Hi Everyone I noticed today that a DVD I burned on my Mac a few weeks ago has appeared in my finder, under places, and couldn’t get rid of it. It’s probably been there for a while but I’ve only just noticed it – but as I have recently developed a weird ‘Computer Neat Freak’ habit (I’m not a neat freak in real life – just ask my Wife!) I just couldn’t leave it there messing up my nice...

Hi All Had this REALLY annoying toolbar popup in Safari today called Softonic. I was looking for a quick and easy graphic utility and I discovered Paintbrush for Mac. Which is a basic graphic / drawing app like Windows Paint but for Mac Systems. It’s a freebie too which I like   But the installer comes with an extra application which is a browser toolbar called Softonic. Now don’t get me wrong – this may be useful piece...

well the story continues After several posts about my failed attempt at simply changing the hostname and IP for my OS X Server – my final hurdle was logging into Server Preferences again. Every time I tried I got the error : unable to set node credentials for ldapv3 So I returned to Server Admin and changed my open directory setting to ‘Standalone” from OD Master. This finally allowed me to gain access to the Server...

You may have read my other post about the mess I got into when trying to change the hostname on my OS X Server. Well after I finally managed to resolve the name changing and managed to log into Server Admin – I was surprised to find I could not make any changed to my DNS zone. It kept complaining about the reverse DNS zone. I tried removing it but after clicking save it would always return! Complaining that I did not have a name...

As you may or may not know, I’ve been experimenting with Snow Leopard Server over the past few weeks. I ran into a major DNS issue today when I needed to change the server name. Being Naive to the beast that is Snow Leopard server I simply went into System Preferences, Sharing and changed the Computer name! Little did I realise the havoc I was about to unleash! Needless to say after a reboot, all hell broke loose. I was unable to...