There are lots fo reasons for missing disk space; most are well known. Here’s one that I’ve just found and have not seen elsewhere.   I have 10 volumes I keep mounted (boot drive; photo work; video work; programming; data and so on) and a couple of shelves of bare drives I use for backup […]

Most people think that network attached storage (NAS) is just a box with drives in it attached to your local network. In fact, NAS is a computer, minus the monitor and keyboard. As such, it can be incredibly powerful, containing its own CPU and memory. I recently found another good use for my NAS in […]

Here’s the bad news: YES, the badguys already have your email, and any number of your passwords. There’s a good chance they also have your Social Security number, your home address, your phone and other stuff.   How you ask? Well, it’s very unlikely that YOU have been hacked, and extremely likely that they got […]

The other day, I moved a client’s domain from one ISP to another; from A to B. That involved moving their email addresses as well, while keeping them identical between the previous ISP “A” and the new ISP “B”. Convenient as that is for the client, there’s one issue: all their email prior to the […]

OK: take this FWIW: It’s been my experience that better data cables are worth the extra cost, up to the point where some sleaze tries to sell you solid silver USB cables “for audio” for $125. I do know that “real” CAT 6 ethernet cables are more reliable than the generic (and some not so […]

(This is my answer to someone who was concerned about durability, size and speed, when thinking about switching to an SSD.)   Durability: pretty much forever, based on write cycles. I have a 2 year old Samsung Evo 840, which has been on 15 hours a day, 365 days a year.Samsung uses a wear-leveling indicator […]

I’m an old guy, and can’t seem to break my habit of using iTunes to do my updates, instead of Over The Air, the way everyone else does it.  If you’re part of the OTA crowd, you can quit reading now. I’ve seen (with more regularity than I’d hoped) these two problems:   1) Often […]

PRINT THIS PAGE, since you’ll be quitting Safari to do this, and the page will go away, eh?  🙂  I suggest reading thru all this before getting started… ___________________________________________   Here’s the problem: your Safari bookmarks are all messed up. In my case, repeated syncings (and probably stupidity on my part) ended up with 10,700 […]

Just an anecdote, to tuck away in case you ever need it. I have a 256GB SSD on my internal SATA bus, which I use for my (Parallels) virtual machines. Today I decided to update Windows 10, and away we went, on a long download because I foolishly opted for developer builds a year or so […]

I was using a sparsebundle to backup my OSX drive on an always-mounted external drive. I did that because I (mistakenly) thought that would prevent the OS from seeing the extra OS.) Well, I just learned that if the drive the sparsebundle is on is a mounted drive, then the OS sees the sparsebundle as […]