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.
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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 […]
I know that it is not yet Spring, but the closure of MacUser has driven me to tidy […]
A network is just a sophisticated way of connecting clients to servers and services. To make this work, […]
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