Tag Archives: Mac

Random reboots fixed?

Posted on 1/2/2013 by Ceffyl Aedui

For the past several months, I’ve had a disconcerting issue with my iMac. The iMac randomly tries to log me out. My old Mac Mini, which has been retired to the household media server, never had this problem. Googling the … Continue reading →

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Installing PloneSoftwareCenter on Plone 4

Posted on 11/11/2010 by Ceffyl Aedui

In addition to the Plone Help Center, I also wanted to have PloneSoftwareCenter for project management capabilities. The normal method for installing PloneSoftwareCenter is to add Products.PloneSoftwareCenter to the eggs = section of the zinstance/buildout.cfg file in the Plone installation. … Continue reading →

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Installing Plone 4 on Mac OS X 10.6 Server

Posted on 11/8/2010 by Ceffyl Aedui

Plone 4 is an open source content management system (CMS). It’s an elegant, extensible solution for document and content control. Large companies, including Apple, use Plone. I’m evaluating CMS solutions and was pleased to find that Plone has a Mac … Continue reading →

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Severely dead Mac

Posted on 2/11/2010 by Ceffyl Aedui

My poor little Mac died a painful death. What had apparently started weeks ago with random DVD drive openings, ended today with the machine going into an endless boot cycle. Today was not a good day for this to happen. … Continue reading →

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Undead Mac!

Posted on 1/1/2010 by Ceffyl Aedui

After blowing like eight hours trying to get my Mac to work, it finally started working randomly after a reboot. I tried booting from the OS disk to restore from the Time Machine backups. That is what the backups are … Continue reading →

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Dead Mac in the middle of the road…

Posted on 12/31/2009 by Ceffyl Aedui

I installed several updates on my desktop Mac last night: Java update, another minor application update, and then two update packages for a firewall. I wasn’t expecting any problems… of course that’s when you get trouble. The Mac will now … Continue reading →

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Day in the life of a Geek

Posted on 1/20/2009 by Ceffyl Aedui

I am working from home today using a virtual private network (VPN) connection. I can then connect to my desktop Windows work machine using remote access. All of these connections are done through browsers so it’s pretty straightforward. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading →

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