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Fixing an Unexpected Prompt Hostname in OS X
Tue, Feb 23 2010 15:07
| productivity, 10.6, hostname, software, automatic, prompt, apple
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In Mac OS X, you may have noticed if you use the Terminal that OS X automatically picks up what it thinks your hostname should be and sets it. This is nice, but the problem with it is if any utility uses your hostname to set config files, you'll have a different config file every time.
How to fix a "Strange Hostname" in an OS X Prompt
If you are getting varied prompts that look like this...:
rcogley@em60-123-194-6
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Set MBR Correctly to Backup Successfully with OS X Time Machine
Fri, Feb 12 2010 09:40
| 10.6, backup, software, Time Machine, osx, mbr, partition map, apple
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If you use Time Machine on OS X, you need to ensure your target drive is formatted with the correct Master Boot Record type. Time Machine requires either "Apple Partition Map" (works with PowerPC or Intel but is best for PowerPC) or "GUID Partition Table" (works with Intel).
There are a couple of problems which lead to this requirement biting people on the you-know-where.
Pre-formatted drives
Greylisting in Snow Leopard Server, or not
Fri, Oct 30 2009 13:19
| productivity, 10.6, tip, Postfix, Greylisting, software, mail, Snow Leopard Server
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Apple's OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6 implements Greylisting, an anti-spam technique based on forcing sending SMTP servers to "slow down" before they can deliver. This is great for reducing spam, but it also has the perhaps undesired effect of causing delivery delays. Sometimes really, really loooong delivery delays.
In SLS, when you enable anti-spam in your Mail server (which is postfix), greylisting