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Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 Problems

2008-05-01 –

Problems with Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, including missing menus or inability to find the dvd.

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smtp auth, postfix+sasl+pam – authentication failure

2006-05-01 –

When using Postfix with SASL authentication, the service field of the SASL authentication attempt will be filled with ’smtp’. Thus, on my system an attempt to run the command testsaslauthd -u alan -p mypassword -s smtp would fail, yet testsaslauthd -u alan -p mypassword would succeed. It appeared that the pam service ’smtp’ was not [...]

By Alan J Castonguay | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged | Comments (3)

Install OSX without DVD over Firewire

2006-01-20 –

Goal is to install OS 10.4 Tiger from DVD on an older apple laptop that lacks a dvd drive. We don’t have an external firewire DVD enclosure. However, all macs with firewire can emulate an external harddrive enclosure, so we’ll install to that. We just need someone else’s dvd-equipped macmini to do the install.
Firstly, connect [...]

By Alan J Castonguay | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Hotsyncing a Sony Clie under Linux

2005-12-22 –

Using udev, hotplug, and pilot-xfer to hotsync a usb Sony Clie without manually starting a sync application on the computer.

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