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Oh the joys of plumbing problems
Friday night as we were about to goto dinner, my wife tells me that she sees some water running down the driveway. I took a look, saw a pool of water near the water shut off, shut off the water to the house and asked her to call a plumber. After I turned the water off, I could still hear the water running, so I knew there was an issue between the house and the street. I shut the water off at the street and the fun began!
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Another MacHeist Bundle and More Tempers
I've waffled on what I think about bundled software like that being offered at MacHeist at a steep discount. My latest ramblings have been supportive of it. As a consumer, it's great to get lots of stuff for just a little amount of money. Will I use everything in the bundle? Unlikely. However, I've used some of the programs I've bought here and there. For the most part, I might use 1 or 2 programs, but just in case I have a use for something else, I know I have it. For instance, today I used GraphicConverter to convert some graphics; I would not have bought GraphicConverter at full price (the awful UI really puts me off).
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Fighting SSL and winning
I'm in the process of setting up a Zimbra server for work and as part of it, I'm documenting configuration for all types of machines and devices we use. One of the devices is a Palm OS Treo (755p in particular). I've done a bit of research and found that the Palm OS Treos don't work properly with wildcard SSL certificates. So, I got my boss to approve a GoDaddy single domain certificate for $30; I assured him that this was needed for the Treos and he didn't have a problem with that.
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Documentation made easy
About a month ago, I wrote about a program called ScreenSteps for creating documentation for work. I bought the program because nothing else was out there that I could find (I'm not ready to do video documentation), but had major reservations in that the app was created using a cross platform tool. I've been using ScreenSteps to create lots of documentation, but have grown increasingly frustrated at it as it is quirky. For instance, it doesn't do auto spell checking since it doesn't use standard Mac based text editing, re-ordering steps don't always work, and the dialogs look like crap.