Category Archives: Operating Systems

1Password Woes with Safari Extension (fix)

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Safari 5.1 and 1Password 3.7.x not playing well? Getting a Database error? No such column? Overview key missing? Try this… it worked for me. Continue reading →

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Apple Magic Mouse Sleeping on Win7

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

My bluetooth Magic Mouse kept falling asleep. Here’s how to keep it away. Continue reading →

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OS X: Incomplete and partial files

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Grey folders inaccessible from Finder? OSStatus error -43? Incomplete or partial folders? Here’s what I think is causing them and quite possibly what you can do about them. Continue reading →

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TheFlip: files in the root directory? Come on….

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Were you aware that the Flip video camera you have is writing stuff to your root directory? Continue reading →

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Installing node.JS on OS X 10.6

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Having problems installing Node.JS because of missing OpenSSL problems? Here’s the solution to that problem for OS X. Continue reading →

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Un-denying a Denied Host

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

A great guy named Nicholas put out an easy to use script to unban an ip address that’s been banned by denyhosts. Here’s me gushing with praise since I could be lazy and not have to write it, along with the script so you can benefit from his contribution as well. Continue reading →

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Caution – the new Mac App Store just bit me

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Be VERY careful when using the Mac App Store — here’s how it purchased an app without my permission, along with THREE simple things Apple could have done to fix the problem. Continue reading →

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Parallels and Ubuntu 10.10 boot issue

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Ubuntu’s graphical environment stopped working under Parallels after an upgrade. Turns out the Parallels Tools was incompatible with the newer release. Here’s how I fixed it. Continue reading →

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WordPress FTPS is not SFTP

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Is WordPress giving you server errors when you try to update or upload themes? Are your only two options FTP and FTPS (which is not SFTP)? Here’s how to fix that, make WordPress work with SSH, giving you an SSH2 option for updating. And it works. Continue reading →

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Where’s my JDK?

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Caught in the Java depreciation battle under OS 10.6 and can’t find where the Java Development Kit (JDK) now resides? Here’s a command that will tell you, allowing you to still use InteliJ and other IDEs on OS X. Continue reading →

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