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The Macintosh or Mac is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

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Can I copy Windows XP's CD to a FireWire HD and install from it?

With Mac OS X, I can copy the DVD to a FireWire drive and use it to install on many different machines. I want to do the same with Windows XP. Is there a way to copy the CD to a FireWire drive and have it be bootable? Ideally, I'd like to perform…
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Outlook for Mac, Active Directory DNS and DDOS

Edit: This is not a question about DDOS, but a question about how to resolve a technical issue impacting only Mac clients of Outlook Anywhere. Problem and solution are are now known, but I cannot link it here for some stupid reason of stackexchange…
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How to hide a partition on the internal disk on Mac OS X

I have just connected an external RAID1 enclosure (a Lacie Quadro2) through FireWire800 interface to my iMac 24. I copied all my internal "Machintosh HD" to the new disk, setted the system to use the external disk as Startup Disk, the volume is…
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Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) OS Specific package installation

Faced with the recent Java kerfuffle imposed by Apple's silent updates I am looking for a solution to install .pkg files specific to the OS version. Apple continues to provide Java updates for 10.6, but for 10.7+ we need to get the file from Oracle.…
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Is there a tool to log internet connectivity on a mac?

My mac runs as a server with an dyndns ip. To work properly, it must be connected to the internet all the time. but unfortunately it seems that it is not connected a lot of times during the day. So I need a tool that checks i.e. once per minute if…
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File shares for Mac users

The main file shares on our network are currently hosted by old Apple XServes. I had planned to replace some of these with Windows shares as I have better hardware available but have been told this is likely to cause issues with some of our Mac…
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Office 2011, Mac OS Lion, Excel creates temporary file on Windows server 2008, SMB share how to stop?

I have an issue with Macs and a windows SMB share, when using Excel 2011. If I open an excel document from the windows share it will create a "Ghost file" starting with ~$ then the full filename e.g :: If I opened testdoc.xlsx a ghost file will be…
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How can I prevent Mac Mail from connecting via Exchange ActiveSync while still allowing my other devices?

Running Office365 Exchange for a corporation, I am unable to enforce any policy on Mac Mail when it's using an active sync connection. It actually does not show up as a device (I even looked at this through PowerShell) and thus no filter/policy can…
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Can't access mamp server with internal IP

Running MAMP 2.1.1 on my 10.7.2 OS X Mac Pro. I can access server if I choose a port (such as the default 8888) but changing it to port 80 causes it to not work, except with localhost. This used to work before! I was running MAMP with virtualhosts…
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Odd permissions issues on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Macs OS 10.6/.7/.8

*I have four macs that use a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to share files as part of their workflow, each user has their own folder and completed jobs are dropped in an archive folder when complete. Each user has an AD account administered by a…
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Unable to bind OSX 10.5 and 10.4 to Active Directory 2008

Anyone have experience binding a 10.5+ workstation to a 2008 active directory structure. We tested this functionality in our test domain prior to upgrading and saw no issues. Now that we've upgraded the production environment, we're getting…
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Mac OSX 10.7 server with 10.6.8 clients - old network accounts work, now ones created since May do not

I have a Mac OS 10.7 server, and a number of 10.6.8 clients in a school. For the last year and half, network accounts could log into the clients with no problem. There is a set of presets in Workgroup Manager for correct default Group (staff vs…
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Wake on Demand for Apache server in OS X 10.8

Mac OS X Mountain Lion does not have a Web Sharing box in the Sharing system prefs menu. It is thoroughly discussed on the web that the Apache server is available, and that it can be turned on manually in the command line, or by using a convenient…
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Are there Thunderbolt drive enclosures?

The only Thunderbolt hard-drive adapter that I've found so far is part of the Seagate GoFlex system. I am surprised no one seems to offer drive enclosures with Thunderbolt yet. At issue here is fast external hard-drives for Mac Book and Mac mini…
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gitolite mac don't add new user to authorized_keys

I installed gitolite and every thing works fine for me as admin. But when I'd like to add add a new user the new user can't connect to the server. After I looked into the file authorized_keys I saw that the new user wasn't added to the file. During…
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