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CVS pserver on Mountain Lion

Right. I do know CVS is old and all, but I like it. Actually I’ve a ton of stuff in my CVS server. And have written all kinds of scripts that digest that stuff and do stuff with it. So no, I’ll not switch any time soon for the...

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Move the Apple Mail Download Folder

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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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,...

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