I had quite a morning. One of my colleagues was updating a piece of software with a critical security patch on a remote server. The installer creates a new directory with the version number in a target location. However, not long after they started, I received an email asking me to check the permissions on…
A bug in the power management daemon powerd in macOS causes high CPU usage around 100-105%. On notebook Macs, this greatly impacts battery life and creates a lot of heat and fan noise.
Alternative title: “How I Wasted Five Hours of my Life Doing Something That Should Have Been Really Simple”. A few months ago, my original Apple AirPort Time Capsule, purchased October 2009, finally bit the dust. The original 1TB hard disk drive built into the network router + wireless access point + file share server device…
There’s a fairly recent issue with PeopleSoft’s nVision where the process goes to a nondescript ‘Error’ state after about ten seconds of ‘Processing’. The Process Monitor’s message log is not very helpful in this case (which it rarely is for delivered processes), returning only two log entries:
I recently abandoned macOS as a server solution (future blog post about that BS) and have switched to Ubuntu. The straw that broke the camels back for me was a reliable VPN solution that didn’t involve OpenVPN. Don’t get me wrong, OpenVPN is fine, but the lack of built-in support for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS…