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These Synology NAS devices are just so useful. Even more so because they all run the same OS (DSM). With 4TB drives becoming really inexpensive these days, you can get a lot of TB readily accessible for quite a modest cost. Upgrading to larger ca…
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I love this kind of stuff. You can get so much productivity leverage in return for quite modest amounts of programming. One liners are probably somewhat limited but with a bit of extra work it is really useful. Way back in the past, I used to writ…
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My biggest worry about subscription models is that when you stop paying, your software dies, even if over the years you've paid way more than the purchase price would have been if you bought a perpetual license. I would be less worried if it just st…
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This is where Apple Mail hurts us the most. We've got Macs running all day so we can have rules set up to deal with things but what we can't easily do is act on messages. Unless the engineers removed it in the latest versions, you can run an App…
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In the end, after a lot of time spent diagnosing this and with the help of the support team at Apple, we used the sysdiagnose tools to scan the logs and configs for the engineers. This yielded some error reports about missing security certificates.…
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OK, there is a work around. But you need an external CalDAV service available such as FastMail. It might work with other providers in a similar way. Here are the steps: 1. Go to your FastMail control panel. 2. Navigate to the security settings …
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Huge thanks to the Apple support team for investigating the breakdown in iCloud sign on capabilities with Mountain Lion (10.8.5) for me that I posted about earlier. They continue to press the iCloud engineers for an answer. It is hugely reassuring…
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Still no joy with authenticating my iCloud sign on from OS 10.8.5. The setup.icloud.com server that it hits (according to Little Snitch) is not online and therefore cannot vend the configuration back to me. This was all working fine before. But I…