BetalogueNotes from an unfinished world…Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Cant administer Mac OS X 10.3 Server remotely- June 18, 2008 I am afraid it looks like Apple has made a blooper in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Regular Betalogue readers might remember that, as part of my job, I manage an Apple Xserve (G4 model) running Mac OS X Server version 10.3.9 (Panther). It&8217;s an old machine (over five years old), but it&8217;s running fine, and we ...http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/18/leopard-server-admin/ Time Capsule: Using TimeMachineEditor to decrease the frequency of Time Machine backups- June 12, 2008 Following my recent misadventures with a damaged Time Capsule backup disk image causing repeated kernel panics, and some reader feedback about the issue, I downloaded a small third-party utility called TimeMachineEditor. It is a simple application whose sole purpose is to enable you to customize the schedule of Time Machine backups. I have reasons to suspect that ...http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/12/time-machine-schedule/ Time Capsule: Bad disk image causing kernel panics- June 11, 2008 I bought a 1 TB Time Capsule a couple of months ago, when they first came out, primarily as a seamless backup solution for my wife. I have my own backup strategies for my work station, but my wife depended on being regularly reminded of the importance of backups, etc. I figured that a Time ...http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/11/capsule-panics/ Word 2008: What it breaks (which worked fine in Word 2004)- June 10, 2008 The genius of Microsoft's Mac engineers at work.http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/10/word-2008-broken/ Mail in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Useless progress bars- June 9, 2008 I don&8217;t know what Apple&8217;s engineers did to the progress bars in Mac OS X 10.5&8217;s applications, but they sure are much less useful than they used to be. A progress bar is, as the name implies, a way to indicate the progress of an action that takes a long time, so that the user gets ...http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/09/mail-progress-bars/ Word 2008: Track Changes feature as unreliable as ever- June 5, 2008 Ghost track changes that are still there even though they are no longer there. Only in Microsoftland.http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/05/word-2008-track-changes/ Word 2008: Pathetic support for Mac OS X window layering- June 4, 2008 Yet another fundamental rule of Mac OS X computing broken by Microsoft.http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/04/word-2008-window-layering/ Word 2008: When deleting a paragraph mark adds one- June 4, 2008 When deleting does not delete.http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/04/word-2008-paragraph-deletion/ LATEXT: Ghetto Underground (MP3, 05:57)- June 2, 2008 &8220;Ghetto Underground&8221; (MP3 file - 160 kbps - size: 6.9 MB - duration: 05:57) More LATEXT music here.http://www.betalogue.com/2008/06/02/ghetto-underground/ |