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 [...]

Thunderbird doesn’t delete messages off server I had a little bit of a weird issue – Thunderbird would not delete emails from the Gmail server even though it was being told to do so. To make things even more confusing, one account worked fine, while three other’s didn’t. I found out that the accounts need [...]

Here is the command via terminal to find the Serial Number for OS X Server. sudo /System/Library/ServerSetup/serverserialnumberutil -get Out put will be the serial number, the name and company that it’s registered too. This only works on OS X Server 10.6 or higher.

“Can’t Upload Image, directory missing” message comes up in WordPress when the uploads directory is missing. In older versions of WordPress, or in a one click install from a company such as DreamHost, the entire path was coded into the WordPress settings. To fix in WP versions below 3.0: 1.) Login to Admin Control Panel [...]

For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]