• Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: Setting up Outgoing Accounts with Mail.app

    Incoming and outgoing mail are handled a bit differently from one another in Mail.app. This is helpful as you can have multiple outgoing accounts even if you only have one incoming accounts, useful if you move between a lot of different networks.  To setup a new SMTP account, open the Accounts pane of the Mail.app preferences and choose Edit Server List… from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): field. At the Server List screen click on the “+” icon and enter a description for the account. This can be anything to help the end user remember what this account is meant for. Then type in the name or IP address of…

  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: Unzip Items From the Command Line

    Unzip items from the command line.  For example, if you wanted to unzip a file called myfile.zip you can use the following command: unzip myfile.zip Or if you wanted to unzip all the zipped files in a directory you could cd to said directory and run this command: unzip *.zip

  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: Monitor Bandwidth with SurplusMeter

    You can monitor bandwidth utilization with SurplusMeter, a free download from skoobysoft (source code also available).  This can be helpful if you are monitoring traffic on a computer behind some form of metered ISP connection. http://freespace.virgin.net/jeremy.dronfield/skoobysoft/utilities/utilities.html

  • Windows Server

    Windows Server: Set Permissions Using PowerShell

      Set-acl Set Access Control List permissions from on a file (or object). Syntax Set-Acl [-path] string[] [-aclObject] ObjectSecurity [-filter string] [-Include String] [-Exclude String] [-passThru] [-whatIf] [-confirm] [CommonParameters] Key -Path path Path to the item to be changed {accepts wildcards} -aclObject ObjectSecurity An ACL with the desired property values. -filter string A filter in the provider's format or language. The exact syntax of the filter (wildcard support etc) depends on the provider. Filters are more efficient than -include/-exclude, because the provider applies the filter when retrieving the objects, rather than having PowerShell filter the objects after they are retrieved. -include string Include only the specified items from the Path.…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: Most On-Time Airports in the Country

    Personally, I would remove #6 from this list and maybe replace it with Orlando and maybe swap out #3 with Burbank.  But here’s the top 10 most on-time airports in the country: 1 – Salt Lake City 2 – Portland 3 – Washington DC 4 – Tampa 5 – Minneapolis 6 – Boston 7 – Phoenix 8 – Seattle 9 – Baltimore 10 – San Diego