Adobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking

Adobe Adopts Microsoft’s Drunk Thinking

Well now this is just stupid. Taking a chapter right out of Microsoft’s intrusive “We’ll block everything for you until you say it’s ok” Vista book, Adobe has suddenly and annoyingly decided to block every flash file from trying to play on your computer without warning or explanation. Great idea on paper maybe, but as a well-crafted Apple ad points out, it’s ultimately just pointless...

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Fix for Leopard Printers that Stay in the Dock

Fix for Leopard Printers that Stay in the Dock

Apple made a small change to the way that printers work in OS 10.5 Leopard. Previously, in Tiger, when you printed a document, the printer would bounce in the dock, and then when done printing, it would disappear again. That changed with Leopard. Now, whenever you’re done printing, the printer stays there taking up space in your dock. It’s not a big deal, but I found myself constantly...

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iPhone, you broke my heart

iPhone, you broke my heart

A collegue/friend of mine once used the expression “Mac Bigots” to describe a small group of us. This is most certainly the case. I freely admit to being extrememly biased in the ever stimulating debate between Mac and PC users. “Apple simply kicks ass”, I’ve been known to say. I speak of Apple products like my dad talks about Tim Duncan. He talks so matter-of-factly, that you’d just...

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Mac OS X Server 10.4.9: Mac OS 9 client cannot copy some files via AFP

Mac OS X Server 10.4.9: Mac OS 9 client cannot copy some files via AFP

We have a client that has a serial scanner connected to an OS9 workstation. Recently, we updated their server and other OSX workstations to 10.4.9. When attempting to copy scanned files back to the OSX file server, they were continually getting: “The file server’s connection has unexpectedly closed down” message. Apparently things changed on the OSX 10.4.9 end of...

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