Apple Mail seems to use its own location for downloading attachments that you double-click on. On my machine, this was in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail\ Downloads I wanted those to go into ~/Downloads And since Apple as a company keeps thinking about even the illiterate, it hides the Library folder, and even...
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Solution to Mountain Lion Battery Life Problem
Your Mileage May Vary. But on my machine (TM), the battery life substantially dropped on my 2010 MBP after installation of ML. By substantially I mean really really badly. From 4 hours previously to down to about 1.5 hours. Surfing around about that problem, I did find the programm...
Continue reading...Removing Fan Noise and Heat Problems with MacBook Pro
I’ve had increasing problems with two MacBook Pro, one I5, one I7, both from 2010. Reading about badly applied thermal paste on the net, I decided to give that a try. Using this excellent walkthrough from iFixit.com, I was able to eliminate the problems entirely. Monitoring the I7, I...
Continue reading...When your Server dies…
Having recently upgraded my server by an external housing and an additional SCSI controller (an LSI 9750-8e in addition to theĀ 9690SA-8i), I was experiencing unexpected server crashes that had never happened before on that server. The server just became unresponsive, sometimes still responded to a ping, sometimes not. Before,...
Continue reading...Brain Dead Blog Spammers, stay away, please…
You know what, I really do think you should get a job. I mean you. The kind of brain dead blog spammers who have nothing else to do than to add a “positive comment” into other people’s blogs along with a link to whatever useless service you think you’re...
Continue reading...SAP Top Talent Fellow 2011
And here – as it arrived the same day – is the certificate that I was assigned SAP Top Talent in 2011 (actually, both in 2010 and 2011). My task was to develop ways to improve the SAP Labs Communication, working for our Chief Communication Officer.
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