Jacken’s Blog

I have had this annoying problem with my Macbook Pro. Sometimes when waking the machine from sleep, the machine can not connect to the selected Airport network and then hangs with spinning pizza of death.

Apples next update to 10.5.3 looks like it will fix it. Hopfully Apple will release it soon… From Fixed list of Mac [...]

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Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.

This isn’t the first [...]

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since using my new mail system Zimbra, I Must say I’m very impressed. The web client is actually so good that I now use it more than Apples built in mail that I’ve used forever. But until it’s time to migrate this setup to work I need to run it a bit more and also [...]

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So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My [...]

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After getting a 3G connection on my new toy, I noticed that connecting to a site when browsing the web could take a long time, but as soon as it gets to the page it’s fast. Typical behavior of a slow DNS server. So after changing my /etc/resolv.conf file to use the OpenDNS servers instead, [...]

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i’ve spent this weekend building and installing a new web/mailserver. My decision to go with Zimbra doesn’t feel so risky, because Microsoft gave up on their idea of a Yahoo! takeover. The only thing I can say is: Yahoo!

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