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SD card is read-only on Mac

David Newcomb — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:08:00 +0000

I spent almost half a day trying to figure out why the SD card plugged into the side of my MacBook Pro suddenly became read-only. After wading through an awful lot of Apple forums containing "are you sure you have the SD card read-only lock in the co…

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How can I stop a Facebook App filling up my wall and annoying my friends?

David Newcomb — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:31:00 +0000

Go to Settings > Account Settings > Apps > Apps you use. Find the game, click Edit. Change Visibility of App to Only me. Also delete the This app can also post on your behalf bit.

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Installing OpenMeeting with MySQL

David Newcomb — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:19:00 +0000

From Wikipedia OpenMeeting is: OpenMeetings is software used for presenting, online training, web conferencing, collaborative whiteboard drawing and document editing, and user desktop sharing. The product is based on OpenLaszlo RIA framework and Red5 m…

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Killing a crashed Task Manager

David Newcomb — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:27:00 +0000

I'm running Vista at the moment and it is terrible. I think we are all tired of the appalling file copying mechanism. I came across a new bug in Vista today and thought I'd blog how I got out of it. Task manager was loaded in and minimized. Sympto…

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Configuring a permanant DHCP reservation on a Cisco ASA/PIX

David Newcomb — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:45:00 +0000

One of our offices uses a Cisco ASA/PIX and we want to manage all the IP address allocations with DHCP. The main benefit of this is that the dynamic IP address allocations can be managed centrally. If we change the default gateway of the network then no…

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Installing OpenVPN Client on MacOs Mountain Lion

David Newcomb — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:33:00 +0000

There are several OpenVPN clients for MacOS but the most popular one is Tunnelblick. At the time of writing the latest stable version is 3.2.8 but there is a red health warning saying that it's not recommended for OS X 10.8 ("Mountain Lion"), where as t…

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Cloning a VirtualBox machine running CentOS causes network interfaces to fail

David Newcomb — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:11:00 +0000

When you clone a VirtualBox machine in order to create a new virtual machine (as opposed to creating a back up of an existing machine) then you must check Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards and use the Full clone type to make sure that th…

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What does Omnishambles mean?

David Newcomb — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:53:00 +0000

The Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year 2012 was awarded to a word popularised in the BBC2 satirical policial comedy In The Thick Of It. It hasn't been accepted into the dictionary yet. They have to wait a few years to see if it will take to the la…

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