Archive for May, 2009
My adventures with the Dell Mini 9 and installing OSX 10.5
I recently bought one of the wonderful Dell Mini 9 netbooks to use as a basic task replacement to my now 2 year old 15″ Macbook Pro. As an added bonus, it is also one of the best netbooks to install OSX on.
Actually, I had intentions of installing OSX on it right from the beginning, [...]
Problems connecting to a share on Windows XP from OSX 10.5
I came across a problem with trying to connect to a share hosted on a Windows XP Professional machine.
I could browse for it and see the share, however whenever I tried to connect to it, it would connect as Guest. This is fine if you have the security setup so that Everybody has at least [...]
Converting a Outlook Express mailbox to Outlook 2003
I found a strange problem today that involves converting a Outlook Express mailbox (store) over to Outlook 2003 (pst). I am not sure if this is an isolated problem on just this particular Windows XP machine, or whether it was some other bizarre configuration problem.
However, the problem rears it’s ugly head with the following scenario.
If [...]
Increasing Exchange 2003’s Mail Database Size
One thing I find the most infuriating with Exchange 2003 (and possibly Exchange 2007) and also the one thing that I constantly forget about and have to google, is that out of the box Exchange 2003 has a hard limit of 16gb for the size of the information store.
This basically means that the total of [...]
Synchronizing an Entourage 2008 Mail Database between two Macs
I ran into a weird problem while trying to setup the ability for a customer to synchronize an Entourage 2008 mail database between two macs. The master machine was a iMac and the secondary was a Macbook Pro.
He basically wanted to use the iMac during business hours and then use the Macbook Pro at home, [...]
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