Research Portal update, LibGuides and more
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »
Microsoft’s latest iteration of Office for Macintosh (Office 2008) does one really odd thing during installation—it makes user 502 the owner of many important directories and files: /Library/Automator/ (unless it… Read more »
The introduction of the MacBook Air (and the buzz over its size) got me thinking about the 12″ PowerBook I used to use. So, earlier today I dug it out… Read more »
A number of small items to help break the 2008 writer’s block… Annoying Leopard Print Spooler If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard you may be seeing this problem: you… Read more »
A note to help the next person trolling Google looking for a clue… A month or so ago we had an older 2.3GHz PowerMac G5 just refuse to boot. Well,… Read more »
As root (or prepend the command string with ‘sudo’) enter this command in a terminal window and you’ll be free of the translucent menubar “upgrade” introduced in Leopard (10.5). To… Read more »
You can not administer a 10.4 (Tiger) server with the Admin Tools that ship with 10.5 (Leopard) server. This is really annoying (and not the way it has worked in… Read more »
Google indexes everything, right? Of course, if you’re running a web-based security camera system, you’d be sure to block access to your cameras, wouldn’t you? Well, not everyone does. Search… Read more »
I’ve been using Leopard this week and despite a couple of small gotchas, it’s been so much smoother than the jump from 10.3 to 10.4 (Panther to Tiger). Better too… Read more »
I use the “archive and install” option for upgrades and recommend it over Apple’s default “Upgrade” option. Basically the “A&I” method moves your system and user files out of the… Read more »