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Mac Permission Problems

Posted on March 1, 2012 by jan

If you’re trying to access a Windows Server 2008 R2 (it’s probably the same with older/newer versions) file share with your Mac and you’re seeing this error: The folder Documents can’t be open because you don’t have permission to see … Continue reading →

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Stuck Evolution Calendars

Posted on March 15, 2011 by jan

If you have some calendars in Evolution which won’t disappear when you try to delete them, you can use gconf-editor (or gconftool-2 from the command line) to delete those calendars from the configuration. The information about your calendars is being … Continue reading →

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Synergy on Gnome/Fedora

Posted on February 9, 2011 by jan

Quick note: If you use Synergy to control multiple machines with the same keyboard/mouse combo and your keyboard layout doesn’t work properly on the client, try matching the list of available layouts on both machines. In my case I had … Continue reading →

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Synology USB Station 2

Posted on February 2, 2011 by jan

For several reasons – ranging from severe lack of space to urgent need of proper backup procedures – I finally bought one of these nice 2TB external hard drive monsters. In order to make it thoroughly geeky, I also installed … Continue reading →

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