Category Archives: Computer
Certifiable 2.0
I took the Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.5 this morning, again at Parkland’s Prometric testing center.  Things went much more smoothly for this test and I was in and out in less than an hour.I bought the Peachpit prep book for … Continue reading
Certifiable
I took the Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.5 exam yesterday at Parkland’s Prometric testing center. After waiting an hour and a half for them to get the testing workstation set up, I cranked through the 90 questions in 40 … Continue reading
Leopard Quirks
I’ve been running Mac OS X Leopard for a few days now and I’ve run into a few quirks/bugs. Quicklook previews with inconsistent locations I’ve haven’t quite sorted out where Quicklook stores its prefs, but I’ve had Quicklook throw its … Continue reading
Dreamhost… ugh.
So, I finally decide to register and use the altgilbers.com domain and I shop around and decide to use dreamhost. I knew going in that it is shared hosting and that performance of the server is very much dependent on … Continue reading
How not to do it…
At work we have a (necessarily) complicated printing system for the student computer labs. Mac and PC workstations print via LPR to Windows print queues. On the Windows Server 2003 box Pcounter takes control of releasing jobs and charging student/faculty … Continue reading
Leopard Server
Last week I went over to ISU in Bloomington for an Active Directory/OS X integration seminar. Â It was 99% stuff that I had already done, but Mike Bombich shared a couple of hints of what was coming in Leopard Server … Continue reading