• Sad (tech) day at the Gruby house

    We've been using a Mac Mini as a media center for a little while now and haven't used the TiVo in weeks. So, today, I decided to unplug the TiVo. The TiVo has been our friend for over 5 years and has undergone a few surgeries to swap out the hard drive.

  • Open Directory and DNS

    As I've written before, Open Directory on Mac OS X doesn't like it when DNS is messed up. It requires forward and reverse DNS to point to the same place. Our Open Directory server was running fine, but today we moved DNS to a different machine.

  • How (not) to install a dishwasher

    The below steps are what I did to replace our ailing dishwasher. They should NOT be followed by anyone and your dishwasher should be installed by a professional. However, please note that the $100 install charge that Home Depot and Lowes charges may not cover your install if something is not simple.

  • Another fight with OS X Server

    It seems that every few weeks, I have another fight with OS X server. I still run Leopard Server as most of our Xserves are PPC and won't run Snow Leopard, so these issues may have been addressed. I was moving our wiki and our sites from one server to another and that's where the fun started. It appeared that the setting for where the wiki would be located wouldn't stick. There appeared to be an issue with LDAP.