December 6, 2011
How To: Remove Vista AntiVirus 2012 Vista AntiVirus 2012, also known as Windows XP Home Security 2012 is one of the viruses/malware programs running around that masquerades as an anti-virus program. Unfortunately it’s not. It uses various browser holes to install itself and then pretty much disables the computer until the user puts their credit [...]
October 21, 2011
From the command line: sudo mdutil -E / sudo mdutil -i on / The amount of time this will take depends on how many files are on your hard drive.
October 21, 2011
How To: Manually update OS X time from Command Line Sometimes OS X’s time and date gets out of sync with the real world, and using the option “Set date and time automatically:” doesn’t always work. You can use this command in terminal to update it manually: ntpdate -u The server address can be any [...]
August 2, 2011
Most users don’t need to use this command, but it’s very helpful for web developers and network admins to troubleshoot issues with web sites. This command is run via terminal. On Leopard (10.6) and Snow Leopard (10.7): (as root or admin user) dscacheutil -flushcache On all other version (10.0 – 10.4): (as root or admin [...]
July 18, 2011
How To: Fix iPad loosing wireless network One of the issues being reported with the Apple iPad is that it looses it’s wireless network connection and then has a very hard time reconnecting. I ran across this bug in the field where I had 6 iPads scattered around a football field, and two (or more) [...]