Electronic mail remains one of the fundamental network services. Here I explain POP, IMAP, and SMTP basics.
Mac
Security, like terror and debt, is a concept that can generate nightmares, or deep indifference, depending on your level of paranoia and anxiety.
The real world performance of S.M.A.R.T. to warn of imminent drive failure is not as impressive as its claims, but here is how to get better use from it.
Q I recently upgraded my Mac mini Server to Yosemite. When the installer reported there was only a […]
Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]
There’s nothing that attracts critics and harbingers of doom more than success. Apple, having posted the largest quarterly […]
Apple has just released security updates for Safari and OS X (and iOS and AppleTV). Safari 8.0.3, 7.1.3, […]
Q I have some important old documents which were created using Microsoft Word before 2002; most are from […]
Q I rearranged the room in which my iMac and Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID R4 live. Before doing anything, […]
Important security update to Oracles’s Java SE, release 8u31 of 18 Dec 2014, available 20 Jan 2015, from […]
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