OS X Server Open Directory DNS Error -65563
I’ve been muddling my way through learning to use OS X Server’s Open Directory. Kerberos, especially, doesn’t work very well for me, so I’ve been looking through the logs and investigating anything that looks suspicious. A fair amount of people see the following message in the Directory Services Error Log in Server Admin. 2010-05-13 17:15:08 PDT [...]
OS X Server Management Plan for Small Businesses
I’ll warn you now, this is a bit of a rant. I need to vent a little bit while I install OS X Server on my Mac Mini Server for the fifth time. Here’s my situation, and I’m sure there are many other people that are in the same position as I am. One of my [...]
OS X Server: File Sharing vs. AFP
This post is about a very subtle difference I learned between “File Sharing” and AFP when using Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (and probably previous versions as well.) But first bear with me while I explain how I got here. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been taking a crash course in Mac OS [...]
Force Deleting Files in OS X
A file on an external drive was constantly giving me the message: The operation can’t be completed because the item “filename” is in use. I got it over a period of days even after switching files in the only application that could have possibly used it and quitting that application. When I looked for help on this, [...]
Using MediaWiki Increases my Productivity
It's only been one day and already I'm in love with MediaWiki. I have been able to organize my thoughts around a theme system redesign more than I ever though possible.
Installing MediaWiki
Today I installed MediaWiki for the first time to keep track of the documentation behind my various projects. I was finding myself getting reset too many times because I would forget my previous assumptions and my various TextEdit documents were getting lost in an unorganized virtual pile on my desktop. This happens a lot as multiple clients have you switching between tasks.
Why I Love The Web Standards Acid Tests
I generally design only for the latest browsers. If my code works on the most recent version of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE then I’m happy. However, Internet Explorer is such a piece of crap that sometimes atrocious errors on IE7 give me great pause. (As of this writing IE8 was the current browser.) I’ve said [...]
When it Comes to Accounts, Google is Messed Up
Oh Google. I love you in so many ways, and in some ways I’m just amazed you can even get out of bed and get yourself dressed in the morning. I’m a big fan of Google hosted email. You get that great Gmail experience, but with your own domain. It also incorporates Google Docs and Calendar [...]
Finally, CSS Font Ligatures
"Using @font-face allows web designers a wide palette of font choices and with commercial font vendors supporting the WOFF font format, the set of font choices should improve even more. So the next step is clearly to try and make better use of features available in these fonts."