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Fix for Mac black screen with cursor

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

Once every few months one of our Mac Pro towers goes to a black or blank screen but the mouse cursor shows. Nothing will wake it, or get it to …

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See running outgoing processes

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

Run this command in Terminal to see running outgoing processes: netstat -at |grep -i est

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Adobe error 16 fix

December 19, 2018December 20, 2018 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

We get this error every once in a while. The fix? Open Terminal, paste in this command: sudo rm /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/SLStore/Adobe01.bmp Fixes it every time.

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Mac Defender malware

September 2, 2016September 2, 2016 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

If you see this browser redirect, do not panic. Quit your browser to make sure you don’t download the malware. Another reason to use the fastest, safest browser: Firefox. Also, …

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Fix for mySQL LaunchDaemon issue

January 2, 2016January 2, 2016 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

Our mySQL install kept giving us trouble, even though the install went fine, after restarts the mySQL database would not be available. What fixed it? We changed ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysql.plist to this: …

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Awesome workflow for To Do Lists

January 2, 2016September 15, 2020 - by Barry Bourland - Leave a Comment

We finally found a workflow that works really well for text-based to do lists. Here it is: We use BBEdit on our Mac Pro towers for our multiple text files, …

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iPhone sync error: “another sync client is already running”

July 14, 2010July 14, 2010 - by Barry Bourland - 3 Comments.

We tried to sync and restore on iPhone 3G last night to no avail: “Another sync client is already running” The fix was a permission change to 777 on the …

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