David LeBer reBeLog

It looks like its backup week here at rebelog headquarters…
Apparently TimeMachine uses the MAC (MAC as in “Media Access Control” not Mac as in “Macintosh”) address of your ethernet port to identify its backups. If you change your motherboard (like I just did with my MBP) then your MAC address changes and Time Machine will [...]

I’ve been using Super Duper! for, like, ever (and therein lies the root of my problem.)
I’ve been using SD! to backup my laptop to an external LaCie drive every night. I’ve been doing this since said laptop was an Aluminum G4. I’ve been doing this since the default partition scheme was “Apple Partition Map”. I’ve [...]

After installing Leopard on my MBP I noticed that Mail wouldn’t allow me to do “Entire Message” searches. The “Entire Message” button was greyed out.
I tried rebuilding all of my mailboxes in Mail and forcing an index by calling:
mdimport ~/Library/Mail
Neither helped.
It turns out the MBP’s boot drive had somehow been added [...]

I don’t talk much about my dark early days in technology, but lets just say that I know my way around a soldering iron and I remember a time when the only reason you needed heatsink compound was on a TO-3 style power transistor (and it was white and came pre-slathered over a piece of [...]

Apache in OS X Server has a feature1 called the web performance cache which is the bane of my existence. It has limited use (mostly for large volume static sites) but it is enabled by default for every new site you create, and enabling it for just one site can effect the behavior of every [...]