Scott Gruby’s Blog

After a lot of work, I pretty much have Leopard working the way I want. I just went to software update and saw a Login and Keychain Update. Apple’s support article says:
The Login & Keychain Update 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is recommended for all Leopard installations. It addresses issues you may encounter [...]

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I started my Leopard upgrade by doing a backup with SuperDuper! as who knows what can happen when installing software. I decided to do an archive and install as that would preserve my info and get me up and going faster. Well, that seems to have been a mistake. For whatever reason, after I restarted, [...]

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Yesterday, my mother-in-law had a cable modem installed so that she could video conference with us and see our son (she just got a new 20″ iMac the other day). Video conferencing is easier said than done with NAT routers. I’ve used a Linux box as a router for a long time so I have [...]

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Last night after I read to our son and was ready to put him to sleep, I kept calling my wife to come up and say goodnight, but she couldn’t here me. So, I told our dog, Marley, to “get Janessa”. He went downstairs and then I hear Janessa say “did you come and get [...]

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While I’m quite happy that the fires haven’t affected us (except for the smoke and particulates in the air), it saddens me to see the great loss that so many people have suffered. We returned to our house on Wednesday as the fire threat lessoned and my parents’ 2 bedroom condo is a bit small [...]

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Sunday afternoon while my wife and I were running errands, we noticed smoke to the north and my wife found out there was a fire. Later that evening, I walked into the garage and smelled the fires; that’s when I knew things weren’t good. We were glued to the TV watching what was happening. Monday [...]

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I previously wrote about the GSM buzz on my speakers and decided today that maybe my 10 year old Apple Design Speakers might be part of the problem; a lot has changed since I got those speakers. I picked up a pair of Altec Lansing VS2320 speakers. I plugged them in and haven’t heard a [...]

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About 2 weeks ago, my dad brought his iMac G4 (the goose neck one) over for me to look at as it kept kernel panicking. After examining it, I pretty much determined that it was toast and time for a new one. My father saw this coming and actually wanted to replace it with an [...]

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I currently sync my Mac with Google calendar using Spanning Sync and sync my iPhone. Occasionally I get sync conflicts that I have to resolve, but today, I got a dialog that was completely unnecessary.

The conflict resolver is a background app; so it simply didn’t have to do anything and not bother me. Oh well, [...]

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Awhile ago, someone mentioned the concept of greylisting to fight spam. The concept is that the first time an email server connects to my mail server, my server would reject that connection for a delay message saying that the server should try again later, typically 4 hours later. The premise is that most spam servers [...]

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