Category: Apple
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My new Macbook Pro arrived
… Restoring from TimeMachine… 1 hour and 16 minutes remaining… It took a weird route (Shanghai to Korea to Kazakhstan?!) but I finally got it. Yayyies. Later a blog post about what it’s like to migrate from a Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro again.
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Mac OS X: Mavericks causes CPU fan to run at full speed
I’ve noticed that, after upgrading from Mountain Lion to Mavericks on my borrowed MBA, my fan was running a lot… and loudly. As in, moving my mouse caused the fan to run at full speed. I tried rebooting (and unchecking “reopen apps at startup”), which helped for about 5 minutes. I tried closing down apps…
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Macbook Air vs Macbook Pro
While my 2010 Macbook Pro is at the Apple Repair shop for a (most likely) faulty GPU I borrowed a Macbook Air from Christophe. These are my random thoughts about it: It’s light. Very light. My bag is now too big and I can barely feel it hanging at my shoulder. It’s light. Very light.…
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NOAH Short
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Best charger. Ever.
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Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.
5 or so days ago, this error suddenly popped up: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder. I have a Raspberry Pi, acting as TimeMachine (using afp/Bonjour/Netatalk). There are several things I tried to solve this, including messing in the sparebundle from Linux (chowning) and deleting my TM .plist. This…
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Home made TimeMachine
This. Used my Raspberry Pi, with an USB disk as TimeMachine. Another disk as NAS/storage. It’s just quite slow… Not sure whether it’s my WiFi or RPi that can’t keep up. But for now, it’s working.
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OpenVPN: Can’t assign requested address
For no clear reason, OpenVPN on Mac with Tunnelblick (any version, had this problem for a few years already) results in these kind of error messages (and refuses to connect): 2013-02-05 17:44:31 write UDPv4: Can’t assign requested address (code=49) 2013-02-05 17:44:33 write UDPv4: Can’t assign requested address (code=49) This seems to appear more often when…
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Defcon 18: Pwned By the owner