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Category Archive: Macs

Q&A: Not a sudoer

How can I use the sudo command from a non-admin user account?

August 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to set up a folder action to automate document processing

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Folder actions can do many useful things. Here I develop one to decompress Zip archives.

August 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player to version 18.0.0.232

In case there is anyone left still using Flash, Adobe has just released version 18.0.0.232, which fixes the […]

August 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Missed travel connections

Sometimes connecting to hotel WiFi results in failure, because the Mac has a self-assigned IP address. Why?

August 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Either port in a storm

How can I best use the two Ethernet ports on my Mac Pro?

August 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

The politics of encryption, and the ignorance of politics

The UK government doesn’t want to ban encryption, but may see it as a cheap way of winning votes from the easily-impressed.

August 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Ghost in the Time Machine

Although I have disabled Time Machine, my Mac still runs periodic Time Machine backups.

August 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

What’s in a Name? Mac, MAC, and IP

What is the network address of your Mac? Is that its MAC, IPv4, or IPv6 address, how is each assigned, and how do they relate to one another?

August 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Arts in Hard Times

Why Apple should be giving more to charity, and how that should include the arts.

August 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Lights on, no disk mounting

The drive light is green, the disk can be heard spinning, but it does not mount. Is it dead?

August 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

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