and I had two great pieces of software from Coriolis Systems- iDefrag and iPartition. By defragmenting my Mac...
