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Backup Failure: Cloudberry – Synology Case Confusion

Had an interesting problem with my Cloudberry Backup for Windows Home Server that took longer to resolve than it should have, even though it was minor. To set the stage, I use rsync to backup my...

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iTunes Frustration (Yet Again)

Back in the day when I got my first first iPod I didn’t use it much. I was on Windows and that was when the iPods were sold as OS specific and iTunes wasn’t an option. Then I was able to use iTunes and...

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Swapping HP MicroServer Hardware

Alternate titles for this post include “It’s not always Microsoft’s fault” and “It’s not always the last change that broke it.”. I started off last weekend applying this months Microsoft security...

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The OS Quest Trail Log #70: April Showers Edition

April showers held off for most of the month, so much so that there were almost daily Red Flag Warnings for brush fires. But at the end of the month a nor’easter rolled in. While it dumped snow...

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Apache File Does Not Exist Error

I spent some time over the past week killing some bugs and making some adjustments to my server. One of them was a message being logged to my default Apache error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log). The...

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@#$%!@ Web Host

About 3:30PM ET today I got an alert that my site was down. Sure enough, it was not accessible. I logged onto my Linode management console and there was a notice that they were investigating a problem...

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iPad/iOS 6 Wireless Sync

Ever since upgrading my iPad 3 to iOS 6 I haven’t been able to do a wireless sync with iTunes. My iPhone 4S does a wireless sync just fine. I tried the usual troubleshooting things such as restarts and...

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iTunes – A Big Pile of Stink

This isn’t an article complaining about changes iTunes 11 made. In fact, I held off writing this article in the futile hope that iTunes 11 would be more than lipstick on a pig (apologies to pigs). It...

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Changing Time

  I’m sure anyone who’s affected already knows the clocks fell back an hour this morning. Like past years the tech that makes our lives easier wasn’t quit up to the task. But there seemed to be fewer...

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The OS Quest Trail Log #67: End of 2011 Edition

Despite the cliche, it is hard to believe 2011 is drawing to a close, probably only a memory by the time you read this. On the other hand, it’s still just one more month gone by so I’ll try to resist...

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