tenthofjune

After moving to Leopard, my Canon LIDE 60 scanner was not working, however when I tried to reinstall the driver it just hangs. I found the solution however on the Throwable Blog where you can get links to a download to uninstall the old driver and install a new copy of the LIDE driver.

I noticed this morning that something had been uploading data overnight. I saw that the Mozy Backup status icon showed it was still running, however, when I checked the status (see below), I was surprised to see that it had decided to try and back up 435GB of data! It is only supposed to back […]

My iMac lost its network connection this morning. The system.log was full of these:
May 11 10:54:11 iMac configd[48]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en2) failed: No buffer space available (55)
May 11 10:54:11 iMac configd[48]: DHCP en2: INIT transmit failed
which is odd, because the iMac only has two ethernet interfaces: en0 (wired) and en1 (wireless), so what is en2?
It seems […]

Having changed from a Sony Ericsson k750i to a Nokia 6300, I was amazed that the Nokia did not support the wholesale copying of my phonebook by Bluetooth, so I had to find another way round. This was to set up a temporary account on my Mac and use iSync to synchronise the two bluetooth […]

Don’t know which version of Microsoft Windows Vista to choose? Take a look at JoyOfTech’s recommendation.

A warning to all those who host a website using Apache built into Mac OS X.
Installing Tiger will overwrite your httpd.conf file.
This is your Apache config file. The effect of this (amongst others) is that any PHP installation you have will stop working. .htaccess files also seem to be disabled by default, so if […]

Well, I placed an order for Tiger yesterday.
I was initially upset to see that the UK price was UKP 89 compared to the US price of USD 129 which is about UKP 68 - 21 quid less!, but apparently, the US price does not include VAT (or sales tax), whereas the UK price
does.
Forgive […]

Here’s a excellent instruction on setting up the Unix CUPS printing service in Mac OS X to allow Windows PC to print to a USB printer attached to a Mac.
Works a treat!

Here’s an interesting discussion on Operating System security, especially on Windows vs. Mac OS X.

iTunes occasionally throws up the following when accessing the iTunes Music Store:

Errr… it is the latest version.
It seems to do this when the store site is down, but it’s obviously the wrong error message.